Colourful Heritage Month at Hillcrest
Heritage Month has been colourful this year for everyone at Hillcrest Secondary School.
Earlier in the year one of the teachers at the school approached residents at Monte Christo Retirement Village and asked them to make pencil bags for her class.
Heidi Frost immediately volunteered to head this project, but she felt it would be unfair to make the bags just for one class and decided to make pencil bags for the entire school.
She did not want one child to be left out. With a generous fabric donation from Loraine Halkett, Heidi and her friend, Mariette Walliser, started working on 1 253 pencil bags, not only for the learners, but also for the teachers and other staff members. They finished this project within three months.
On Monday, 21 September, Heidi, Mariettte, and Eleonora Alberts from Monte Christo Retirement Village handed out the pencil bags to the children at Hillcrest School as part of their Heritage Month celebrations. Heidi told the learners they should study hard and not let something like the lockdown derail them from always doing their best. They should work hard and do well during the coming exams.
Principal Ivan Kroneberg thanked everyone involved and told the learners they believed in showing kindness when they received kindness and that as soon as it was safe to do so, some of the learners would go to Monte Christo Retirement Village to visit the residents.