Welcome back after the Pesach break to the last stretch of the 2012-2013 school year! King David does not slow down!

Here are a few of the exciting activities and events coming up this term:

• Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration (April 16) 
• Grade 8 Trip to Israel (April 21 - May 2)
• Grade 9 Trip to Washington, DC (May 5 - May 8) 
• Jewtopia (May 8 and 9)
• Year End Celebration (May 28)
• Graduation (June 6) 

             

Following discussions about local water use, sewage treatment and grey water, Grade 8 Art students created original designs for the storm and sanitary sewer covers scattered throughout the city. These designs will be entered as part of the City of Vancouver's IRONCLAD competition, inviting artists to design new 'manhole' covers, as part of the city-wide project to separate storm and sanitary sewers.
 
Students drew a series of options, selected one to be refined and enlarged, and then created a rubber block to create a pattern using block printing. Each student submitted a black and white print to the city for consideration; coloured prints are on display in the school.
 
Hundreds of submissions, from the general public and possibly our students, will be displayed at the Interurban Gallery (1 East Hastings Street) from Tuesday May 28th to Saturday June 8th, 2013.

The fun lunchtime Fiesta put on by our Grade 11 Spanish class raised enough money to purchase five book-filled traveling backpacks to promote literacy amongst the children in the younger elementary classes in a school in the rural village of Occopata! Watch the video of Senora Lawrence delivering them over the Pesach break.