AT WORNICK

WHEN YOU INVEST IN US

We’re more than just a school. We’re a light unto the community as we inspire critical

thinking, complex problem solving and ethical decision-making. By combining outstanding

academics with timeless Jewish values, we’re shaping and preparing the next generation to

lead with not only intelligence and confidence, but respect and compassion.

Everyone in our warm community matters, is welcome, and can find meaning here. Chavurot Program brings Kindergarteners through 8th graders together.

COMMUNITYWe foster efforts to address hunger, poverty, inequality, environmental stewardship,and other social justice issues. Tzedakah Project teaches the importance of giving back.

JUSTICE

We appreciate and have gratitude for the beauty and splendor in the world in which we live. Morning T’fillah sets intentions for the day.

SPIRITUALITY

You’re ensuring the continuity of the Jewish community and helping to create a better world!

We strive to understand perspective and distinguish the important from the trivial, making wise decisions. 8th grade Capstone Portfolio project demonstrates the culmination of Wornick’s focus on critical thinking and self-reflection.

WISDOM

1986 2018

Tuition Assistance

Learning Specialists

Dual LanguageHebrew Program

Technology

Athletics

The Arts(Music, Drama and Visual Arts)

Join Us in Sustaining the Spirit

Your Gift Makes the Difference

A K–8 Experience Like No Other

• Why Wornick? Innovative learning experience, educating the whole child, sparking talents and passions, developing self-advocacy

• Progressive curriculum emphasis: critical thinking, complex problem solving, building language skills, ethical decision-making, leadership and stewardship

• Average class size: 10 Student–teacher ratio: 8:1

• 20% of families: interfaith 7.5% of families: non-Jewish 23% of families: Israeli

• Annual tuition assistance: nearly $1 million given to 40% of families

• Personal growth experiences outside the classroom: San Francisco Symphony, Camp Tawonga, Marin Headlands, American South, Olympic Peninsula, Israel

• Community-building events: Shabbat dinners, Lag B’Omer, Poker Night, and Wornick ArtFest

• 7th grade Tzedakah projects: approximately $30,000 awarded annually to non-profits such as Peninsula Open Trust, Suicide Prevention, Muttville, and Friendship Circle

• Our students emerge as engaged, confident young adults with the desire and skills to change the world

1986: School founded as the “North Peninsula Jewish Day School,” serving twenty-one children in K–2nd grade

1989: School grows in size to sixty children

1998: Mervyn Danker became Head of School

2017: Over $400,000 raised in celebration of Wornick’s

30th birthday

2015: Created dual language Hebrew program – Shalom

Ivrit – to ensure 8th graders graduate with high Hebrew

language proficiency

2002: First 8th grade class graduated and went on to attend

schools such as UC Berkeley, Pitzer, American, Dartmouth, and Stanford

2016: Cemented our future with an $8 million purchase of 12 acres of land previously leased in partnership with the PJCC

1999: Middle School opened 2016: 7th grade received the Youth in

Philanthropy Award from Silicon Valley Association of Fundraising Professionals for their Tzedakah Project

2016: Wornick grows to two hundred students

2017: Peleh Lab (Maker Space) and modern play structure opened

“At Wornick, we were accepted and loved as individuals. We have all been able to take risks and

live our unique lives because we are confident in who we each are and know we have this community

to come back to.”

Sydney Calander ’02 Pitzer College Graduate,

Fulbright Scholar, Technical Recruiter at Airbnb

’86 ’89 ’98 ’99 ’02

2004: Renamed the Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School and moved to the 31,570 square foot facility on the North Peninsula Jewish Campus in Foster City

2003: School joins the Small School Independent League for middle school sports

’04’03

2006: First annual 8th grade trip to Israel in partnership with Reali School in Haifa

’06

2009: Barbara Gereboff became Head of School

’09

2012: Expanded arts program

’12 ’15 ’16 ’17

HONOR THE PAST

INSPIRE THE FUTURE

Co-chairsFran and Bobby Lent Salma and Michael Wornick

Committee Gilah and Mark AbelsonLiki and Joe AbramsDaphne Kaufer and Ram Bartov

Abbe BraitmanMarian and Allan ByerRochelle and Mervyn DankerBarbara EnglerSusan FolkmanAndy FradkinCandee and Jack KleinBarbi and Warren LazarowSherry and Brian Lipson

Tamar and Jon MillerIrene and Stephen MoffSora Lei and Don NewmanShani and Larry PascalCraig PottruckRebecca and David RodnitzkyAmy Rabbino and Neal RubinLori SilversteinSusie and Rich Sorkin

Anne and David SteirmanLimeng and Eylon StrohRoselyn C. SwigDiane and Tad TaubeWendy and Jeremy VerbaKathy and Don WilliamsKatie and Mike WolffAnita and Ronald C. Wornick

SUSTAIN THE SPIRIT HONORARY COMMITTEE

We invite you to sustain the spirit of our community and transform

tomorrow by making a donation to Wornick. To make a gift, or to

learn more about the different ways to support the school, please

visit www.wornickjds.org/giving or call 650-378-2621.

You may also send donations to:

Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day SchoolAttn: Development Office800 Foster City BoulevardFoster City, CA 94404

Mr. Bobby LentBenefactor

– “I am inspired as I watch the children at the school experience the rhythm of Jewish life and the beauty of Jewish values in an environment filled with creativity and joy.”

– Mr. Ron Wornick Benefactor

“My visits to the school reveal the students as a garden of seedlings being transformed into engaged and enlightened young people.”

A beneficiary of the Jewish Community Federation. Accredited by CAIS and WASC.