An Evening with Peggy O’Neal AO
KDSPA presents a free webinar on Thursday 14 October at 8pm. Peggy O’Neal AO, President, Richmond Football Club in conversation with Raf Epstein.
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Junior Kinder asks ‘R U OK?’
R U OK? Day is dedicated to inspiring and empowering everyone to meaningfully connect with people around them by asking the simple question “Are you OK?” It’s a day to remind us to offer support in an event that others are struggling, especially during these uncertain times. Gan Gefen and Gan Zayit students participated in activities encouraging kindness, empathy and love. Together we watched Yelena’s puppet …
The Eddie Jaku Project – sharing happiness
King David students across the Junior and Senior schools are taking part in our ‘Eddie Jaku Happiness Project’, inspired by Eddie Jaku. Following Eddie’s insight that “happiness is the only thing in the world that doubles each time you share it”, students and their families are spreading happiness by doing something for others. To view …
Looking inwards
We are well within the Days of Awe between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, where our tradition teaches that it is time to acknowledge past wrongdoings and look forwards with commitment to striving to be our best selves in the year ahead. We all appreciate what a difficult year this has been. We have all …
Students and Staff learn how we can help Afghanistan
KDS Students and staff joined Gideon Reisner from Stand Up for a lunchtime seminar to learn more information about the current situation in Afghanistan. Gideon placed the rise of the Taliban into historical context, starting with tensions between Great Britain and Russia in the 19th century. Gideon charted the interventions of Russia, Great Britain and …
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The great round challah bake
The great round challah bake In the lead up to Rosh HaShanah, Junior School students and their families joined in our virtual great round challah bake! Louise Lowinger taught students how to make round challah, and then amazed us with her variations: challah shaped like a flower, a pull-apart loaf, and challah braided like a …
Shana Tova
A phenomenon of living in the Diaspora is the dualism involved in simultaneously keeping in mind our secular and Jewish life experiences. This can affect us at many levels but one pragmatic one is holding two conflicting calendars in consideration. There are times when this can prove challenging, for instance the dreaded Yom Kippur – …
Shakespeare in our homes
A drum, a drum Shakespere doth come… Years 8 and 9 English students played the audience to performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth respectively. While Lysander cautions Hermia to remember that “the course of true love never did run smooth”, luckily for us the course of virtual live productions ran very smoothly indeed. From the drama and suspense …
Book Week at the Junior School
Book Week at the Junior School has been in full swing. We started with KDS alumnus Steven Krygger reading his book I think that it’s a Monster to Prep students and KDS parent Sarah Krasnostein speaking to students about being a writer. After a big week of books large and small, students dressed up as their most …
Our resilient Year 12 students
At the start of this year I addressed our Year 12s with a great sense of optimism about what lay ahead of them. At that stage, we had been largely free of restrictions since November, except for a brief reduction in gathering numbers and a mask mandate on New Years Eve. Things were certainly looking …