Australasian Philosothon 2020
The King David School had the privilege of participating in the 2020 Australasian Philosothon, held on the 29th and 30th of September.
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Solar panels now installed across the School
Please watch the following video about the exciting completion of solar panel installation across the School: https://vimeo.com/465603523/dce6a1c9b1
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The Age of Insecurity
Ordinarily, we would be beginning Term 4 by hosting our students for meals and experiences in our school sukkot. Unfortunately, due to Distance Learning, this year only our ELC students have been able to partake in this annual tradition during the chag. The festival of Sukkot is one that resonates deeply with the values of
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Rosh Hashanah festival in the Junior School
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!
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Passion for Thinking in Year 8
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
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Hopeful beginnings of a better tomorrow
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
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Junior School Buzzes for Rosh Hashanah!
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
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Alex Cowen impresses at National Mikalot Finals
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
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Our collective sacrifices
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
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Making salt dough in Prep
The Preps recently finished a three-week art unit on modelling – and instead of clay, we all made our own salt dough! The students met online with all their ingredients ready and enjoyed mixing and kneading the dough, then experimenting with different tools (forks, pencils, whisks and whatever was at hand) to see what kinds
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