On Tuesday, we commemorated Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (known as Yom HaShoah) with a special assembly. We marked 80 years since the Warsaw Uprising with the assembly’s theme ‘resistance’. We heard poetry and songs written in the Warsaw and Vilna ghettos. We were extremely privileged to hear from student Leo Aarons’s grandmother Miriam Skurnik, who […]
This just in: Negev have taken top spot at the Years 6-12 Athletics Carnival, after previously winning the Swimming Carnival earlier this year! Kol HaKavod Negev!
What a day! Our KDS family came together at King’s Carnival for the first time since 2019, showcasing the warm community spirit of our school. Heartfelt thanks to the KDSPA, Carnival Committee and the army of parent, staff and student volunteers who made this day happen. With delicious food, rides, sideshow games, fun arts and
On Wednesday was the Stop Motion Expo in Year 4 classrooms. The students got to show off their actualising of their unit Habit of Mind: Creativity, Imagination and Innovation. Every student had built their own set, characters and props. In addition to this they had written a script for a short story, fit for Stop
It’s that wonderful time of the year again – Nisan – when we get to join b’yachad (together) to celebrate being b’nai chorin (free people) at our Pesach s’darim. Parents, grandparents and special friends joined our Prep to Year 2 students at each of their s’darim, and our Years 3 – 5 students loved being together as a cohort
All our hard work preparing for our Pesach S’darim really paid off! We watched with pride as the children engaged, sang, danced, and yelled out answers to all of Louise’s questions. Celebrating together with our families, we read from our Haggadot, sang, ate symbolic foods, and dressed up in costumes that resembled the main characters
Yesterday the Junior Kinder classes, along with Pre-Kinder, joined together to participate in a very special Pesach activity. Using Charoset, the children got the opportunity to think and learn about how the Avadim made bricks to build cities and palaces in Mitzrayim all those years ago.
Across the Junior School the sounds of Pesach are in the air as children sing and act their way through the Haggadah. Positioning themselves in the shoes of our ancestors, the Year 3 students were thrilled by a visit from Rabbi Yossi and his travelling Matzah Factory.
Our strongest Years 7 to 11 swimmers competed in the EISM Swimming Carnival this week. The Carnival featured 16 schools from all over Melbourne. We are so proud of our students for their great display of fair play and team spirit. Some highlights were the performances of the Senior Boys’ Medley Relay, u14 Girls’ Relay
Last year the Sustainability Committee (Year 5 students) Va’ad Echut HaSviva created a beautiful mural out of recycled bottle caps. The Va’ad collected the bottle caps, designed the mural and helped drill, stick and paint them onto the wall. The mural, titled ‘Outcap Sunset’ is of an Australian outback sunset and has two koalas sitting
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