'With the news about what’s happening in aged care, some of the children related to that and so we thought about how we could turn this into a positive'
What started as a straight-forward letter writing exercise at one Melbourne school has blossomed into a thousand paper flowers, adorned with the words of young children and given to some of the city’s most vulnerable.Credit:Students at Scoresby Secondary College have been tuning into the news of the escalating loss of life in Melbourne’s aged care homes, and their concern has been coming out in their writing, principal Gail Major says.
“A lot of these children aren’t seeing their peers at school, and they aren’t seeing their older relatives either,” Ms Major said. “With the news about what’s happening in aged care, some of the children related to that and so we thought about how we could turn this into a positive.
“That was probably the tipping point; we had some families bring in 10 to 15 flowers that they’d made and it really started the whole thing off.” “For them to think of others and to be empowered to do something nice for someone else … it just fitted in beautifully and I think that’s why we got such a great response,” he said.
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