ELC & Junior School Discovery Tours
We know that choosing a school is one of the most important decisions you will make on behalf of your child. Discover for yourself the King David difference on our ELC and Junior School Discovery Tours.
Nitzan Personal Projects
On Wednesdays during Nitzan over the last month, students worked on and created their own personal projects. These projects gave students the opportunity to show the skills they have developed over their schooling and through Nitzan. Many amazing projects were created, including animation, unique art, painting, quilling (see the image above), baking, piping techniques, designing
Future Fuel Choices
Students in VCE Chemistry 1/2 have been conducting project-based learning on fuel choices for future transport. This has involved measuring energy content in fuels using bomb Calorimetry, creating Galvanic Cells and exploring alternatives such as hydrogen fuel cells. “So they taught us wrong” said Tobi Taranto as he realised that the density water is 0.997
VCE Explained
We are now half way through the end-of-year VCE examination period. In the lead up to the exam period I wrote to our Year 12s. Here is an extract: I want to let you all know that we are just so immensely proud of you. Year 12 is meant to be a high stakes and
Welcome back to our Junior School campus!
We welcomed our excited Junior School students back to our beautiful Dandenong Road campus this week! Prep students started the week on the oval to their favourite tune ‘The Morning Song’ then skipped into the classroom, ready for a day of fun, laughter and learning. Later they got crafty together, making and creating beautiful bees. This is the first
Welcome back to our Magid campus!
We were thrilled to welcome back some of our students to our Senior School campus this morning! With our newly elected Hanhagah and fellow Year 11 students in their pyjamas to welcome back our Year 6, 7 and 10 students, smiles were had all round. There was even a google meet interface to help the
Our teachers, our heroes
“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.” This quote by renowned author and physician, Dr Helen Caldicott, expresses the incomparable esteem in which our educators should be held. Similarly, playwright George Bernard Shaw stated that “[t]o me the sole hope
Experiential Learning in the ELC & Junior School
As experiential learners, the Jewish people recreate scenes of hut-like dwelling throughout the chag of Sukkot. We build our shelters and ‘live’ in them for the week-long celebration, practising the mitzvah of hachnasat orchim, welcoming guests. Our youngest students in the ELC were tasked with decorating our school sukkah this year and enjoyed visiting,
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Year 8 shows their Passion for Thinking
This week our Year 8 students celebrated the culmination of their term’s work of ‘project based learning’ in a virtual Passion for Thinking evening. The cohort and their families gathered online to hear from several students about their learning journey and then explored each other’s websites. The diversity of passions on show was astounding, ranging
Honouring Eddie Jaku
“There are always miracles in the world, even when all seems hopeless. And when there are no miracles, you can make them happen. With a simple act of kindness, you can save another person from despair, and that might just save their life. And this is the greatest miracle of all.” These inspirational words come