Welcome to the 2022 school year! I would like to share with you my speech to our Senior School students from this week’s opening assembly. Born from Dreams and a Vision… Today I want to talk to you about dreams. Our beautiful school was founded on a dream and I know that the reality that […]
Our Year 3, 4 and 5 students present Meshuga Primary – it’s not your ordinary school. Shmuley has come to visit Meshuga Primary – and slowly learns that life is different here. At Meshuga Primary we encourage imagination, actively make mistakes, and see the world differently! Remember, ‘”there is no one alive who is youer
Mazal tov to our VCE students who performed extraordinarily well. 7% of our students achieved 99 or above placing them in the top 1% of the State 31% achieved 95 or above, placing them in the top 5% of the State 43% achieved 90 or above placing them in the top 10% of the State
This week we emerged a little dusty and dirty but uplifted from four days at Buandik, our bush campsite in Gariwerd (Grampians) National Park. There, together with the Indigicate educators, we set up camp – our temporary community. Through walks, talks and living in the bush, students were able to connect to the environment at
As a memento of their time in KDS Junior School, our Year 5 students painted their own unique kiddush cups this week. Each student created their individual cos l’mitzvah, a goblet with which to perform the mitzvah of reciting kiddush on Shabbat. The Friday night kiddush explicitly affirms that we were lovingly gifted Shabbat as
With an enormous flurry of activity, our school year is drawing to a close. Given the array of camps, drama festivals, graduation ceremonies, Kadima days and excursions that we are undertaking, I am sure that our students will be suitably exhausted by the middle of next week. We are very grateful that we have been
The Junior School campus has been bursting with Chanukah excitement this week! Our students kicked off a thrilling festival week with communal tefillah where we lit the Chanukiah and heard about the incredible work of The Joint Australia who kindly donated boxes of candles to each of our P-5 students. Across the school, students experienced
Last week’s Junior School Sports Carnival was another brilliant day! From long jump, to sack racing, to sprints and egg and spoon races – we had a day filled with fun, skill and ruach! Galil was the winning house with 2374 points, followed by Negev with 2291 points. The weather stayed clear at the Bricker Reserve
On December 6 1938, Yorta Yorta man, William Cooper, famously led a march from his home to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a protest letter about the Nazi attrocities that occurred in Germany a month earlier on Kristalnacht. This unprecedented and brave show of morality marks a model of mutual support that continues
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This week and last we’ve been busy preparing and learning about the upcoming Jewish Festival of Chanukah through art, drama, music and of course food! We practised drawing and crossing the mid-line through drawing and painting a Chanukiah for a classroom wall display. Crossing the body’s mid-line is the ability to reach across the middle of the
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The King David School is a forward-thinking school that fosters a love of learning, egalitarianism and a proud connection to Jewish identity.
The King David School acknowledges the Bunurong/Boonwurrung and the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation as Traditional Owners of the land on which the School operates. We also acknowledge Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to them and to their Elders past and present.