The King David High School

Parents Evenings: Reminder

27/10/2023

Parents Evenings:
Main School
Year 7             Thursday 7th March 2024
Year 8             Wednesday 28th February 2024
Year 9             Tuesday 6th February 2024
Year 10           Thursday 1st February 2024
Year 11           Wednesday 6th December 2023
Year 12           Monday 15th January 2024
Year 13           Tuesday 7th November 2023

Yavneh (Boys and Girls)
Years 7-9        Monday 18th December 2023
Years 10-11     Tuesday 9th January 2024
Year 12           Monday 15th January 2024
Year 13           Tuesday 7th November 2023

Open Days / Evenings

10/10/2023

Open Evenings 2023
Open Days offer an opportunity to meet staff and pupils as well as to see our fantastic facilities. We invite prospective parents and pupils to visit King David High School on the following occasions:

Main School – Wednesday 1st November 2023: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Yavneh Girls – Tuesday 31st October: 6:00pm
Yavneh Boys – Tuesday 31st October: 7.30pm

Please contact the main school office for more information.

Medsoc Mock Interviews

22/9/2023

Year 13s MEDSOC students participated in a series of multiple mini-practice interviews. Students

5 minutes at each station, with an interviewer, to test a variety of skills such as empathy, dealing with emergencies, social awareness and numerical reasoning.

Ice-[Sch]ool

8/9/2023

Is there anything better than cooling down with an ice-pop on a lunchtime?
#IcePopSmiles #Lunchtime #KDCool

Main School Prize Giving

20/7/2023

We held our end of term prizegiving this morning. Congratulations to all our prize winners.

Bronze, silver and gold certificates were awarded for Attainment, Achievement, Progress and 100% attendance throughout the year. Those pupils exemplifying the qualities of Emet and Emunah were also recognised in a prize draw. We hope that even more pupils will be eligible for these awards next year.

Safer Internet Day

13/2/2023

Schools and youth organisations across the UK in are celebrating Safer Internet Day 2023. Safer Internet Day is a global campaign to promote the safe and responsible use of technology, which calls on children and young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers and more, to help to create a better internet.

Using the internet safely and positively is a key message that we promote in school and celebrating Safer Internet Day is a great opportunity for us to re-emphasise the online safety messages we deliver throughout the year.

We would be delighted if you could join us in celebrating the day by continuing the conversation at home. To help you with this, the UK Safer Internet Centre have created some free activities and information for parents and carers.

Whether you have 5 minutes to start a conversation or hours to spare, there are top tips, quizzes and films which you can use at home with your child.

If you have any concerns or questions about keeping your child safe online, please do get in touch with your child’s class teacher or the Designated Safeguarding Lead.

Y7 Safer Internet Posters
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Y8 Safer Intenet Posters
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#SaferInternetDay and links @UK_SIC

Remembrance Sunday

14/11/2022

Grace Silvert (Y13) with students of other faiths laying wreaths in Manchester on Remembrance Sunday.

Letter from Interim Chair of Governors

22/10/2022

Letter from Jonathan Dover, Interim Chair of Governors - Oct 2020
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Sixth Form Support Video

2/10/2022

Oxbridge and Medicine

19/8/2022

Added to the success at A-level this year, we wish congratulations to students who have been awarded places at Oxbridge and to study medicine.

Well done all.

Oxbridge

Rosy Akalawu-Ellman
Ethan Harris
Jack Moss
Lucy Singer

Medicine

Charley Press
Benjamin Joseph

Maccabiah Success

21/7/2022

What is Work Experience?

18/7/2022

Year 12 Work Experience Week gives students the opportunities to sample office life, field work and to see how they could fit in to real world business and working environments.

Please click on this link and read the thoughts and reflections from Isla Abelson and Sam Pundick on their Work Experience Week.

MEN School of the year Finalists

12/7/2022

KDHS ORT Jump Success

10/7/2022

This year, 8 yr12 students have been taking part in an industry mentoring scheme run by ORT Jump, based in London. We are the first school outside of London to take part.

Adiela Levine, Maia Lurie, Emily Radivan, Ayala Aronson, Ari Cohen, Grace Silvert, Freya Taylor, Max Shalks have all gained a huge amount from working with a mentor in their chosen industry, receiving advice, and tips about what it is like to work in that career. 3 travelled to London on 4th July and received graduation certificates alongside their London-based peers.

The great success this year owes to participant enthusiasm and diligence and we congratulate them all - well done!

We look forward to these students being ambassadors for next year's cohort and for this partnership to go from strength to strength.

