At last year’s Back to School Service I spoke to our students about what makes a good beginning. I discussed classic movies, literature and of course took the opportunity to encourage our students and staff to make the most of the start to the new school year. I am thrilled to report that we have […]
In 2017, King David School alum, Nevo Zisin, inscribed a message in a copy of their powerful autobiography “Finding Nevo” for the students of King David. Nevo is a fierce advocate and activist for the rights of LGBTIQA+ people and wrote: “To the person at King David that reads this, you are not alone, you
Welcome to the 2022 school year! I would like to share with you my speech to our Senior School students from this week’s opening assembly. Born from Dreams and a Vision… Today I want to talk to you about dreams. Our beautiful school was founded on a dream and I know that the reality that
With an enormous flurry of activity, our school year is drawing to a close. Given the array of camps, drama festivals, graduation ceremonies, Kadima days and excursions that we are undertaking, I am sure that our students will be suitably exhausted by the middle of next week. We are very grateful that we have been
On December 6 1938, Yorta Yorta man, William Cooper, famously led a march from his home to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a protest letter about the Nazi attrocities that occurred in Germany a month earlier on Kristalnacht. This unprecedented and brave show of morality marks a model of mutual support that continues
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There was a brief moment at a School Council meeting towards the end of 2020 when one of our Council members highlighted that we had not raised the COVID-19 emergency during our discussions that evening. It was a remarkable signal of the positivity and optimism we felt at the time and the naive assumption that
At the heart of King David’s curricular and co-curricular programming, our culture and our Jewish life experiences, lies a commitment to our core values of inclusivity, egalitarianism and social justice. This is exercised in myriad ways in our approach to school life. We have a strong commitment to empowering individuals, no matter their particular attributes
Joining under the banner of “Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change”, delegates have been meeting in Glasgow over the last fortnight at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26). COP 26 is billed on its website as “an event many believe to be the world’s best last chance to get
We are now half way through the end-of-year VCE examination period. In the lead up to the exam period I wrote to our Year 12s. Here is an extract: I want to let you all know that we are just so immensely proud of you. Year 12 is meant to be a high stakes and
“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.” This quote by renowned author and physician, Dr Helen Caldicott, expresses the incomparable esteem in which our educators should be held. Similarly, playwright George Bernard Shaw stated that “[t]o me the sole hope