As part of our Tuesday afternoon activities during Term Two, some of our year 9 and 10 students made regular visits to local nursing home, Newmarch House. This was both very challenging and rewarding for our young people. The residents thoroughly enjoyed the visits and looked forward to them each week. On the week of our last visit, some of the residents were asking for the same students to come back again. I am proud of the way our students rose out of their comfort zones and made personal connections.

Charlotte O in year 9 wrote

I was lucky to have the privilege to go to Newmarch nursing home in Kingswood as part of the Tuesday afternoon program. By going there each week, it was a great opportunity to connect and socialise with people who get lonely by not getting many visitors. Over the weeks of getting to know the residents, we built great relationships with them, and it turned into both them and us looking forward to visiting them each week as it would be their highlight of the week. Personally, I found visiting them a great way to serve the local community and I highly recommend other students being a part of it in the future.