Congregation Beth Sholom's Religious School Curriculum is a "spiraled" curriculum, in which students revisit key content areas with increased sophistication as they progress through the curriculum.

The ten key content areas are: Community, Culture and Symbols, God, Hebrew and Prayer, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Lifecycle Events, Mitzvot and Jewish Values, and Tanach (Torah, Prophets, and Writings).

The curriculum is developmentally appropriate, nurturing students’ Jewish identity, equipping students to live rich and meaningful lives. Each Group (except the Ganeinu group) has thirty-two, ninety-minute sessions. There is a variety of activities in each lesson that implement the idea that students have different learning styles.

Our Religious School’s curriculum vision is to provide class-by-class lesson plans for each grade group, which include the Goal, the Objectives, the Procedures, the required Materials, and Review.

Throughout the curriculum, students continue to be exposed to these key content areas:

Through the religious school experience, students will recognize that Jewish education is a lifelong endeavor, one that involves a critical and inquiring approach, whereby the process of questioning is as valued and important as the quest for answers.