Events

School Visits

7th September 2026 /

Through the work of the School Visits Team, our Synagogue provides an educational resource to the outside world. Our team of volunteers (currently 12 of us) welcome children and their teachers from schools in South London and the southern Home Counties, helping to bring their learning about Judaism in school RE lessons to life and to extend and reinforce their understanding and knowledge. As well as learning about the distinctive features of a synagogue, our visitors will learn some key ideas about Judaism and the Jewish way of life. We are also able to offer schools from further away a video based “virtual” synagogue visit.

Although we are called the School Visits Team, we also host visits by scout and guide groups, university students and adult groups such as police personnel and members of other faith groups. In the past year we have met with almost 2400 people, more than 2100 of whom were children. Almost 1600 of those people actually visited us in person. The others met us through virtual visits or personal visits by one of our team to their schools.

We strongly believe that interfaith learning is of the utmost importance in developing a harmonious world. We hope that by providing the opportunity to talk to Jewish people and learn about ‘living Judaism’, we can help to break down fear and prejudice, and foster understanding and good relations with those parts of the non-Jewish world that our team can reach.

We host visits for children from educational Key Stage 2 and above (ie from age 7). The team try to match each visit to the age and expectations of the visitors. and adapt the content and presentation to suit the age requirements of the group.

We have a number of freely downloadable teaching resources on a variety of Jewish topics which can be found on our website at Additional Resources for Teachers or from http://icjudaism.org.uk/resources.html .

If you are considering organising a visit, would like to arrange a virtual visit, or simply want to know more, please contact the team by clicking here. Please note that in-person visits to the synagogue normally take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings and can only be booked through contacting the School Visists Team, who will send you a link to register your visit.

 Before booking a visit, please note that:

  • Visits to the synagogue normally take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
  • If you require a visit for a SEND group do not use this form. Instead, please contact our school visits team at schoolvisits@wimshul.org
  • In-person visits to the synagogue normally take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
  • We can only accept school groups from KS2 and above;
  • We can only accept groups of up to 35 pupils per visit – larger groups would require 2 visits;