by The Rashi School | Apr 5, 2024 | Community, Social Justice, Middle School
By JFS of Metrowest Last week, the JFS/Rashi Learning and Leadership Council held a Middle School session on Active Bystander Training. Active bystanders, as defined on the JFS website, “learn how to recognize, safely deescalate, and intervene in potentially...
by The Rashi School | Feb 16, 2024 | Community, Learning, Our Stories, Social Justice, Middle School, Lower School
The 30th year of the Suzanne and Bernard Pucker Tamchui Project came to a close today after weeks of incredible learning, organizing, and doing. Tamchui (meaning “community collection pot” in Aramaic) is Rashi’s annual three-week, all-school social justice initiative...
by The Rashi School | Feb 2, 2024 | Community, Learning, Social Justice, Middle School, Lower School
The 2024/5784 Suzanne and Bernard Pucker Tamchui Program kicked off this week, and we couldn’t be more excited! Tamchui, meaning “community collection pot” in Aramaic, is a three week, all-school academic initiative that focuses on teaching...
by The Rashi School | Dec 15, 2023 | Learning, Our Stories, Social Justice, Middle School
Yesterday, 42 Rashi Middle School students who are part of the Jewish Family Service of Metrowest (JFS)/Rashi Leadership Council visited the JFS Resource Room in Framingham. The Resource Room provides all sorts of necessities to refugee and immigrant families, such as...
by The Rashi School | Sep 29, 2023 | Learning, Middle School
The first unit of the school year in Grade 6 science is about physical oceanography. Students begin with density, then density driven ocean currents, followed by wind driven ocean currents. They then see how climate is affected by ocean currents, and look at the...
