OHDS students are offered a variety of specialty classes aimed at deepening their personal growth and appreciation for the world around them.

• The comprehensive Art program combines the knowledge, imagination, and evaluative factors of creativity, for a productive pattern of growth in perception, critical thinking, valuing, and art skills.

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• The Physical Education program focuses on motor skills and movement knowledge, self-image and personal development, and social development.

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• In Computer Lab students learn typing, online research skills, applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point, and advanced skills like programming and animation.

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• The Oakland Hebrew Day School library supports the educational programs of the school and provides a setting for the guided development and practice of information skills.

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• The Oakland Hebrew Day School music and drama programs provide training in the performing arts and opportunities to perform for the OHDS community and the public at large.

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"OHDS made me consciously want to pursue learning and created a warm, loving atmosphere that helped me develop my interests, particularly those of creative writing, art, theater and history. I am now departing off to Sarah Lawrence College in New York where I will pursue my interests in the arts and develop further passions along the way, and I have OHDS in part to thank for these future adventures in learning."

Naomi Kaye, OHDS alumna,
Jewish Community High School of the Bay class of 2005