SCHOOL NEWS COURAGE TO CARE

On the 20th and 21st of February, the amazing group called Courage to Care talked to all of our Year 8 classes about the importance of not being a bystander, but an upstander through lessons relating to the Holocaust. Courage to Care has been around since 1992, and now delivers the program to over 140,000 kids in Victoria. Joined by the incredible Ken, he told students about his breathtaking story of how he survived the Holocaust because of the kindness in people's hearts. It was these people who chose to hide him and his family in their once safe house, risking their lives to save others.

It really let us know the privilege we have in our day and age, motivating students to be more of an upstander, like the people who sheltered Ken and his family. After this students were split up into groups where they tackled issues such as racism, discrimination, antiseminism and prejudice head on. It was a memorable set of three periods filled with meaningful lessons and morals we can all apply to our lives. Once again, thank you to Courage to Care for such an interesting and eyeopening experience that left all students and teachers thinking.