To all Staff:
Thank you for all your dedication and commitment with the school during this difficult time. Thank you for putting yourselves at risk while doing your job to help our children.
Anonymous, Year 11
To Year 10 Staff:
Thank you for all your hard work during these difficult and unusual times.
Shoshana, Year 10
To Year 8 Staff:
Thank you for all the support online and for an informative parents evening.
Avi, Year 8
To Miss Perry:
You are the best English teacher!! She cares so so much about our class doing well and she is willing to help us with anything.
Anonymous, Year 11
To all Staff:
Thank you all for going above and beyond in looking after our children and ensuring they are nurtured and educated to the highest level. Even during lockdown, you have kept our boys focused and driven with their studies. You have engaged them and given them not only educational opportunities but extra-curricular activities and pastoral support despite the challenges we are all facing. It's impossible to single out individual members of staff as we are grateful to you all and don't want to miss anyone out. Thank you very much for all you have done and all you continue to do for our boys as well as all the other students in your care.
Noah/Leo/Coby, Year 13
To all the Teachers:
Thank you to all the amazing teachers at Yavneh. Honestly you have been incredible for my son in year 10 and daughter in year 13. The Nahon family
Rebecca, Year 10
To Mrs Lazarus:
Thank you for being the best English teacher. You always motivate, inspire, challenge and believe in me. Thank you. From Lily x
Lily Barnett, Year 8
To Miss Newstead:
Thank you for inspiring me. You have not only been a fantastic PE teacher but also a great Head of Year. You always motivate me, challenge me and congratulate my progress. Thank you for being the best teacher. Olivia x
Olivia Barnett, Year 11
To Mrs Waxman:
Thank you so much for keeping our lessons always interesting and fun throughout this very difficult year. I think you’ve helped our entire class improve, and I’ll always enjoy each lesson!
Anonymous, Year 10
To Mrs Waxman:
You are always funny, encouraging and helpful and always make learning interesting. I love English and although its better when we are all in school, I want to say thank you for making sure it is still a lesson I really look forward to for remote learning. Thank you.
Anonymous, Year 10
To Mr Fink:
Thanks for everything you do for us.
Charlie, Year 8
To Miss Newstead:
Thank you for being a really supportive Head of Year and going above and beyond to support and ensure pupil wellbeing and learning. We really appreciate your hard work and dedication!
Anonymous, Year 11
To Mr Dobrik:
Thank you so much for all of your hard work during these times. I absolutely enjoy your lessons and you’re my favourite teacher. Appreciate you!!!!
Anonymous, Year 11
To Miss Lermer:
Miss Lermer is a caring and understanding teacher with the interests of her students prioritised in her work. She is approachable and supportive to those that need, and has been available during the covid period. Her friendly and kind personality has helped build up a very strong and reliable relationship with her class. As well as being her form tutor, my daughter has also been taught geography by Miss Lermer and clearly been inspired by her to succeed in hopefully achieving a good grade in a geography GCSE. My daughter is even considering taking A level in this subject.
Anonymous, Year 11
To all Year 10 and Year 13 Teaching and Pastoral Staff:
What a lovely opportunity to say thank you to every member of the teaching, pastoral and support staff at Yavneh College. The dedication and support the children have received has been outstanding and the honesty and openness of each teacher has been enlightening. Online lessons are engaging and whenever it has been needed the individual teachers have made themselves available outside of lesson times to support. Thank you
Anonymous, Year 10
To Mrs Lazarus:
Thank you for making your lessons enjoyable and caring about all your pupils. You have taught all my children at Yavneh with the same care and compassion for all of them.
Thank you for inspiring them.
Kim, Year 8
To Mr Lewis, the Senior Leaders and all of the Staff:
We are so lucky and proud that our child got a place at your wonderful school. He is so happy. He loves going to school and his biggest disappointment with Lockdown is not being able to come to school. His teachers have gone above and beyond to not only teach during Lockdown, but also check that he is ok. The school should be so proud of the warm family and community that it has created. Thank you to all of the staff for all of their hard work in providing this outstanding education and thank you to Mr Lewis and all of the Senior Leaders for leading the school in such difficult times.
Anonymous, Year 7
To Mr Cohn:
Thank you for making your Jewish Studies lessons so fun and enjoyable. Our son was not so positive about JS when he started the school, but you have changed this and he comes home so excited about your lessons. Thank you for your clear care and passion that you put into your lessons.
Anonymous, Year 7
To Mr Farrel:
Our son started at Yavneh in September, but never really loved PE. Your motivation and ways of teaching and making PE so fun has inspired him and he now says PE is one of his favourite lessons!! Thank you so much.
