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We welcomed our excited Junior School students back to our beautiful Dandenong Road campus this week!  Prep students started the week on the oval to their favourite tune ‘The Morning Song’ then skipped into the classroom, ready for a day of fun, laughter and learning. Later they got crafty together, making and creating beautiful bees. This is the first […]

We were thrilled to welcome back some of our students to our Senior School campus this morning!  With our newly elected Hanhagah and fellow Year 11 students in their pyjamas to welcome back our Year 6, 7 and 10 students, smiles were had all round. There was even a google meet interface to help the

As experiential learners, the Jewish people recreate scenes of hut-like dwelling throughout the chag of Sukkot. We build our shelters and ‘live’ in them for the week-long celebration, practising the mitzvah of hachnasat orchim, welcoming guests.    Our youngest students in the ELC were tasked with decorating our school sukkah this year and enjoyed visiting,

This week our Year 8 students celebrated the culmination of their term’s work of ‘project based learning’ in a virtual Passion for Thinking evening. The cohort and their families gathered online to hear from several students about their learning journey and then explored each other’s websites. The diversity of passions on show was astounding, ranging

During the holidays, we were incredibly pleased to partner with Airlie Women’s Clinic to offer the Pfizer vaccine to King David students and staff. With many fully vaccinated staff volunteers on site to help, we efficiently vaccinated a significant number of our community. We are thrilled that we were able to contribute to safety of

R U OK? Day is dedicated to inspiring and empowering everyone to meaningfully connect with people around them by asking the simple question “Are you OK?” It’s a day to remind us to offer support in an event that others are struggling, especially during these uncertain times. Gan Gefen and Gan Zayit students participated in activities encouraging kindness, empathy and love. Together we watched Yelena’s puppet

King David students across the Junior and Senior schools are taking part in our ‘Eddie Jaku Happiness Project’, inspired by Eddie Jaku. Following Eddie’s insight that “happiness is the only thing in the world that doubles each time you share it”, students and their families are spreading happiness by doing something for others. To view

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

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