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Innovation at the Akiva Academic Fair
In honour of Akiva's 50th anniversary, the evening showcased an incredible exhibit of over two dozen life-sized innovative projects in English, French and Hebrew along the thematic timeline: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. All of our students, from kindergarten to grade...
Late Night with Akiva School – Wednesday June 5th
Please join us for an evening of celebration and laughter in honour of Akiva School's 50th Anniversary. Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 6:30pm - Cocktail Dinatoire 8:00pm - Akiva 50th Tribute and Comedy Show Click here to RSVP.
Akiva School Closed for Snow Day, Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Future 50 Campaign
Celebrating our past and shaping the next 50 years of learning.Help ensure our students continue to benefit from the Jewish educational experience that only Akiva School can provide. Please give a gift today. Together we can help build the future of Akiva...
Akiva 15th Annual Play – The Greatest Puppet Show
Akiva School’s recent 15th annual production was a huge success with four incredible performances on the evenings of December 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th at the DB Clarke Theater. Organized entirely by Akiva School parents, this year’s show was entitled “The...
CAPS Program Registration Open
The Generations Fund CAPS program makes excellent Jewish day school more accessible and affordable by providing subsidies and tuition freezes for middle-income families. Click here to find out more about the CAPS program and eligibility.
Annual Akiva Kindergarten Teddy Bear Clinic
Every year, the Kindergarten classes organize a session where our Kindergarten students bring their favourite teddy bear or stuffed toy to the “Teddy Bear Clinic”. The clinic consists of different stations run by Akiva parents who work in the medical field...
Celebrating 50 years of Jewish Learning
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Yom Kippur Message 2019
Yom Kippur is a day of judgment, but it is also a day of love. In the time of the Mishna (c. 200 C.E.), Yom Kippur was a day of courtship, when the young maidens of Jerusalem would dance in white robes in the vineyards, looking for a young man with whom to fall in...
Rosh HaShanah Message from Rabbi Grossman
Shomeia Kol Truat Amo Yisrael B’rachamim Hearing the Cries of Israel with Compassion One of my first students was a Grade 9 pupil whom I would describe as a fine young man. He was clean cut and kind, socially well-adjusted, and well-liked. Academically he was not an...
The “F” Word
Chidushim B’Chinuch—Insights into Education Third of an Ongoing Series There is a terrible and frightening moment in parenting when your child first uses the “F” word. Worst of all is when the object of the “F” word is you. Here is how it plays out. In response to...
Schools and Rules
Chidushim B’Chinuch—Insights into EducationSecond of an ongoing seriesThere is an elite private school in New England that had a student handbook which, as of the last time I checked, contained only one rule. Pushing back on the endless injunctions that...
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