Been feeling like those kitchen dance routines could take you professional? Want to take your shower singing to the next level? Developed a new iso creative talent that the world just needs to see? Then this is the place for you! But I have so many talents, how do I choose?! You can present a …
The Unsung Family Hero, written by Dr Paul Gardner should have been launched in April, but a tiny virus intervened. It’s now being launched via a Zoom webinar on Sunday 18 October at 7.30 pm. The book has been entered for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. The Zoom event is being hosted by The King …
The King David School Alumni Association, KDS Connect, is thrilled to present our next webinar in our Industry Pathways series on Wednesday 21 October. In this event, Eytan Lenko, Chair of Beyond Zero Emissions (and KDS parent), will lead a discussion with the newly appointed CEO of the Jewish Climate Network, Joel Lazar and KDS …
Junior School students enjoyed an amazing virtual Rosh Hashanah festival yesterday, exploring themes of Rosh Hashanah through craft, song, stories, discussion, and construction. They were engaged in Jewish experiential learning drawing on their creativity and prompting reflection and debate. The Junior JLife Team wish you all good health and blessings for a sweet new year! …
This week Year 8 celebrated the culmination of their term’s work in a virtual Passion for Thinking evening. After several weeks of planning, research and design of a website portfolio, our Year 8 students presented their Passion for Thinking (P4T) projects to their families. Projects included creating YouTube channels to teach Auslan; starting innovative businesses …
As we come to the end of one of the most challenging terms we have experienced, it is a great time to reflect on our hopes for the new year ahead. One of the unexpected corollaries of the disruption created for KDS during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the way that it has pulled into …
Prep to Year 5 students are buzzing with excitement for the upcoming High Holy Days! We have been hard at work learning about, preparing for and immersing in knowledge of this awesome time of year. And sweet voices have rung out in chorus across Google Meets! Chodesh Elul, the month of Elul which precedes the …
In Mikolot (‘The Voices’), a national public-speaking competition between Jewish schools, Alex Cowen (Year 10) qualified for the finals which was held earlier today. She placed third which is an incredible achievement. Competing against a very strong group of articulate Jewish students from schools nationally, Alex did herself and the School proud. The judges comments …
Like many of you I spent some of last Sunday watching the Premier’s press conference explaining the roadmap from lockdown. It struck me that yet another extraordinary feature of this already bizarre year has been the way that much of the information presented at government press conferences has had a genuine and immediate impact on …
Thank you to Raf Epstein and Prof Sharon Lewin AO for an incredible launch to our KDS Connect Webinar series. Hundreds in our community joined the webinar “Life after Lockdown: Living in a COVID world in 2021 and beyond.” Raf and Sharon’s insights into the challenges faced with the COVID pandemic were inspiring and thought …