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Important Information: What You Are Registering For:
The UHS goal is to prepare youngsters for a lifetime of meaningful participation in Jewish rituals. To that end, we do not limit learning to rote recitations, but we teach the ideas within the prayers and a vocabulary of Jewish values and frequently recurring prayer words.
Parents should be aware that there will be homework. Sometimes the homework will involve parents as the student explores family history, ideals, traditions, and memories to help bring to life the ideas in liturgy. Students will have vocabulary to learn, particularly the words that embody deep Jewish meaning, and the grammatical forms that occur so often that knowing them makes reading easier as well as more meaningful.
There are some schools that ask nothing and give nothing but parrot learning. UHS today is not one of them. We seek to foster the growth of Jewish souls through a meaningful reading of the priceless texts of our people.
Many of the texts the children learn are part of either at-home rituals welcoming Shabbat, or they are part of synagogue worship. A student benefits from putting to use their new knowledge during Shabbat evenings at home and during relatively frequent participation in synagogue services. To the extent that parents provide the child with those opportunities, the child will benefit.
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By submitting this registration, you are granting permission to UHS staff to render first aid to your child in event of emergency.
AND you are granting UHS permission to take and use photographs of your child in publications of UHS, home synagogues, the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and on this web site, as part of news about the school's activities.
If you have any questions about the form or, if for any reason, you wish not to grant such permissions, contact UHS principal Kathryn Morton at 489-4550 before registering your child.
Regarding all the phone numbers. the evening number is to enable us to discuss your child's progress with you. All the other numbers are in case of emergency. Be sure we have somebody we can contact at any time your child is in our care.
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