Bialik Hebrew Day School

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 JK.

For the high school in Montreal, see Bialik High School.

Bialik Hebrew Day School
Location
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; 64 years ago (1961)
School board	Toronto Board of Jewish Education
Head of School	Jake Gallinger
Grades	Preschool-8
Enrollment	1008 (2016)
Language	English, Hebrew, Yiddish, French
Website	bialik.ca

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.