After the sharp drop in GCSE entries for Ivrit across the country this summer, one school at least has good news to report.
JCoSS has had the odd student taking A-level modern Hebrew in the past but now has a group of nine who have started the course this year.
Sara Levan, director of Jewish life at the cross-communal school, says the group are “predominantly from families with a background in Israel”.
But she credits their recruitment to the persuasiveness of Ivrit head Shai Grosskopf “who believes strongly in it”.
