Insights

I would like to share with you an extract from my speech from this week’s Back to School Service. The Back to School Service is our acknowledgement of the promise of the school year. It is also a chance for our community to celebrate the contributions of extraordinary staff members and students who do so […]

I have been thinking a lot about the term “community”. It seems so automatic that I address you as “community” in this column, but it really is yet another expression of the prioritisation of the warm relationships that we work so hard to foster here amongst the staff, students and families of The King David

At last year’s Back to School Service I spoke to our students about what makes a good beginning. I discussed classic movies, literature and of course took the opportunity to encourage our students and staff to make the most of the start to the new school year.  I am thrilled to report that we have

In 2017, King David School alum, Nevo Zisin, inscribed a message in a copy of their powerful autobiography “Finding Nevo” for the students of King David. Nevo is a fierce advocate and activist for the rights of LGBTIQA+ people and wrote: “To the person at King David that reads this, you are not alone, you

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

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

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

There was a brief moment at a School Council meeting towards the end of 2020 when one of our Council members highlighted that we had not raised the COVID-19 emergency during our discussions that evening. It was a remarkable signal of the positivity and optimism we felt at the time and the naive assumption that

At the heart of King David’s curricular and co-curricular programming, our culture and our Jewish life experiences, lies a commitment to our core values of inclusivity, egalitarianism and social justice. This is exercised in myriad ways in our approach to school life. We have a strong commitment to empowering individuals, no matter their particular attributes

Joining under the banner of “Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change”, delegates have been meeting in Glasgow over the last fortnight at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26). COP 26 is billed on its website as “an event many believe to be the world’s best last chance to get