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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

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

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

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

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

What better way in this era of lockdown living, to sweeten the coming of Shabbat and to herald Rosh HaShanah than with some home baking, singing and dancing?! “Sweet as honey, sweet as honey…” On Friday afternoon, Year 5s enjoyed a fabulous JLife Chodesh Elul Shabbat Bake. With smiles on their faces, they showed off

After patiently waiting for seven weeks while their olives cured in salt, students have spent the last few weeks rinsing their creations to get them ready to eat. Last week they added garlic, rosemary from our Kindergarten, vinegar and olive oil. This week, Gan Zayit students talked about the meaning of the word ‘Zayit’ (olives!),