A new team plans to submit a joint New Jewish High School free school bid to the Department for Education.

The New Jewish High School team, comprising of teams from The Barkai College and Kavanah College Free School, is working under the guidance of the New School Network and has submitted its draft for review.

The parent-led initiative hopes to create a new inclusive Modern Orthodox secondary school offering places to students on a lottery system across Borehamwood, Mill Hill, Edgware, Finchley, Hendon and Barnet.

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The school's ethos will be Modern Orthodox and the proposer team represents a cross section of the Jewish community. The proposers are committed to ensuring that the school is inclusive to all parts of the Jewish and wider community, according to the DfE free school guidelines, and will seek a mainstream Orthodox rabbinic authority in due course.

Other aspects of the school's ethos will include a commitment to emotional well-being, social responsibility to the wider community and a commitment to inter-faith work. There will be a maths, technology and science specialisation.

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Maurice Ashkenazi-Bakes, co-lead of the bid, said: “As a joint team, we have been able to create a bid that is representative of the Jewish community and that will suit the many hundreds of families who desire to give their children an outstanding secular and Jewish education.

"Our vision is to create a centre of educational excellence, implementing cutting-edge practises from some of the world’s top learning institutions, which will give all our pupils the best possible start for life in modern Britain.”

The DfE requires free school proposers to show a need for the school.

Eve Sacks, co-lead of the bid, said: “Our joint bid brings together the particular strengths of our individual applications. The Barkai and Kavanah teams reached out to each other to develop the new joint bid, and we now have a strong team of educators overseeing and backing our efforts.

"We plan to present an application to the Department for Education that is well-rounded, and we look forward to presenting the plans in more detail as our efforts develop.”

The deadline for those applications has yet to be announced but will likely be in April.