Insights

It is a bitter-sweet time to draw the school year to a close. Sadly we do this in the shadow of last week’s terrible terrorist attack on the Adass Israel shule and the surge in domestic antisemitism. Yet we must also acknowledge the joy of our community and the blessings of a school year that […]

Next week we will farewell our longest standing employee, Cathy Kaiserman. Cathy began at The King David School in 1989 and has devoted the last 35 years of her life to giving her all for the achievements of our school, her colleagues and our students. Over her time at our school there is barely an

Like so many of you, I spent last Sunday at our famous King’s Carnival.  Alongside the nervous members of the King David School Parents’ Association, I experienced a sleepless Saturday night with repeated checks of various weather apps looking for a second, third and fourth opinion in the hope that the expected rain would stay

I would like to share with you an extract from the speech I delivered to our Year 12s (Shichvat Lavi) at last night’s Graduation Dinner: So Shichvat Lavi, your time has come. You have reached graduation and are ready to be let loose on an unsuspecting world. Many of you have had B’nei Mitzvah, indeed

In his global bestseller The Anxious Generation, acclaimed American author and social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, opens with a powerful hypothetical. Haidt offers a fictional scenario where the reader’s 10 year old daughter has been selected for a spot on an exploratory mission to Mars. The reader does not recall consenting to her application. Haidt writes: “unbeknownst

20 years ago at this time of year, I completed my teaching qualifications and embarked on what has proven to be a wonderfully fulfilling career experience. From the very beginning, I found teaching to be an enormously meaningful, uplifting and rewarding vocation.  You will, no doubt, have read of the many challenges that are being

This week we were privileged to host renowned UK educator, Tom Sherrington, at our school. Tom is the author of the WalkThrus framework that we have adopted at Magid Campus. WalkThrus is a series of high impact, evidence-based teaching strategies that have been shown to increase the opportunities for learning for all students. Good schools focus on enhancing professional

Last week we conducted our Celebration Day in honour of the graduating class of 2024, who are also known as Shichvat Lavi. It was a very moving occasion where the staff and students of Magid Campus came together to acknowledge the significant impact that the cohort have made upon the School. The day was filled

his week we marked the anniversary of the day that caused such devastation and has reshaped so much of the world. One year on from the tragedy of October 7 2023, we have a series of searing images scored into our collective psyche. The deliberate but indiscriminate slaughter of people of all stages of life.

This week I had the great honour of being invited to sound the shofar for all of our ELC students. Experiencing their unrivalled delight in the ritual was joy enough, so too was their excitement in feeling the textures, chanting the notes and counting aloud as I performed the Tekiyah Gadolah. But, for me, the best