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 […]
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 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
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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 –
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
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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
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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
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This week the KDS Junior Team 3 debated Wesley College in the DAV debating Round 2. 1st speaker was Eli Boymal (Yr8), 2nd speaker Dean Waterson (Yr7) and 3rd speaker Jess Branicki (Yr8). King David School were the affirmative team arguing ‘That we prefer children playing team sports to individual sports’. Speakers on both sides
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This week is National Science Week! To mark this, our educators offered Junior and Senior School students the opportunity to participate in many science experiments from home. The theme this year was “Food: Different by Design” and our students were introduced to game-changing food innovations for the future. In the Junior School, students were able
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I’m not going to lie – this has been a tough week. Melbourne comedian, Titus O’Reilly, aptly summed it up on Twitter earlier this week by stating, “I give today zero stars!” We have all been upset by the news of the violations of COVID-safe protocols from within the community and the extension and tightening