Year 7 Interfaith
Miri Heitner – Hebrew Teacher
A group of Year 7 students participated in a session of Interfaith that was organised by Together For Humanity on Wednesday.
The students travelled to Grenville Boys High School in Western Sydney and met with a group of boys from Granville Boys High School and a group of girls from Auburn High School.
The day started with a game where a religious item was pulled out of a bag and the students had to guess from which faith it was. Later, students engaged in group activities and got to know each other better by learning about the meaning of their names and later collaborated to create a vehicle from a set of screws and wheels.
After the break, the groups joined forces to sort out symbols and quotes from each faith.
On the day the students were fortunate to have staff from “Together For Humanity” from the three faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The staff shared personal stories about being mistreated due to ignorance and bias.
This was a profound and meaningful experience for our students. They have intelligently represented the school and Judaism and were open to meet new friends from different backgrounds.
We look forward to our next session in Auburn and later to host the schools at Emanuel School.