OFSTED: KDHS Statement of Action

20/6/2022

Any school placed in special measures by OFSTED is required to put an action plan in place. The full statement of actions taken by KDHS since the OFSTED inspection of November 2021 is available for you to read here.

Please do feel free to contact us with any comments about this.

LAMDA Success

10/5/2022

ALL students from main school and Yavneh Girls gained high distinctions for their recent LAMDA exams. Students attend sessions on lunchtimes developing skills in acting, prose and verse speaking. This club is available to all students across the campus. Mrs. Burns has been teaching LAMDA for 17 years and her passion and experience has formed students with the confidence to always believe they can achieve.

Tilly Shapiro, Joshua Levene, Lucy Gradel year 11 Lamda silver medal acting.
Rebecca Harris year 10 Verse & Prose Silver Medal.
Deborah Kanter Year 8 Grade 2 Verse & Prose
Miri Cohen Year 9 Acting Grade 5

Educational Establishment of the Year, 2022

9/5/2022

The King David High School is very rpoud to share that it has been selected as an 'Educational Establishment of The Year' [2022] at the Education Resources Awards.

Congratulations to all teachers and students for receiving this prestigious award.

Lego League Winners

6/4/2022

Many congratulations to the Year 9 and 10 Lego League winners for 'Best Robot Design'. The Lego league meets each week where they pratice techniques in design and programming. Everyone is welcome.

L-R: Mr. Curati, Akiva Mann-Weinberg, Avi Abeles, Manny Fekete, Michale Faber and Miss Hirst

Exam Stress

3/4/2022

Exams are coming up for year 11s and year 13s. Firstly, don't panic. Reach out to your form tutor, Miss Ainsworth in student support, and Mr. Cheetham and the safeguarding team.

Secondly, download and have a read of our 'Exam Stress Guide' for Summer 2022.

Good luck to everyone.

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March-Stache

31/3/2022

Mr Ryan and Mr Vincent have grown moustaches during the month of March (March-stache rather than Movember)! They're raising money for the Stonewall charity and have a Just Giving account if anyone would like to donate.

Thank you for your support.

STEM Inspiration

29/3/2022

Sharing STEM inspiration and guidance for sixth form girls in the world of software engineering was former pupil Yasmin Cooper. She provided a special insight into the role
Pictured (L-R): Melissa Bickerdike, Nechama Giffen, Yasmin Cooper, , , Emily Bowers and Deputy Head Mrs. Basger.

Pajes And Ukraine

7/3/2022

We'd like to make you aware of a talk organised by PaJeS (the Partnership In Jewish Education) this Wednesday evening, 9th March 2022, at 8pm that will take place via ZOOM. This is advice and support for parents and guardians to manage children’s anxiety and fears over the current situation in Ukraine.

A flyer for this event and details of how to sign up are available using this link.

Reminder: Y7 Parents Evening

24/2/2022

Parents Evening: Year 7 - Wednesday 9th March 2022:

Face to Face from 5.30pm.
Booking information will be sent to parents in the week before.
Any queries, please contact the main school office.

CTEEN Int/l Nominations

21/2/2022

Alfie Joseph [Year 11] and Katie Freedman [Year 13], are team leaders at CTEEN and have been nominated at the CTeen Choice Awards 2022. Alfie has been nominated for ‘Male International Leader of the Year’ and Katie has been nominated for ‘Female International Leader of the Year’ 2022.

Alfie Joseph (15) has been a leader for 2 years and is part of the connections team, senior editor & Mitzvah Ambassador. Katie Freeman (17) has been a leader for 3 years and also part of the connections team and Mitzvah Ambassador. A Mitzvah Ambassador is someone who promotes doing mitzvahs such as at Chanukah they would go round to peoples houses bringing them menorahs.

Many thanks for the support, guidance and leadership of Rabbi Shalom and Mushky Cohen, directors of CTeen Manchester.

Winter Concert

10/2/2022

Wow! Wow! After a two year break we had an amazing evening together filled with song, music, acapella, choir, band and talent on display from students in Year 7 to 13 at the King David High School Winter Concert. The concert presented a mixed selection of songs and music from theatre repertoire, classical renditions and guitar selections to a rock band review, piano solos, trumpet voluntaries and saxophone jazz to festive songs both traditional and pop. The evening was bookended by a full school orchestra pieces conducted and led by Head of Music, Miss Shields.

Congratulations to everyone involved both in front and behind the scenes. Please click and view the sample photographs below.

Many thanks to Miss Shields and Mrs Neale, all the support and peripatetic music staff and especially our students for presenting and sharing a wonderful evening together.