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 […]
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
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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 are now half way through the end-of-year VCE examination period. In the lead up to the exam period I wrote to our Year 12s. Here is an extract: I want to let you all know that we are just so immensely proud of you. Year 12 is meant to be a high stakes and
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
“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.” This quote by renowned author and physician, Dr Helen Caldicott, expresses the incomparable esteem in which our educators should be held. Similarly, playwright George Bernard Shaw stated that “[t]o me the sole hope
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,
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The King David School acknowledges the Bunurong/Boon Wurrung and the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation as Traditional Owners of the land on which we are fortunate to teach and learn. We also acknowledge Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. In the spirit of tikkun olam, we seek to ‘learn and understand’ the history, struggle and culture of our First Nations People. We pay our respects to them and to their Elders past and present.