Anonymous, Year 7
To Miss Chalice:
Thank you so much for truly caring and inspiring our son. He is lucky that you teach him and are also his Form Tutor. He thinks the world of you and that is because you have shown him you truly care and want to help him achieve his best. Thank you for going above and beyond in helping him to settle into secondary school.
Anonymous, Year 7
To Miss Perry:
Thank you so much for inspiring our son and making him so much more positive about learning English since starting at Yavneh College. He is so lucky to have an English teacher who gets and cares about him. Your care and encouragement has had such a positive influence on him. Thank you
Anonymous, Year 7
To Mr Leyton:
Thank you so much for everything you do and have done for all of us. Your hard work has not gone unnoticed and we appreciate it.
Joshua Leaman, Year 9
To Merret:
Thank you so much for all of your hard work over this lockdown and for making our lessons so interesting and fun. We appreciate everything you are doing.
Dahlia Leaman, Year 10
To Mrs Fernandes:
Thanks so much for being such a sweet, enthusiastic and inspiring teacher. Our son has loved all your classes to the extent that he is now even considering taking French as a GCSE subject
Anonymous, Year 8
To Mrs D Jacobson:
Mrs Jacobson has been very supportive to my daughter during these difficult times. However busy her schedule, she always makes time for her students and continues to inspire them each and every day. When schools were open last term she spent as much time as she could with the students face to face and now that interactions & learning is on line - she continues to encourage and support them from a distance. Thank you so very much for all your hard work. It is so appreciated
Lisa, Year 12
To Mr Levine:
Thank you to Mr Levine for being a great form tutor.
He makes the lessons enjoyable and interesting.
Thank you to him!
Anonymous, Year 7
To Miss Stevens:
We just wanted to let you know that Avi Notowicz absolutely loves his Biology lessons with you. So much so, that you have inspired him to take this subject for A Level! Thank you for everything you do for him and for the rest of the class!
Keep well
Anonymous, Year 11
To Mrs Waxman:
We just wanted to let you know that Avi Notowicz absolutely loves his English lessons with you. Although he is fairly new to your class, you give him such confidence. Thank you for everything you do for him and for the rest of the class!
Keep well
Anonymous, Year 11
To Mrs Moses:
We just wanted to let you know that Avi Notowicz absolutely loves his Maths lessons with you. Thank you for everything you do for him and for the rest of the class!
Keep well
Anonymous, Year 11
To Miss Lermer:
We just wanted to let you know that Avi Notowicz absolutely loves his Geography lessons with you. It is his favourite subject! Thank you for everything you do for him and for the rest of the class!
Keep well
Anonymous, Year 11
To Mrs Chweidan and your amazing team of Teachers:
Thank you so much to Mrs Chweidan and your amazing team of teachers for all of the hard work and dedication you’ve shown towards year 7 over the past 5 months. It’s not easy integrating a new year of students under these challenging circumstances and your efforts are greatly recognised and appreciated.
Anonymous, Year 7
To all Year 9 Teachers:
Thanks so much to all of incredible year 9 teachers for all of your hard work and dedication over the last few weeks and during the previous lockdown. My daughter is learning so much from home despite all of the distractions around her and my husband and I are truly grateful for all of your efforts.
Anonymous, Year 9
To Mrs Waxman:
Thank you to everyone and a special mention to Mrs Waxman for continuing to make sure we all make lots of progress in our learning and for all the feedback that helps us all get better
Anonymous, Year 10
To Mrs Max:
Thank you so much for all of the inspiring work that you and IJE are doing with the pupils. Our children's favourite lesson is IJE and they love all of the extra activities that you run. The Holocaust Memorial Day information that you have sent is fantastic and shows that Yavneh is not just interested in Jewish genocide, but teaches our children about other societies as well. Thank you for all that you do.
Anonymous, Year 7
To Ms Smyth, Mr Goldstein and Mr Smith:
Thank you so much for all the help and guidance you have given me this year. Having not done business for GCSE, I really appreciate all the help you have given me. I am really enjoying this subject and I will continue to work hard. Thank you very much.
Harry, Year 12
To Mrs Waxman and Mrs Moses:
Thank you so much for making the live lessons so interactive and meaningful and helping all of us through online school :))
Anonymous, Year 10
To Mr Layton:
Thanks for being understanding about the current situation.
Anonymous, Year 9
To Mr Klien:
Thanks for making it so that I feel comfortable asking questions in your lessons
Anonymous, Year 9
To 6th Form Teaching and Pastoral Staff:
Thank you for all you have done throughout the school but particularly for the current year 13. It is a time of real uncertainly for them and particularly because of the lack of final clarity around the A level grading. The online lessons, pastoral support and engagement with the students is second to none and they'll go on to their next stages knowing that Yavneh could not have supported them better through the pandemic
Debbie Bezalel, Year 13
To all Staff:
Thank you to all the staff who are working with year 8 to help make this lockdown process as smooth as possible - education is carrying on and support is there ... well done Yavneh
Anonymous, Year 8
To all Staff:
I want to thank everyone at Yavneh from Mr Lewis through to the security team. Both my child and i have been fully informed instantly as to any changes to structure or learning and what is expected of my daughter who is continuing to learn whilst studying at home. This in itself is an impressive feat. At the same time there is compassion for circumstances and illness etc. I am impressed with the schools ability to adapt to the constant changes and amendments to our current living conditions. It’s almost the only certainty, especially for my daughter, in a very uncertain time.
