Archive for March, 2012

From the Brink of Extinction to the Classroom

The King David School has entered into a partnership with Zoos Victoria in a world first conservation project. From over 100 applications we have been invited to join the fight to save the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect (LHISI).

Presumed extinct for the past 80 years, LHISI were once common on Lord Howe Island. Tragically, a supply ship ran aground there in 1918, releasing rats onto the island. Along with five species of birds, the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect had ...

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Book Launch

Recently, educationalists from schools across Melbourne involved in teaching Religion and Society as a VCE subject, gathered at the Rebecca Magid Centre, The King David School, to celebrate the launch of the textbook, Religion and Society, Units 1-4, published by Macmillan.

This textbook was written by our own Jewish Studies staff Shayndel Samuel and Damien Green who both teach VCE Religion and Society at Magid Institute. Michele Bernshaw (Principal) in her address at the launch said “ both Shayndel Samuel and ...

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Concern for Cancer

Year 6 students got Charity events of the year underway with a popular Magid Bake Sale. Year 3 and 4 students were first to be served as the boys raised money by selling cookies, muffins, tarts, fruit juice etc. Eager crowds jostled at lunchtime on the 24th of February to raise money for the McGrath Foundation to train breast care nurses in the community. In the photo we see Gai, Elijah, Ashley, Raphael and Shannon setting up their tables ...

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