FEATURE ON COMMUNITY SERVICE
STUDENTS SHOW RESPECT FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRES Earlier this year, a group of students led by Vice-Captain Lochlan Medd, continued the student-led initiative of designing Word Shirts that highlight key aspects important to student life at Canberra Grammar School. Lochlan said ‘in light of this year’s catastrophic bushfires, we thought that a Word Shirt initiative focusing on respect would be appropriate to raise awareness and funds for those who were affected’.
The funds raised will be donated towards a variety of charities this year with a focus on assisting those within the School community and Canberra and surrounding regions.
The Word Shirt initiative was started in 2019 by Vice-Captain and now alumnus Freddie Klein.
‘Initiatives such as the Word Shirts are important to life at CGS, and they bring together the School community for a single cause. We hope that the Shirts had a meaningful impact and are worn at future events and School functions’ Lochlan continued.
‘The initiative was particularly important this year as we felt it served as a reminder and tribute to those who fought the bushfires and those affected and as a token of our respect for those who have endured through a crisis that will have a long-lasting impact’ he said.
STUDENTS RUN TO CLOSE THE GAP In February, a group of CGS Indigenous students—Creed Dann (Year 10), Michael Browne (Year 8), Kye Moggridge (Year 10), Trae Bashford (Year 10), and Joel Gould (Year 11)—were invited to the early morning annual Close the Gap Fun Run and Walk. The fun run, which saw 200 runners enter, commenced at Reconciliation Place. The Close the Gap Fun Run and Walk is an initiative by Rob de Castella and the Indigenous Marathon Foundation which inspires communities to take up running not just for exercise but also to connect and share stories in a supportive environment. Such healthy lifestyle programmes are vital in the efforts to bridge the substantial gap in health, education, and employment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. 34 | CGS OUTLOOK | Semester One 2020
