40th First Grade Class Starts School

September 8, 2024
The traditional rainbow-red carpet entrance

This year, as in every year for the past 40 years, a new first grade class was led into the school. The first graders had already had a chance to meet their teachers, and now they walked with one of them through the rainbow arch and the beribboned one, down the red carpet lined on both sides by the sixth-grade class.

 

Welcoming little siblings to the primary school

The sixth-graders welcomed them to the school taking turns speaking to the school body, staff and parents in Hebrew and Arabic. Kids with younger siblings entering first grade took the stage to relay their wishes for their brothers and sisters.

Four-graders singing a song

Principal Neama Abu Delo welcomed them as well, wishing everyone a year of peace to all, as well as scholastic achievement, a year of learning to learn and play together and a year of learning to overcome challenges and blossoming.

Educational Co-Director, Nir Sharon and Principal Neama Abu Delo welcomed the children and parents

The ceremony included the best wishes from the head of the children’s welfare section of the local council, a song from the fourth-grade class and finally, Nir Sharon, Co-Executive Director of the Educational Institutions, told the children and their families that 40 years ago, the school started with 11 children.

children by tree

 

He reminded them all that over the years, the primary school has always served as a bubble – in the best sense of the word – of sharing, coexistence, and peace, and it will continue to do so over the coming year, no matter what happens outside the precious bubble our teachers and children work to maintain. “You are now, as they were then, our hope for peace,” he told them.

two girls

 

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