Manchester Evening Newspaper report on KDHS recent OFSTED.

Monday 1st July 2019 Shalva and Yehudit Hadari took part in a debating competition at Huddersfield Grammar School.
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They won their group of 4 and then narrowly lost the final to Hedmonwick Grammar School, placing 2nd out of 8 teams overall. Yehudit also won the prize for best speaker in the competition.

51 enthusiastic Year 5 pupils from KD Primary came along to an interactive Maths Problem Solving session in the High School. 
Many thanks to Mrs.Gruber and Mrs.Howarth (Primary) and to Mrs.Goldberg, Mrs.Spindler and Mr.Vincent (High School) for organising a rewarding joint session.

Lucie Wolfenden (Y12) organised charity netball matches in aid of the Papyrus UK charity. 

The first match took place today (Friday 7th) during lunchtime with 30 girls from years 7, 8 and 9. The second is taking place on Friday (14th) during lunchtime for Year 10, 12 and staff. Each participant has made a donated to take part.

Well done Lucie, Miss Barker and all the participants.

Photographs by Dallas Taylor in Y7.

As part of the Y9 Israel Tour, students have been visiting the Old City of Jerusalem and the holiest site in Jweish life, the Kotel. They are having an amazing week together bonding, volunteering and learning about the State of Israel. Many thanks to Rabbi C.Cohen and Mr.Cheetham for leading this experience.

We are proud to announce the introduction of the KD Campus Allotment which will stimulate  and engage student discussion and concern for the living planet, ethical resourcing, climate change and wellbeing.

Students across the campus - from Nursery to High School - will be responsible for the maintenance, development, planning and care of the allotment, and are encouraged to volunteer time and support. They will growing herbs, flowers, planting fruit trees and vegetable beds.

We are looking for parent sponsorship, experience and resourcing to enhance development of this campus-wide project. Many thanks to Mrs.Selby, Miss.Longley and Mr.Cheetham for spearheading this initiative with the KD pupil team.

We wish safe travels and excellent adventures to all the students and staff embarking on the Y9 Israel Tour led by Mr.Cheetham and rabbi Cohen. We look forward to hearing about your stories and experiences when you return.

This term our Year 9 students studying Spanish have been exchanging emails with students from the IES Salvador de Madariaga school in La Coruña, Galicia.They have also recorded and uploaded videos onto a blog to introduce themselves to their penpals. 
On Wednesday 15th May, the group had their first live video conference with the students in Spain.
The session enabled the students from both schools to converse in Spanish and English. It was a great opportunity for  students to develop their Spanish language skills, to learn about the culture of Spain, to form friendships abroad and improve their confidence in spoken Spanish.
Many thanks to all students involved. It was a great success. ​

Yesterday saw the culmination of the Yavneh girls Brachot campaign this term, in memory of Sarah Goldman. Each year group had to accumulate as many Brachot as possible. This was all recorded on a chart in the Yavneh hall. The girls have all been really enthusiastic and one  could hear lots of Brachot bring recited as you passed their classrooms. The winning class was year Ten, who will be treated to a meal in a restaurant after Pesach.

Bogrot (former students who have just returned from Seminary in Israel led discussion groups. We completed this term with a Brachot party which was enjoyed by all.

nThis event was organised by Mrs Hoffner.

​Yavneh girls held their own Israeli mock elections today. The Likud party were firmly in the lead with Shas in second place.

This was organised by Mrs.Hoffner with help from Year 10 who hosted the polling station and Year 8 who prepared the ballot cards.

Mr Roth addressed students in year 9 about the important work of Keren Malki. Malki Roth was tragically murdered by a suicide bomber in 2001 aged just 15. During the Shiva the family discussed how they would memorialise her. Keren Malki the Malki Foundation provides material and financial help to families with special needs children. Their help is available to all citizens of the State of Israel in all areas of the country.  Keren Malki is this year’s chosen charity. Students were invigorated after the talk and discussed ways that their groups could raise even more money to help the foundation with its vital work. 

A weekly parasha (torah portion) sheet is now available for download. Written with the students in mind, it is ideal for discussion at home, across the Friday night dinner table and study. We hope you enjoy.

On Sunday 10th Feb, 5 of our Y12 Physicists together with Head of Physics, Mr.Curati, took part in the Weizman institute safe cracking competition. 

Hosted once again by Dulwich college KD's safe did very well, only being cracked the once.  The team consisting of Hinda Perez, Alex Harris, Zak Feingold, Ruben Burton and Olivia Zemmel enjoyed the day.  With 24 other competing safes there was strong competition from independent and state schools. 

​As well as meeting other young Physics students we also met up with one of our alumna Charlotte Zemmel who was working in her capacity as one of the expert judges.

Year 13 Religious Studies students accompanied Rabbi Rickman to a Holocaust Memorial Day event at Home Cinema.

The national focus this year is the trauma of being "Torn from Home". Students watched cutting edge films depicting the horrors of leaving all that is familiar and comfortable. Holocaust survivor Danny Herman addressed the audience, sharing anecdotes of his own story during the war years. “Our students were a credit to the school. They took part in discussions about the films and engaged with themes in a very mature way , said Rabbi Rickman.

​JNF UK are pleased to confirm that King David High School, Manchester has been selected as one of the 18 Jewish schools across the country to receive a grant from JNF UK for their Israel education programme.

​During the past two weeks, the U13 & U16 Table Tennis Singles Championships has taken place, our 13 students performed admirably representing the school impeccably.
 
At U16 Level, Charlotte Myer was the overall Runner up, assisting her GCSE Practical Table Tennis score.
 
At U13 Level, Jay Saipe claimed a Bronze medal against a very strong field and Jodie Lee performed amazingly as a Y7 against several Y8 students to win the U13 Girls Championships claiming Gold.

King David High School hosted an evening of commemoration of the Jewish NW men and women who served in WWI. This evening was attended by the Lord Mayor of Manchester and Bury and other local dignitaries. Dr.Hitching presented new insight to the experience for North West Jewish men and women and readings from Jewish trench diarists, letters, poetry and newspapers illustrated the extraordinary contribution made by national Jewry.

Charlie Silvert from Y12 opened the readings with a 1914 editorial from the Jewish Chronicle which urged men and women to volunteer for service as loyal Britons and Jews.

​For more information and involvement, please visit the We Were There Too website.