UJS School Update – July 15, 2020

July 15, 2020

Dear Parents,

We hope that you are enjoying a great West Michigan summer.  With lots of sunshine and plenty of warmth we have been blessed so far with near perfect weather.

We are excited to update you on the upcoming 2020-2021 United Jewish School year.  We are looking forward to welcoming our students back to in-person classes on Sunday, August 30.  With Covid-19 protocols in place for everyone’s well-being, we are planning for classes to be held on two campuses. Classes for Gan Katan through Grade 4 will take place at Temple Emanuel and classes for Grades 5-10 will take place at Ahavas Israel.  We are also creating a distance learning component for every grade.

We have purchased a new Judaic curriculum for Kindergarten through Grade 7 from Shalom Learning.  It is designed to be used for both in-person and virtual settings.  We have also purchased a new web-based Hebrew curriculum called JLearnHub that can also be used in for classroom or distance learning.

We are delighted to announce our teaching staff for the coming year. 

  • Pre-Kindergarten-Sarah Belleveau-Morin
  • Kindergarten-Claire Fisher
  • First Grade-Amber Groenke
  • Second Grade-Nicole Katzman
  • Third and Fourth Grade-Josh Cohen
  • Third and Fourth Grade Hebrew-Elisabeth Rosewall and Emily Rosewall
  • Fifth and Sixth Grade-Shelby Denhof
  • Fifth and Sixth Grade Hebrew-TBD
  • Seventh Grade-Nicole and Jordan Newman
  • Eighth Grade-Avi Forstein
  • Ninth and Tenth Grade-Allie Egrin
  • Art Consultants-Deet Newman and Jack Moga
  • Teaching Assistants-Melinda Frank and Alex Sherman-Hay

Registration for the 2020-2021 school year is now open at the newly redesigned UnitedJewishSchool.org! We ask that you register early so that our new Administrative Assistant, Julianna Schrier, a recent graduate of GVSU, will be able to update your contact information and help us prepare for the coming year.  If you have any questions about registration or immunization requirements please contact Julianna at Julianna@UnitedJewishSchool.org.

The school calendar is on our website and is available as a downloadable one-page pdf.  More details will be coming your way after August 1.  Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.

We are sincerely yours,
Rabbi Michael Schadick
Rabbi@GRTemple.org

Rabbi David Krishef
RabbiK@UnitedJewishSchool.org

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