Bialik Hebrew Day School

Bialik Hebrew Day School
Bialik Hebrew Day School
Address
	2760 Bathurst Street; Toronto, Ontario, M6B 3A1; Canada
Coordinates	43°42′39.07″N 79°25′43.58″W
Information
School type	Private Jewish day school
Motto	״פה בית היוצר לנשמת האומה״ (in Hebrew); ("Here the soul of the people is forged")
Founded	1961
School board	Toronto Board of Jewish Education
Head of School	Benjamin Cohen
Grades	Preschool-8
Enrollment	1000 (2016)
Language	English, Hebrew, Yiddish, French
Website	bialik.ca

Bialik Hebrew Day School (Hebrew: בֵּית סֵפֶר יוֹמִי עַל שֵׁם ח.נ. בְּיַאלִיק‎) is a private, Jewish day school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the few day schools in Toronto's Board of Jewish Education to teach Yiddish, beginning in grade three.

History

Bialik Hebrew Day School was established in 1961 with 54 students and four staff members by members of the Labour Zionist movement, with Moishe Mendachovsky as its first principal. By 1975, enrolment had increased to 550 students and 52 staff.[1] The school was named in honour of the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik. It has four "houses" named after Israeli universities: Bar-Ilan/Tel-Aviv, Ben-Gurion/Weizmann, Hebrew University, and Haifa/Technion.

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