Students at Bellevue Hill Public School are helping put some “good” back into the world as part of the Mitzvah Campaign launched in the wake of last year’s terrorist attack.

NSW Faith Affairs Council chair Bishop Michael Stead said the campaign aimed to honour and pay respect to the 15 victims of the antisemitic attack.

"We think it’s a great idea to be able to honour those whose lives were taken at Bondi by putting good back into the world in place of evil,” Bishop Stead said.

"I think it’s something that kids can do whether they are from a faith background or not. Everybody believes in doing good.”

It is a view thoroughly embraced by the school captain.

“I think the campaign is an amazing thing,” they said. “It’s bringing lots of people together and it’s helping so many people who are affected by what happened (at Bondi).

“I want to help. I want to support the people I know who were harmed by this and help them as much as I can including making them feel safe at our school.”

NSW Faith Affairs Council education sub-committee co-chair Surinder Jain said the campaign was a show of support for the Jewish community in their “darkest hour”.

“It’s good that in schools children learn that [while] we may have our differences, there’s so much common between us and we have to respect and admire each other for that.”

Fellow sub-committee co-chair Murray Norman said the Council was encouraging school communities to be involved in the Mitzvah Campaign.

“The Mitzvah campaign is looking at acts of service that we may be able to do to bring light to the community so that might be helping someone else or doing an act of kindness.

“We want to see hate of all forms extinguished. We want to stand against antisemitism and make sure everyone else is standing against it as well.”

Rabbinical Association of Australasia President Rabbi Nochum Schapiro said the campaign was an important way of helping the community to move on from the Bondi attack.

"Sometimes the only way to deal with a harsh reality like what happened (at Bondi) is to focus on moving ahead. Making something positive out of it.

"The concept here is that we shouldn’t be living only for ourselves but living for others. We need our young people to live for a higher purpose in sharing and spreading goodness.

“If we can inspire, especially young people in those areas, we’ll have a much better society. That light will be the best counterbalance.”

Bellevue Hill Public School principal Sue Bennett said NSW public schools were very much aware of the impact of the terrorist attack on their communities and had a variety of supports in place to deal with that.

“It’s going to take a long time to recover but we can keep working on that in our schools and having different religious leaders to support that is very, very important,” she said.

“We have 72 per cent of students from a non-English-speaking background in our school.

“We were talking to the boys and girls about how harmonious it is at Bellevue Hill and whatever belief you have or whatever background you have it is harmonious.”