Mini Vinnies - “Making a Difference”

Friday 20th August 2021

Each year, the Year 6 Mini Vinnies students are given the opportunity to participate in activities that highlight the fact of homelessness in the community. This year, to comply with COVID-19 regulations and ensure this event retains its significance, students will be given the opportunity to engage their individual perspective from a position of opportunity.  They will be invited to consider the issues of homelessness and associated stigma, as they participate in practical activities that prompt discernible conversation around possible scenarios and thinking laterally, outside of their own personal experience and what is considered the ‘norm’ in society.

While this event will not require students to stay overnight, it will create an experience that will inform and direct learning, outside the classroom context.  There will be a representative from St. Vincent De Paul directing activities that provoke students to consider homelessness as a reality.   Raising awareness is a tangible voice for homelessness and generates compassion and understanding towards those who are less fortunate in society.

In previous years, children have been asked to donate items that are needed in our own community.  This year, we have been advised that personal care products such as  deodorant, soap, razors, toothpaste, tooth brush, small nail clippers, short comb hair brushes, as well as cleaning products are in demand at present.  

In response to this need, we ask that students donate at least one product and would also like to extend this invitation to the wider school community, as an action of collective outreach to others. To support this event, please place your donations into the blue box, which can be located in the administration office or alternatively bring them to the classroom for collection.

Please note that the pictures below are only examples of what is needed.  Thank you in advance for supporting the collective outreach efforts of the Year 6 students and the Holy Spirit school community.