JPPS-Bialik Newsroom

November 23, 2011, (Côte St. Luc) — At the JPPS-Bialik Annual General Meeting, JPPS’ teacher Rita Guindi was selected as this year’s recipient of the Nachum Wilchesky Memorial Educational Leadership Award.

Dear Parents,

JPPS prides itself on the excellence of our school.  We are committed to ensuring that each child is cared for and supported in a warm, friendly and positive environment. We thank you for your confidence in JPPS and for entrusting your children to us.

Stumping Mathematicians is All Part of the Plan

Montreal elementary school JPPS again wins the top spot for math in Quebec, second overall in Canada!

For over a decade, Jewish Peoples and Peretz School has produced national and provincial math champions. This year, Grade 6 students won the provincial top spot and came in second overall in Canada. It begs the question: What are they doing so well?

This is no ordinary test; the questions have been known to stump professional mathematicians. In thirty minutes, the students have to answer 35 questions indirectly testing logical thought and application. The material is far beyond the normal range of what a grade 6 student ought to know: The concepts are often first introduced only in grades 8 and 9.

Around 1500 students throughout Canada took part in the test, encompassing about 305 schools. Each school submitted their 5 best scores to the Math League.

The JPPS-Bialik Board of Directors is proposing that we consider merging with UTT/Herzliah to form a new school system. We are seeking input from the school community on this proposal, as described in the attached document, An Opportunity to Strengthen the Jewish Community of Montreal.

We encourage you to participate at parlour meetings that we are organizing, before a vote of our association members (essentially parents, donors and alumni) takes place, as per our by-laws. If you are interested or have questions, please email us at feedback@jppsbialik.ca.

Please click here to download the PDF file.

JPPS Teacher Sheila Witt Folk Shule ’53: first recipient of the Nachum Wilchesky Memorial Educational Leadership Award

It was so fitting that JPPS teacher and Folk Shule graduate from 1953 Sheila Witt was named the first recipient of the very prestigious Nachum Wilchesky Memorial Educational Leadership Award at the JPPS-Bialik Annual General Meeting held on November 29th.

It was a unanimous decision on the part of the committee chaired by Past President Shelley Cohen JPPS ’69.  Committee members Edmond Elbaz, Directeur des Etudes Françaises Emérite, Merle Frankel Wolofsky, Executive Director Emeritus and Sara Weinberg, Director of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Concordia University, carefully considered the criteria for the award – that it be bestowed upon a JPPS-Bialik teacher, administrator, educational staff member, or lay leader demonstrating outstanding teaching excellence or innovative and inspirational leadership in the field of Jewish education –  as well as Nachum Wilchesky’s own love for the Yiddish language and culture, alongside the teaching of French, English and Hebrew.

Visit the JPPS Open House on Tuesday, October 26th, 2010. The Presentation begins at 9:00 a.m. and the school tours begin at 9:30 a.m. Whether you are interested in Pre-K (3 and 4 year olds), section Française, or K - 6, everyone is welcome!

The 2010 JPPS-Bialik Concert Gala was a major success as the extended JPPS-Bialik family joined together for a night of great food and drink, entertainment, and naturally, schmoozing! More than 250 people attended the 2010 Gala, which honoured the Roskies siblings for their role in advancing Jewish education and the preservation of Yiddish. About $120,000 was raised from generous members of the community.

Montreal, March 4, 2010 — “A classroom is a lot like a football team. Without respect and teamwork, everything falls apart,” Montreal Alouette football player Damon Duval recently explained to a Grade 4 classroom at JPPS.

Purim festivities engulfed JPPS as one of the more joyous Jewish holidays on the calendar made its celebratory return to the school.  Everyone had a ball at the annual Purim carnival, while many yummy hamenstashen disappeared from the packages in order to claim their rightful places—in the bellies of happy JPPS students!

The mutual giving of food and drink in baskets called mishloach manot is a time-honoured Purim tradition. Celebrating Purim is simply incomplete without nashing on a hamentashen, or two, or three. But imagine having the power to satisfy someone’s sweet tooth while simultaneously supporting the vital work that the JEM Workshop does in the community.