Good afternoon everyone.
Wow. What an event our Y8 students put together last night. Every single 1 of them grafted throughout the day to put on a really professional Afternoon Tea event for their family and invited guests as a celebration of their learning for the expedition ‘Is Migration Worth the Risk?’
Students truly excelled in all areas, from catering for 150 people, creating wooden birds decorated in their own Islamic art, folding over 150 paper cranes, creating menus, seating plans, not to mention the artwork inspired by the poem that they then performed beautifully. If you can believe it, we also had Connor, Kenzie and Ryan MAKE the beautiful tired cake stands that were on every table. Every single student and a chance to shine over the past few weeks preparing for this celebration of learning and I am so proud of all of them for their hard work.
Students have had a number of great opportunities this term. They visited an art exhibition during refugee week where all of the art was created by migrants to express how they felt about the decision and the experience of migration. They have all had the chance to get in the kitchen and cook diverse foods. A group of students performed the poem Home by Warsan Shire (which you heard from the full cohort last night) at St Mary’s Heritage centre to a group of local delegates. Students also had the opportunity to volunteer their time at a local Saturday school and a group of our stewardship and gardening club students visited the local Comfrey project to do some activist learning through gardening!
It has been quite the term; it has been a pleasure working with the students on this expedition and I am so proud of all of them and would like to appreciate all of the staff, volunteers and experts who have supported the students this term. Finally to all of the parents. Your support is priceless when it comes to helping our students to grow into the people they want to be. Thank you.
Have a lovely restful summer break.
