June 25, 2014 by Ally K (’14) (Students) Bea F (’14) (Students) Gigi B (’14) (Students) Sabrina B (’14) (Students)

This week, we are graduating from the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital. Over the course of our final year at JPDS-NC, our teachers prepared us for middle school. Even though our workload expanded from fifth grade to sixth grade, our teachers made it possible for us to adapt to this change easily. […]

• Student Stories

June 23, 2014 by Ronit Greenstein (Faculty and Staff)

Activities include guest speakers from NOAA and Rock Creek Conservancy, School Compost and Reduce Plastics Campaigns, and Environmental Skits The JPDS-NC Green Committee is a group of second through sixth grade students and teachers committed to helping JPDS-NC Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink! The committee meets twice a month during lunch to plan recycling initiatives, […]

• Environmental Education
• Tikkun Olam

June 4, 2014 by Sabrina B (’14) (Students)

Last week, we had our fifth annual Israeli dance show. At the show, students perform group dances to Israeli music. The students work together as a class to learn the dances. All students in the younger grades learn Israeli dance and perform in the show, but it is an elective for fifth- and sixth-graders. In […]

• Dance
• Israel
• Performing Arts
• Student Stories

May 28, 2014 by Sami H (’15) (Students) Sophia M (’15) (Students)

Fifth-grade students from JPDS-NC just returned from Chesapeake Teva, a four-day, three-night outdoor education program where Jewish students from different schools learn about the environment and how Judaism connects to nature. At Teva, students go on long hikes through the beautiful nature and learn about different topics that connect Judaism to nature, including ecology, togetherness, […]

• Environmental Education
• Student Stories

May 7, 2014 by Isaac Y (’22) (Students) Keira Z (’22) (Students) Zoe B (’22) (Students)

We have a new playground at our school. It is made out of natural things like stone, trees, wood, logs and sand. We also have some grass. We wanted to make it more beautiful. In our kindergarten science class, we learned about Living and Non-living things. We wanted to add more living things to our […]

• Environmental Education
• Student Stories

April 11, 2014 by Ronit Greenstein (Faculty and Staff)

Our Mo’etzet Talmidim (Student Council) joined Members of Congress, Administration officials, interfaith and anti-hunger leaders, and individuals affected by hunger at the National Hunger Seder. Our students traveled to the Capitol Visitor Center and had a chance to participate in a seder organized by JCPA and Mazon that focused on the oppression of hunger. They […]

• Awards
• Holidays
• Washington D.C.