RHA coordinates and provides a comprehensive range of student services and programs. We welcome a variety of students with different backgrounds and different strengths.
Families belonging to Reform, Conservative and modern Orthodox synagogues are all part of the RHA family. Synagogue affiliation is not a pre-requisite for admission.
Yes. The school asks that foods that contain peanuts, nuts or their respective families of products not be brought onto school premises. This policy applies to all classes, even those without anaphylactic children. All school events follow a nut-aware policy, with policies kept up-to-date with the T.D.S.B. and other CAIS-accredited schools.
All lunches must be dairy or parve. Any food brought to school must bear a Hechsher such as COR or OU or other registered Kosher labels. When meat is served in the hot lunch program, all students are able to bring a lunch with kosher meat to school that day. The following symbols on the school calendar indicate when students can bring meat to school. We ask that parents be mindful of the days when meat lunches are allowed and only send kosher meat products.
Please call the administration office. Early years class lists are made available each spring for those interested in carpooling. In addition, the school has a carpool book where new families may register.
Student safety is at the top of our priorities as a school. We work closely with Beth Tzedec Congregation to ensure that our procedures are aligned and reviewed regularly.
The building entrance is secured by a guard and with surveillance.
We have strict sign in/out procedures for students and visitors.
Students are supervised by teachers or monitors at all times during school hours.
Our faculty, staff, and lunch & after school instructors are all required to submit a vulnerable sector police check and are educated in emergency best practices.
Each teacher is given an emergency procedure manual which goes through a variety of protocols including missing students, suspicious characters, threats, suspicious packages and evacuation procedures.
Throughout the year, students are also trained on evacuation and lock-down procedures, in the case of a fire or threat.
Tuition fees increase annually to cover changes in operating expenses. Increasing tuition further would make the cost of sending a child to RHA increasingly difficult to many of our parents. The cost of tuition at RHA remains in line with other Jewish Day Schools.
UJA provides financial support through The Centre for Jewish Education for scholarships and subsidies. The funds have been capped over the last number of years and must be distributed over the growing number of students in the day school system in Toronto.
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As Canada’s first CAIS-accredited school, we are part of an elite community of over 90 independent schools in Canada achieving and maintaining excellence in all areas of educational excellence.