Dear Community,

The late Steve Jobs understood that those who were blessed with the capacity for creative thought were invaluable in achieving success for his ventures. He said: “When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesise new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity.”

The inspirational education theorist Sir Ken Robinson posits in his world famous TED talk, ‘Do schools kill creativity?’ that “creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”

Please see attached for the 5th Edition of the Crown. The School's Student Magazine.

As part of our Rosh Hashanah curriculum, the Senior Kinder children have shown a great deal of interest in bees.

To further their understanding of bees and to answer all our questions, we had an incursion with Fiona Marantelli. Fiona is a Bee Keeper of 5 hives, and she engaged us with an interactive program. We were able to see real bees in a hive, learn new facts about bees, learn a bee song, story and look at dissected bees and the wax. We learnt 6 very interesting fact about bees. Bees have one Queen bee in the hive. Every bee has two antennae. There are three kinds of bees in each hive. Honey bees have four wings, five eyes and six legs. After returning to class the children were abuzz with excited talk about what they learned and enjoyed during the visit.

As part of their studies on the Jews of Russia, Rimma Sverdlin OAM spoke to the Year 9 Jewish Studies students about her life in the FSU before migrating to Australia in the early 1980's. She described the loss of Jewish freedoms and increasing anti-semitism that made Jewish life in the FSU at times unbearable -such as discrimination in high school and university, bullying and intimidation in public places and on trams - just for being Jewish.

Our students were made aware that the Soviet Jewish culture was almost extinguished when the refuseniks led the fight for Jewish freedom. Synagogues, Jewish schools and cultural life disappeared. Rimma recounted stories of Jews just disappearing to be thrown in jail, sent to camps or killed by the KGB. She described the generosity of Jewish organisations that supported her family on leaving the FSU as they struggling refugees in Vienna and Rome, before gaining permission to migrate to Australia. Rimma recalled fondly how our first principal,

Hopefully you managed to see all the fabulous art in the Ten Thousand Hours Exhibition at the ARTKDS Festival on Sunday but if you didn’t, don’t despair. All the artwork can be viewed by clicking into the online catalogue: www.tenthousandhoursexhibition.com.au/online-catalogue/ or in person by appointment (email kdspa@kds.vic.edu.au). See attached for price list.

The KDSPA would like to acknowledge the extraordinary generosity of the 15 artists and two galleries who made this Exhibition possible. All the works were specially commissioned (8“x 10“) for this Exhibition and 100% donated by the Galleries and the artists. This means that the purchase price of each piece we sell 100% benefits the School. It really is a ‘win-win’ situation. You as the purchaser receive a beautiful, unique piece of art and the School receives the money. Any works we don’t sell will be returned to the artists very soon (and we really don’t want to have to do that!) so please do not miss out o

Over the past two weeks in Science, the Year 9s have been exploring continental drift and plate tectonics.

To culminate the unit of work, students have been working in groups to create "slowmation" movies which explore the characteristics and consequences of the different tectonic plate boundaries.

Slowmation is abbreviated from slow motion animation and is an engaging activity that requires students to research and use technology to create their own representations of the theory being studied. As part of the research phase, students must draw and annotate a storyboard before commencing the animation phase. Often students will have to return to the storyboard as they develop their understanding sufficiently to animate their topics.

Milorad Cerovac, Senior Science teacher at the School and Robotics program facilitator, was recently interviewed by LEGO Education (Australia) as part of a teacher feature.

To view the article, please use the following link: https://education.lego.com/en-au/news/teacher-feature-milorad-cerovac

This week the Senior School celebrated Science Week! A celebration of the marvelously diverse discipline that is Science as students were treated to a number of activities throughout the week.

On Tuesday, our senior Science students participated in "Battle of the Sciences" - a Science trivia competition where teams of students battled it out to see which discipline of Science was the best! In the end, it was a Year 10 General Science team that were victorious and the English teacher's team also scored very highly!

Wednesday was Science short films at lunchtime accompanied by popcorn. Students were treated to short films from the International Science film festival as well as the ever popular TED-Ed videos.

Enviroweek is a flexible and adaptable national schools event. Aussie kids can take genuine action on waste, gardening, energy and health projects and see the immediate impact of positive everyday choices – for them, their school and our environment.