Anonymous, Year 8
To all the Teachers:
Just wanted to say a big thank you to Yavneh College’s teachers and staff for all their hard work and help during this period. It is really appropriated.
Yael and Natalie, Year 10
To Mrs Lazarus:
I just wanted to say Thank you for everything you do to support not only the children but the parents during this very difficult time. You are so easy to talk to and only want the best for your students. You are an amazing and special teacher and a massive credit to the school.
With thanks as always
Anonymous, Year 11
To Mrs Jacobson:
To the most inspirational, motivational and kindest teacher. You simplify texts and concepts.
Just to say, your good deeds and goodness do not go unnoticed.
In addition, your words of wisdom are appreciated by kids and parents alike during these times.
Sadie, Year 11
To all Ellie's Teachers:
From Ellie and myself we wanted to say A very big thank you to all the teachers for all their continued hard work in providing on line lessons. Ellie is absolutely flourishing from all the lessons and shall continue to do so.
Ellie Brickman, Year 8
To all the Teachers:
A huge thank you to all the teachers involved in the schooling of my daughter Davina. You have given her incentive to wake up each morning and giving her a full day of study. You have enabled her to keep motivated and not slacken off in this very important academic year.
Davina Albert, Year 11
To all the teaching staff especially Mrs Lazarus:
To all the teaching staff who have supported my son over the last year - just a HUGE thankyou to each and every one of you!
These are such hard times and we truly thank you for everything!
An extra special thanks to Mrs Lazarus who manages to always bring out some enthusiasm in my son which goes a very long way
Jo, Year 10
To all Teachers:
Without exception this school has stepped up. Since last March, my son has been in the same routine as at school on line every lesson and the vast majority are live. I don’t know how you do it. Thanks to every teacher that has made this happen. Nothing but praise.
Anonymous, Year 10
To Mrs Chweidan:
I want to say a massive thank you for listening and supporting not only the children but me as a parent. You are prompt at dealing with all emails and endeavour to help however you can. I’m so appreciative to everyone involved for supporting and giving year 7 a fantastic school day albeit via teams learning during covid! Here’s to a brighter future
Anonymous, Year 7
To all the Teachers:
Thank you for continuing to teach and support my child through difficult times. I'm aware that teachers have their own challenges at home whilst also trying to teach.
Anonymous, Year 9
To all my Teachers:
I would like to thank all of Uri’s teachers for helping him believe in himself. Their encouragement has motivated Uri to work towards his full potential.
I couldn’t ask for more supportive teachers. Thank you
Uri Elias, Year 12
To all Teachers:
Just wanted to thank all his teachers for the quick response to teaching in these very difficult times.
Stay safe and well
Josh/Tracey, Year 13
To all my Year 7 Teachers:
Thank you for all my live lessons and all your hard work!
Harry D, Year 7
To Mr Ladd:
Thank you for your expertise, years of dedication, keeping a sharp eye and your humour throughout the highs and lows!
Anonymous, Year 13
To Mr Bentley:
Thank you for inspiring our son in Maths. You make the lessons interesting and explain concepts so clearly and are a really nice guy too so the kids really enjoy your lessons.
Aaron Geoghegan/Naomi Weissler, Year 12
To all Teachers:
Both my children are Yavneh College both my husband and I have been extremely overwhelmed by the support and online learning that the teachers are providing for our children amongst these unforeseen circumstances they I’m sure are juggling with their own lives and providing our children with stable online lessons ! Thank you to them all for a excellent job from all at Yavneh College.
Anonymous, Year 9
To Mrs Linton:
Thank you for all you do. So creative and students love all you do
Anonymous, Year 8
To Mr Dobrik:
Thank you so much for inspiring our son in History. You have been encouraging, informative and an excellent teacher and have nurtured a love of history in our son.
Aaron Geoghegan/Naomi Weissler, Year 12
To all the Teachers:
To all the teachers of yavneh college. Youve surpassed all of our expectations over the last 10 months. I’m sure this has been the most challenging time of your teaching careers and myself and my family can’t thank you enough for helping keep them motivated and engaged with their work. I have children in years 8 and 11 and both these years have come with different challenges but they’re getting through it one day at a time with your help. They can’t wait to get into school for some face to face work
Anonymous, Year 8