Yeshiva College Girls High School

At Yeshiva Girls High School, our goal is to ensure that our students receive a unique Jewish education of the highest standard. We aspire to foster in them a love for and commitment to Torah and mitzvoth, a love of the Land of Israel and responsibility towards the Jewish People. We try to challenge each student intellectually, stimulating their intellectual growth and developing in them a thirst for Torah knowledge. Concern for and participation with the underprivileged and the needy of the broader community is a constant component of our milieu.

Curriculum

CHUMASH & NAVI, both subjects focus on studying original texts and developing skills in analysis of the commentaries; HALACHA, practical Jewish Law; JEWISH HISTORY; SHA’AT YO’ETZET, Middot and personal growth from a Torah perspective with our school student councellor; PARSHAT SHAVUA, the weekly Torah portion; BIUR TEFILLAH, insights into prayer; MAVO LETOSHBA, an introduction to the Oral Law; SHIUR KELALI, high level lecture offering a Torah perspective on current affairs, CHAVRUTA, students of different ages partner together and study texts with leading questions.

Beit Midrash Track has recently been launched that offers a higher level Limudei Kodesh opportunity parallel to a number of mainstream classes. This track specializes in developing critical thinking as well as the required skills to analyze Torah Texts.

The Shalhevet Programme offers daily early morning breakfast shiurim and a number of

Facilities

Our campus is bright and contemporary and our facilities include audio-visual capabilities to enhance a state-of-the art education with a modern teaching apparatus for a school of the 21st Century. An exciting recently completed building project includes an multi-purpose Beit Midrash and a canteen taking our infrastructure to greater heights.

Exra Murals

Our informal programme includes many fun-filled and enriching activities such as Breakfast Clubs, extra shiurim before and after school, sports, Chessed and outreach programmes (including visits to Sandringham Gardens, Selwyn Segal and Our Parents’ Home as well as outreach to the broader community). YID (Yeshiva Informal Department) runs Shabbatonim, School Tours and a host of cultural activities. Our students are very active in fundraising, inter-school quizzes that include in recent years 6 students who participated in the International Bible Quiz held in Israel and the Junior City Council.

The Yeshiva Girls’ High recently won the inter-school quizzes – the school’s Junior and Senior Inter-school Bible Leagues, represented South Africa in Israel in the International Bible Quiz and won the Israel Quiz.