Our Junior School students participated in Enviro week with each year level choosing to celebrate in a different way, but all with a focus on sustainability. We started preparing by painting pre loved gumboots, getting them ready for our beautiful new gumboot garden. Next week our students will plant succulent clippings in them to show how we can up cycle or breathe new life into old things that would have otherwise ended up in the landfill.

Prep students did a bin sort and Year 1s explored wants vs needs and their eco footprint.

So many members of our school community rallied together over the last 10 months or so to plan what was a highly ambitious one day event, showcasing art and providing creative experiences. This event constituted the biggest fundraiser, organised by the Parents’ Association for the School this year.

The inaugural ART KDS Festival which took place on Sunday exceeded expectations and provided a day of creative family fun, art appreciation, wonderful food and community spirit.

Lisa Klepfisz, President of KDSPA managed dozens of moving parts in the lead up to the event in order to ensure a successful Festival. A team of dedicated volunteers including Tina Landsberg, Rachel Morley, Zoe Arnott, Monique Rogelberg, Naomi Kark, Jo Messer, Dina Zaitman, Tori Howard, Jen Rosshandler, Kerri Freeman and Pia Abrahams worked tirelessly to deliver a flawless event.

King David School once again had a major presence in the B'nai B'rith Jewish Youth Music Eisteddfod Finals Concert last Sunday.

The concert featured solos from first prize winners Freya Boltman and Daniel Freidgeim, and ensemble performances from both Senior strings and the 8-12 Senior Choir. The Senior Orchestra also received first place in their section, having played original works by our Year 11 VCE Style and Composition students Noa Abrahams and Daniel Freidgeim. All up, KDS sent 14 ensembles into the competition, which set a new record for the event. In recognition of our outstanding music program, KDS received a special trophy and prize money.

The Maths Department invites all students from Prep to Year 12 to participate in the 2017 Maths Competition. Have fun solving weekly Mathematical problems and win a prize at the end of the school year. Please e-mail your full solutions to yulia.dozortsev@kds.vic.edu.au. Congratulations to Sonia Bonich (Year 7) who gave the correct solution for Maths Challenge 22.

Bookings are now open for our much anticipated Years 6-8 Musical - Shrek Jnr. Please use the following link to Trybooking: www.trybooking.com/RMSE

Bookings are now open for our much anticipated Years 6-8 Musical - Shrek Jnr. Please use the following link to Trybooking: www.trybooking.com/RMSE

The 2018 MTC Season looks fabulous!!! There are many amazing plays to choose from including “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time”, one of Australia’s most awarded playwright Patricia Cornelius in “The House of Bernada Alba” , Lisa McCune in “Gloria”, Gina Riley and Simon Gleeson in Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”, Marta Dusseldorp in “A Doll’s House Part 2 and Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece “Twelfth Night”. We have booked our A reserve seats before they are even offered to regular subscribers and managed to avoid all holidays, holydays and long weekends.  Ticket exchanges are easy and free for any 11-play subscribers.  Please see MTC brochure for further details regarding exchanges

The 2018 MTC Season looks fabulous!!! There are many amazing plays to choose from including “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time”, one of Australia’s most awarded playwright Patricia Cornelius in “The House of Bernada Alba” , Lisa McCune in “Gloria”, Gina Riley and Simon Gleeson in Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”, Marta Dusseldorp in “A Doll’s House Part 2 and Geoffrey Rush in Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece “Twelfth Night”. We have booked our A reserve seats before they are even offered to regular subscribers and managed to avoid all holidays, holydays and long weekends.  Ticket exchanges are easy and free for any 11-play subscribers.  Please see MTC brochure for further details regarding exchanges

Friends of KDS invites you to join Dr Helen Light AM who will be talking to Lady Anna Cowen AM about her recently launched book, My Vice Regal Life on Wednesday 27 September. For security purposes, we will advise the location of this event, once you have confirmed your attendance. Please email friends@kds.vic.edu.au

Friends of KDS invites you to join Dr Helen Light AM who will be talking to Lady Anna Cowen AM about her recently launched book, My Vice Regal Life on Wednesday 27 September. For security purposes, we will advise the location of this event, once you have confirmed your attendance. Please email friends@kds.vic.edu.au