Hasmonean High School
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| Motto | אל תקרי בניך אלא בוניך - ("Don't call them your children, rather your builders") |
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| Established | 1944 |
| Type | Academy |
| Religion | Jewish |
| Headteacher | Mr Andrew McClusky (Exec.), Mrs Debbie Lebrett (Boys), Mrs Rachel Fink (Girls) |
| Location |
Holders Hill Road Hendon London England, UK 51°35′47″N 0°12′51″W / 51.5963°N 0.2143°WCoordinates: 51°35′47″N 0°12′51″W / 51.5963°N 0.2143°W |
| DfE URN | 137539 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1016 |
| Gender | Boys and girls on separate sites |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | HHS |
Hasmonean High School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status for pupils from Orthodox Jewish families, situated in the London Borough of Barnet, England.
The school was founded by the late Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld in 1944 as Hasmonean Grammar School. Rabbi Dr. Schonfeld (1912-1984) rescued thousands of Jews from the Holocaust and pioneered Jewish day school education in England. Dr. Schonfeld saw the need for an Orthodox Jewish school in North West London, which, despite having high numbers of Orthodox Jews, did not have a religious school to cater for them. Many Jews had reached Great Britain from different parts of Nazi-occupied Europe, most of them settling in London. Since Orthodox Judaism places great emphasis on the upbringing of children, the need subsequently arose for a school where the children could be educated in an Orthodox Jewish environment. Jewish law discourages mingling of the sexes when possible, especially when they are unmarried, so two separate schools needed to be set up, one for boys and one for girls.
The boys’ school became a voluntary aided Local Authority School in 1957. In September 1975, the girls moved to the present purpose-built Page Street site in Mill Hill. In 1984, voluntary aided status was extended to the girls' school, and the two sections joined as one to become a five-form-entry School. In April 1994, the school became grant maintained, but returned to Voluntary Aided Status in September 1999, following the abolition of grant-maintained schools. In March 2008 Hasmonean was singled out as one of the faith schools in the news for its procedure of demanding contributions from parents as a condition of entry. The school converted to academy status in October 2011.
The school has established a Beis Hamedrash programme for Fifth and Sixth Form boys (Years 11-13) and a Midrasha programme for sixth form girls.
Originally, the school was situated in The Drive in Golders Green until 1947. In that year, the boys' school moved to Holders Hill Road, where it has remained until the present day. Until 1975, the girls' school was accommodated in a two large houses in Parson Street, Hendon, when it was relocated to Page Street.
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