Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School
| Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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Egerton Road , , N16 6UB | |
| Information | |
| Type | Voluntary aided school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Charedi Judaism |
| Established | 1942 |
| Local authority | Hackney |
| Department for Education URN | 133599 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Mrs Rachel Pinter |
| Principal | Rabbi Abraham Pinter |
| Gender | Girls |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School is a Jewish secondary school for girls, located in the Stamford Hill area of the London Borough of Hackney in England.
The school was founded in 1942 as an independent school with separate sections for boys and girls, and with junior and senior departments. The girls' senior department became a voluntary aided school in September 2005. At this time the school moved into new accommodation. Several notable figures attended the formal opening of the new school building, including Tony Blair, Lord Levy, Gerald Ronson, and Richard Desmond.[1] In 2007 the school was top of the Department for Education's school's "value added" scoring system for pupil progress.[2]
The school primarily serves the Charedi Jewish community of Stamford Hill. The Charedi community do not have access to television, the internet or other media, and members of the community aim to lead modest lives governed by the codes of Torah observance. In 2008 it emerged that nine pupils had refused to sit a Key Stage 3 Shakespeare test on The Merchant of Venice because they felt the character of Shylock was antisemitic.[3]
In 2013, The Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Exam board launched an investigation into alleged exam malpractice at the school after reports that teachers had blacked out questions on a GCSE science exam paper. [4]
References
- ^ "The JC Power 100". Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ^ Paton, Graeme (1 March 2007). "Comprehensive that's in a different class". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ "School falls down league tables after pupils boycott 'anti-Semitic' Shakespeare | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. 2008-02-29. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ^ "Jewish faith school caught censoring questions on science exam papers". secularism.org.uk/. 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
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