The King David School - Academic excellence & Jewish connection

"King David’s superpower is its ability to guide and support you to empower yourself. King David shaped me. Helping me realise my own potential and providing me opportunities and help wherever I wanted it, KDS cultivated my self-growth and instilled in us a strong sense of Jewish identity - peoplehood, history, culture, and tradition."
Trixie Bustin-Irwin, Class of 2024

"What I will miss most is the culture of King David. This culture separates us from other schools. A culture that allows me to confidently walk through the hallways with no fear of being judged, instead it embraces friendliness and conversations across all year levels. A culture where you are all truly cared for, where the school is always invested in your best interest.”
Poppy Rauchberger, Class of 2024

Grow with Us

Welcome! Bruchim Habaim

We invite you to discover for yourself why more families are choosing King David.

With core values of community-mindedness, equity and social justice, King David students thrive in a warm and caring educational environment with a focus on academic excellence, strong Jewish identity, student wellbeing, and creative thinking skills for the future.

Principal's Welcome

Bruchim Habaim and welcome to The King David School.
Schooling is an integral part of our lives, establishing the foundation for our future success. I am proud that at King David, we prepare our students to thrive in the world they will graduate into, ensuring they are collaborative, critical and creative thinkers. Our values of community mindedness, equity, and tikkun olam ensure that students develop emotional intelligence. Students are encouraged to use their achievements to create a better Australia.

From celebrating our Chagim (holidays) to debating Jewish ethics to researching Jewish history, our students experience Judaism as a rich and moving tradition that is relevant to their lives. Our Jewish Life team facilitates hands-on learning that strengthens our students' Jewish and Zionist identities.

As you look on the website, I encourage you to discover our educational philosophy and the extraordinary opportunities on offer both in and out of the classroom. From exceptional outdoor education, to musicals, debating, coding contests and more, our students are able to challenge themselves in a range of environments.

Our School's founders, Isador Magid AO and Rabbi Dr John Levi AC, stand as role models for our students and teachers alike by virtue of their dedication to learning and enlightenment. The school environment they created continues to this day, promoting critical inquiry, positive relationships and the embracing of difference.

It is a privilege to lead Australia's only Progressive Jewish school. I invite you to book a tour and learn more about the King David difference.

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Early Learning

Our Early Learning Centre follows an intentional and purposeful play-based curriculum with a focus on developing each child's strengths, executive function skills and a love of Jewish traditions. Children learn in a warm environment where their natural curiosity is nurtured.

Wellbeing

Emotional intelligence, friendship and the importance of mindfulness are taught to students across the whole school with our dedicated wellbeing classes and curriculum which develop the whole student.

Our Curriculum

Emphasising the importance of thinking skills, our curriculum maximises student engagement, teaching creativity, collaboration & critical thinking through core curriculum.

Teaching and Learning

Emphasising the importance of thinking skills, our teaching & learning framework draws on pedagogical best practice to maximise student engagement. The framework aims to develop the whole child and teach creativity, collaboration & critical thinking.

Jewish Life and Learning

King David welcomes families from a diverse range of Jewish backgrounds. Our highly engaging and interactive Jewish Life program provides students with comprehensive tools to decide how they would like to live their Jewish lives.

Outdoor Education

Our camp programs develop students who are confident decision makers, work well in teams, and can navigate new situations. Our camps are a vital part of life and learning at King David.

Upcoming Events

Survivors of the Oct 7 Massacre look at the camera. This is an advert for the Virtual Reality Experience commemorating Oct 7 2023

Virtual Reality Experience – Stories of Survival

The School is proud to be partnering with ISRAEL-is to bring our families a very unique experience. ISRAEL-is aims to tackle the challenge of improving

Middle School Musical: SpongeBob

SpongeBob the musical tells the story of SpongeBob and his friends in Bikini Bottom facing imminent disaster when a nearby volcano threatens to erupt and

This is advertising a Parents' Education event about toxic masculinity online. There is a cartoon of an angry man at a laptop.

Parent Education: The Manosphere

The Manosphere is a network of websites, blogs, and forums that often promote harmful ideas about masculinity, misogyny, and anti-feminist views. It is a toxic

Students pose with clothing creations they have made from duct tape for Project Slingshot. They have worked creatively and collaboratively together.

Tackling real-world challenges for Project Slingshot

This term, our Year 7 cohort took part in the exciting annual Project Slingshot competition. Project Slingshot is a fast-paced, hands-on program that gives students a taste of entrepreneurial skills

KDS students are performing in a band. This image shows two singers passionately singing into their microphones. Another student plays a red guitar while another student plays the drums. They are wearing King David school uniform.

Triumph at the Battle of the Bands

PLACE TEXT HERE This year’s Battle of the Bands Jewish Schools competition was staged at the Besen Centre on Monday night and the standard of the competition was outstanding, with

The Year 7 Girls' Soccer team are huddled together, smiling at the camera. They are weraing medals. they have just been declared the winners in their division of the Maccabi Soccer Cup.

Maccabi Soccer Champions

On Wednesday 3 September, King David’s Year 7 and Year 9 students competed in the Maccabi Cup soccer tournament. The girls’ team delivered an outstanding performance with victories over Beth

Each week our Principal, Marc Light shares his insights into current events and educational pedagogy, highlighting how these inform the educational programs and culture at The King David School.

Positive Expectations

Every morning across the School we have heard the blasts of shofar from our Year 2 ba’ale tokea (masters of the blast) at the Dandenong Road Campus and a roster of student and staff volunteers at Magid Campus. We are now well into the month of Elul, the period where we sound

A meaningful antidote to climate anxiety

According to research referenced by the Climate Council in their Climate Anxiety Toolkit, more than three quarters of Australians are worried about climate change. In particular, a worldwide study found that more than half of young people surveyed are feeling “sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty about climate change.”

Knowing ourselves so we can choose

This week our Year 7 cohort delighted their parents, grandparents and special friends with their celebration of the Kabbalat Mitzvah. This program is one that is focused on acknowledging the special stage of life that accompanies the B’nei Mitzvah years. In Jewish custom it is said that one does not