The King David Foundation hosted this week’s Business Breakfast, with the theme being innovation and entrepreneurship. Our school is acknowledged as a leader in this space, being recently honoured with an Innovative Schools Award by the Educator online magazine, recognised as “making a profound and exciting impact in education today” and also “a pioneer in […]
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“More than Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.” This powerful quote from Ahad Ha’am was meaningfully explored at our Year 7 Kabbalat Mitzvah ceremony this week. The Kabbalat Mitzvah is a significant milestone event for King David students. It acknowledges the important moment that occurs around this time as they reach their
Students were feeling HOT-HOT-HOT by the Lag BaOmer bonfire today! Marking the 33rd day of the Omer, we listened to stories of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai whilst tucking into delicious baked potatoes and sticky toasted marshmallow treats! Each of us had a turn to show off our archery skills as well as
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What a busy and exciting two weeks we had in Prep. For the last two weeks in Hebrew, we learnt about fruit. We learnt the Hebrew name and colour of each fruit. We also created a memory game to play with our friends and family. At the end of the week, we enjoyed eating all
The Year 4s have had a busy start to Term Two! They’ve explored poetry and even attempted to co-construct a definition of what a poem is. Mika’s definition was appreciated by all (and even sparked a debate as to whether her definition was a poem in itself!):Some poems are scary. Some are beautiful.There are even
A powerful metaphor for describing contemporary education is that it should focus on the head, heart and hands. Here, the head references the cognitive development and knowledge acquisition that is so central to all learning. The heart refers to values and focus on student wellbeing and key interpersonal skills. The hands are the pragmatic life
These are some of the phrases that were heard on the Polly Woodside ship. Our Year 4s experienced first-hand what it would have been like to live as a crew member or passenger aboard the ship. This experience provided a newfound perspective for our students as they made connections to the voyages of studies of
Today Senior School students attended a moving ANZAC Day ceremony in advance of this weekend’s commemoration. The theme for this year was First Nation ANZACS and students heard from Indigenous educator Aleryk Fricker, history lecturer from RMIT who belongs to the Dja Dja Wurrung people who spoke movingly about his own family’s experiences. Students learned
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.” This quote by Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, expresses the view that a
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On Monday this week, the School commemorated Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a moving and sombre Senior School assembly organised by our students, and included an address by child survivor, Danielle Charak. Ella Carmeli-Wolski (Year 10), Shana Epstein (Year 10) and Yoni Ringelblum (Year 11) sang the powerful and inspirational Partisan song in Yiddish,
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