The King David School

Our School offers the finest education that equips our students with the key attributes, skills and knowledge to thrive in the world that they will graduate into. This is done in a warm and haimish (homely) environment in which each student is cherished. We focus on fostering our students’ self confidence and emotional intelligence, to strive for excellence and use their achievements to create a better Australia, and indeed, a better world around them. Our values of Modern Thinking Judaism inform every aspect of our School life.

As you explore the website, I encourage you to take note of the extraordinary opportunities on offer both in and out of the classroom.  You can read about The King David School’s excellent VCE results, our outstanding Visual and Performing Arts provision, our world class robotics program and our commitment to sporting success. Through our wonderful Jewish Life team, the School provides meaningful, engaging and positive encounters with Judaism and Israel and enhances our students’ Jewish and Zionist identity.

The School’s founders, Isador Magid AO, and Rabbi John Levi AO DD both stand as role models for our students and teachers alike by virtue of their dedication to learning and enlightenment. So too, does my predecessor, Michele Bernshaw who has, with her incredible dedication over 14 plus years of service, fostered an environment of community, which promotes critical enquiry, positive relationships and the embracing of difference.

When examining what is most valued about our School and why it is that people are so proud to be associated with King David, it is clear to me that students, staff, families and other key stakeholders in the wider School community all cherish the strong bond and relationships that exist between staff, students and families and the sense that everyone is considered to be a vital part of the community for the unique characteristics that they bring.

The King David School is a progressive Jewish school established on the principles of inclusion, egalitarianism and social justice. It is committed to engendering within its students a love of learning, a deep and abiding sense of community, a strong and proud Australian identity and a close and meaningful relationship with the Land and State of Israel.

The King David School exists to provide both excellence and opportunity in education. It will foster the development of each individual student in its care paying careful attention and respect to his or her unique needs, abilities and aspirations. It will fulfil its goals with reference and respect to the contemporary Australian society within which it is so fortunate to exist:

• Through the provision of an educational environment that is at all times challenging, nurturing and appropriate to the needs of its students
• Through the provision of an environment that promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children with diverse needs and/or backgrounds, and protects them from abuse, harm, neglect, and the threat of harm.
• Through engaging and innovative co-curricular activities
• Through close, active and practical engagement in Jewish communal activities
• through social justice programs and interfaith initiatives

The King David School will strive:

• To be recognised as a provider of educational outcomes which are second to none
• To deliver the highest possible standards of facilities and resources for the benefit of its students and the broader community
• To maintain a strong community profile and to support both the Jewish and the Australian communities within which it operates
• To develop strategic educational partnerships which will benefit students, staff and the broader school community
• To achieve its goals within a secure and responsible fiscal framework
• To resolutely and consistently focus on the responsibility to nurture, develop and indeed cherish each unique and exceptional child which the School has been created to serve and which it has the privilege to serve.

Pre-School Centre
76 Alma Road, St Kilda, Victoria 3182
Tel: 03 95207700
Email: preschool@kds.vic.edu.au

Kindergarten & Junior School
373 Dandenong Road, Armadale, Victoria 3143
Tel: 03 92917979
Email:junior.school@kds.vic.edu.au