Community Connections
Courage to Care Workshops During Term 1, our Year 8 students were privileged to hear first-hand accounts from Holocaust survivors from ‘Courage to Care’. The stories from survivors demonstrated how their survival was only possible through the courageous acts of strangers throughout the period of WWII. The volunteers had great things to say about our students, commenting on their thoughtful attention during sessions and their subsequent letters of response that they sent to the speakers. This is now the fourth year that the organisation has visited Camberwell Grammar, which serves the secondary purpose of consolidating student’s foundational knowledge for the study of John Boyne’s novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Rotary Interact The first meeting of the School’s Rotary Interact Club was well attended early in the term with ideas for fundraising flowing freely. Going by this first meeting, it promises to be a stellar year of fundraising for our local and international charities. In mid-March the Club held a very successful sausage sizzle at lunchtime with $1,220 raised for our international and local charities. With approximately 50 students from Years 9 -12 regular attendees at lunchtime meetings, and the support of our parent club Canterbury Rotary Club, our Interact Club is intent on upholding the motto ‘Service Above Self’.
PLUS Donations This term PLUS donated 12 boxes of shorts and jumpers to Backpacks 4 Vic Kids. This charity provides relocated foster children with a few essential items to ease feelings of loss and to help with their move. Often children are placed quickly into foster care, kinship care, or emergency accommodation without much more than what they are wearing at the time. They are often short of clothes items for the older children, so Backpacks 4 Vic Kids were very grateful to have the items that PLUS had in excess donated to them. You can find out more information at www.backpacks4vickids.org.au Next, our PLUS volunteers are keen to visit their warehouse in Cranbourne to have a look at what they do and see what else we may be able to donate as a school community.
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