This term the Year 5 Tzedakah Vaadah (Charity Committee) organised a Junior School Food Drive for Food Bank Victoria. This involved organising set items to be donated by different year levels, creating posters with information on what to donate, setting up a collection point, gathering a final inventory and raising awareness of the charity work […]
It was a festival of celebration in advance of Rosh HaShanah at the ELC and Junior School today. Activities were all centred around Rosh HaShanah themes and included a bee experience, tashlich, baking round challot and making honey joys. Year 5 students visited the Junior Kinder children and read Rosh HaShanah stories together and created
From Tuesday to Thursday, students diligently prepared Ted Talks on a topic about which they are passionate. These subjects ranged from ‘The Causes of Global Warming’ to ‘Eczema Education’. On Thursday evening, following significant preparation and rehearsal, students confidently shared their passions with their peers, families, and staff from The King David School. We all,
This week I had the great honour of being invited to sound the shofar for all of our ELC students. Experiencing their unrivalled delight in the ritual was joy enough, so too was their excitement in feeling the textures, chanting the notes and counting aloud as I performed the Tekiyah Gadolah. But, for me, the best
Our Years 3-5 students were the stars of the stage this week, performing their musical and dramatic production of Back from the Future to enthralled students and families. Written and directed by our very own Nissim Ben-Salamon, each class showcased the link between school subjects and possible careers in adult life. With authors, accountants, artists,
We were taken from Canaan to Egypt earlier this week, travelling with Joseph as he lost and gained his technicolour dreamcoat in our Years 6-9 Musical, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Along the way we bopped to the story told through country western, calypso and rock ‘n’ roll by our amazing performers.
We have just received notification that The King David School has been recognised as a 5-Star Innovative Schools 2024 winner by The Educator for our Integrated English program in the Junior School. This is a remarkable achievement and a testament to the school’s commitment to innovation and excellence. The implementation of Integrated English at our
Every now and then I walk around the School and am overcome with a mix of conflicting emotions. I feel such pride in the breadth of opportunities that we are able to provide for our students while simultaneously feeling jealous that these young people are so fortunate to have access to an holistic education that
Wow! It’s Elul already – and this week we marked Rosh Chodesh Elul together with our Junior School assembly. In the last month of the Jewish calendar, we hear the sound of the shofar each day, like an alarm clock waking each of us up to consider our actions of the past year and prepare
What does “family” mean to you? Our Junior School students took a deep dive into this question as part of Yom HaMishpachah (Family Day), where parent and grandparent volunteers assisted our students in brainstorming key words that represented “family” and then matched these words to different colours. Small groups worked collaboratively to create spectacular collages
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The King David School acknowledges the Bunurong/Boon Wurrung and the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation as Traditional Owners of the land on which we are fortunate to teach and learn. We also acknowledge Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. In the spirit of tikkun olam, we seek to ‘learn and understand’ the history, struggle and culture of our First Nations People. We pay our respects to them and to their Elders past and present.