Judaism - 2024

Year 1 and Year 4 both focussed on the festival of Succot. 

Succot begins on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishri, four days after Yom Kippur. The festival of Succot has two purposes: firstly, it is an autumn harvest festival. In Temple times Jews used to make a pilgrimage to the Temple for the harvest, which led to Succot being recognised as one of three ‘foot’ festivals along with Pesach and Shavuot.  Secondly, it is the commemoration of the Jewish people’s journey from Mount Sinai, where they received the Torah, through the desert to the land of Israel forty years later. God protected the Jewish people from the sun with clouds, so Jews remember this by building a succah.

Year 1 and Year 4 made their own succah using shoe boxes and then celebrated their learning by showcasing their work.

All the children made Tu B’Shvat cake which they tasted whilst looking at the examples of succahs around the hall.