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36 Previous/ Sony Christmas Camp companions and alumni Will Robertson, Rhiannon Bone and Grade 12 student Sarah Hope help physiotherapist Jo from Cadorna House with a safe manual handling demonstration for delegates at the Sony Foundation Childrens Holiday Camp Conference.
As a school with a strong Christian heritage it is important to place compassion front and centre.
our compassionate heritage Launceston Grammar offers numerous opportunities for students to show compassion to those within the community. As a school with a strong Christian heritage it is important to place compassion front and centre.
Our Grade 11 students each week work with young people who are members of the New Horizons Club. Other students visit nursing homes to share the stories of the older generation and to listen to their journeys. Grade 11 and 12 students help provide breakfast for children at a local primary school. The student2student peer reading programme, run through The Smith Family, involves Senior Campus students who are buddied up with a primary school student to hear and support them twice a week over the phone while they read aloud. These examples illustrate compassion in action.
At the Junior Campus compassion is seen in small everyday gestures where students willingly help. The four favourite words ‘How can I help?’ are often heard.
Literacy Fund. We have now raised over $2000 for this organisation who purchase literacy resources for use in remote areas of Australia.
In Term 1, Prep Bassano was looking at a unit on family and housing. In discussion, students discovered the harsh reality of homelessness and wanted to straight away help find solutions. The class decided to sell their toys to raise money to purchase Easter eggs for Feed the Homeless. They raised just over $500.
Our Junior Campus Prefects are on a mission to support the sponsorship of two children in Ethiopia. Last year we raised $2000 for this project. The students have a goal of $3000 this year.
Grade 5 Wilson, in response to hearing from Lachie Moore from the Senior Campus about the impact of having cerebral palsy, decided to plan and host a Makers’ Market (see page 41 for details) to assist in the fundraising of the Grade 12 Walkathon. Each year our library hosts a book sale with proceeds going to the Indigenous
Each Christmas we generously support the work of City Mission where our Christmas giving is either hamper items or small gifts for City Mission to distribute. We believe that in showing compassion to others, we are in a small way demonstrating the love and compassion that Jesus Christ has for us.
Elizabeth Poland, Junior Campus Chaplain and Revd Paul Grayston, Senior Campus Chaplain
