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  A huge mazal tov to Year 11 student Alex Cowen who came second place in Mikolot,  the national public speaking competition for Jewish schools. This year students were required to reflect on the High Holy Days through Elie Wiesel’s (1992) words that, “I believe that to be Jewish today means what it meant yesterday and […]

The House Captains were announced at a special sports assembly earlier this week. Mazal tov to Adam Bentata (Galil), Juliette Majman (Arava), Amiel Selzer (Kinneret) and Yoni Ringelblum (Negev)!  The sports assembly also celebrated King David’s sporting success this year, with Jack Hart from the Year 8/9 footy team highlighting their grand final win against

Yesterday our Year 3 and 4 students departed for a two day camp in the beautiful Dandenong’s. The students have been rock climbing, tree surfing, playing Gaga Ball, and bouncing on the trampolines at the campsite. More importantly they have been able to be outside in the fresh air and experiencing nature again. They have been

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

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

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

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

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,

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