This week the KDS Junior Team 3 debated Wesley College in the DAV debating Round 2. 1st speaker was Eli Boymal (Yr8), 2nd speaker Dean Waterson (Yr7) and 3rd speaker Jess Branicki (Yr8). King David School were the affirmative team arguing ‘That we prefer children playing team sports to individual sports’. Speakers on both sides […]
This week is National Science Week! To mark this, our educators offered Junior and Senior School students the opportunity to participate in many science experiments from home. The theme this year was “Food: Different by Design” and our students were introduced to game-changing food innovations for the future. In the Junior School, students were able
I’m not going to lie – this has been a tough week. Melbourne comedian, Titus O’Reilly, aptly summed it up on Twitter earlier this week by stating, “I give today zero stars!” We have all been upset by the news of the violations of COVID-safe protocols from within the community and the extension and tightening
What better way in this era of lockdown living, to sweeten the coming of Shabbat and to herald Rosh HaShanah than with some home baking, singing and dancing?! “Sweet as honey, sweet as honey…” On Friday afternoon, Year 5s enjoyed a fabulous JLife Chodesh Elul Shabbat Bake. With smiles on their faces, they showed off
After patiently waiting for seven weeks while their olives cured in salt, students have spent the last few weeks rinsing their creations to get them ready to eat. Last week they added garlic, rosemary from our Kindergarten, vinegar and olive oil. This week, Gan Zayit students talked about the meaning of the word ‘Zayit’ (olives!),
One day, Honi was walking along the way and he saw a man who was going to plant a carob tree. Honi said to him: how many years until it will bear fruit? The man answered: 70 years. Honi asked: is it clear that you will be alive in 70 years? The man answered: I
This week the Senior Kinder cohort came together to participate in their very own Olympic Games. In the lead up to the special day, all children participated in a range of activities, learning about the history of the games, the sporting events and the special ceremonies. We made Olympic torches and salt dough medals, as
With us currently in Lockdown 6.0, we are feeling even more blessed that the Years 9 to 12 musical, Wizard of Oz, was performed, albeit for one limited audience performance, on Sunday evening. The show was spectacular and brilliantly showcased the talents of our students, both in front of the stage and backstage. The orchestra
I am sure that, like me, many of you have been transfixed by the wonderful exploits at the Tokyo Olympics this past fortnight. The Olympics has provided us with an opportunity to see incredible individual and team performances and has also offered unique lessons into the best of sportsmanship and internationally shared values and goals.
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The focus for Year 8 Design Technology in Semester 1 was learning all about something we all probably take for granted, our hands. Students learnt about the anatomy of the hand and created a cardboard prototype of a hand to simulate tendons and simple hand movements. Students then learnt about individuals with a limb difference,
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