A record capacity of over 400 guests attended our Business Breakfast which was held on Wednesday this week in the Ballroom of the Park Hyatt Hotel.

This year was the tenth in the series of Business Breakfasts launched in 2003 and has been heralded as the most successful.

The event was Emceed by David Opat, Head of Junior School and a group of ten Year 11 students were given the honour of assisting with registration of guests, ushering as well as selling raffle tickets. They represented the School with pride and dignity.

Mark Harrison, School Council President spoke about The King David School Scholarship Program and then introduced Year 11 student, Itai Franco, who is a Performing Arts Scholarship recipient. He sang Anthem, from the musical Chess, accompanied by Victoria Lok on keyboard.

Guest speaker, Premier of Victoria, The Hon Dr Denis Napthine was introduced by David Southwick, Member for Caulfield and he was full of praise for our School and the programs we are i

Members of The King David School's FIRST Robotics team recently hosted Chantel Garcia from Monash University.

Chantel was introduced to our School by Macquarie University and Google. She is in the process of completing her Information Technology degree at Monash, and will be joining the team as one of our new software mentors. Chantel will be running a number of programming workshops for the students, and will also be a wonderful role model for the female students on our team. We warmly welcome Chantel and hope that more female KDS students will consider joining our Robotics team.

Rebecca Sadique's submission on Jewish Identity for the upcoming Year 7 Kabbalat Torah celebration was published in this month's Jewish Holocaust Center of Australia's journal, "The Voice". Please find a copy of the essay as it appeared in the journal, attached.

On Wednesday 25 September, English Learning Area Leader Ben Williamson attended the Australian Curriculum Studies Association Conference in Darwin over three days.

Experts from around the Country spoke to a delegation of academics, teachers and policy-makers about the issues and challenges facing education in Australia as the new nation-wide curriculum becomes mandatory.

The Maths Department of Magid Institute invites all students to participate in the 2013 Maths Challenge.

Please email your full solutions to yulia.dozortsev@kds.vic.edu.au by Wednesday every week.

Congratulations to Adam Black, Jory Braun, Daniel Freidgeim, Robert Geller, Nathan Kazakevich, Romi Lazarus, Tomer Moses and Rafael Unger for submitting the correct solution for the Challenge 25.

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On Friday 4 October, Senior Kindergarten families joined in the Hall to celebrate Shabbat and a Havdallah themed Parent and Child Education (PACE) session. The session was led by Stephanie, Coordinator of the Centre of Living Judaism (CLJ), with music by Shannyn on the guitar.

Families and their children participated in three activities – painting a glass kiddush cup, making a lavender scent bag and rolling and twisting beeswax sheets into Havdallah candles.

Thank you to Stephanie and Shannyn for organising and leading this enjoyable afternoon session. Thank you also to the Senior Kindergarten Teachers for assisting with the activities. We hope that everyone enjoyed their afternoon with us and get to use their PACE goodies to stimulate their five senses at home. A lovely link between Kindergarten and home.
Shabbat Shalom,

On the evening of Tuesday 1 October, the Year 12 Theatre Studies class put on a triumphant performance of the annual Year 12 Monologues for the benefit of parents and friends.

This evening is a valuable opportunity for Theatre students to show off their work to an audience in preparation for their performance in front of a judging panel in their final Theatre Performance Exam (scheduled this year for 18 October).

This year, the monologues chosen came from such diverse plays as Tamberlaine by Christopher Marlowe (a contemporary of Shakespeare) and Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron, a 21st-century Australian play. The Year 12 students have put a great deal of effort into their Monologues. In the final exam, they will have to give a convincing and memorable portrayal of their character with a great deal of emotion, all within the time frame of seven minutes.

KDSPA Book Fair Sunday 27 October 10am to 1pm Through a kind and generous donation, we have sourced brand new books of all genre's from a local bookstore which has recently closed its doors. There will be 1000's of books to choose from at absolute bargain basement prices. From as little as $5 you can pick up brand new releases from fiction, non-fiction, coffee table books, travel, teenage, health and more. They make great gifts so bring your friends and family.

TBI invite you to a showing of the film, The Butler on Sunday 27 October at Palace Brighton. See atatched for details.

It's time to celebrate the end of another great school year and for the first time ever, the KDSPA are holding a celebration party. You are all invited to the KDSPA Touch of 80's Party. It will be held on Saturday 16 November from 8pm at The Space (off Chapel St, Prahran) and will be an 80's themed night. Locally and internationally renowned DJ CeeJay will entertain us and alcohol and food is included in the entry price. Bring your partners, friends and family for a great night out. We have made it easy for you to purchase tickets online. Please click here.

Chetzi Shabbaton A Havdallah program and dinner for the whole family Saturday 12th October, 4:30-8pm