That was the heart-warming feedback Grow Hope received from Sharni, a fifteen-year-old from Gunbalanya who recently stayed at Hope House together with some of her peers in Years 10-12. The girls travelled to Hope House in Palmerston from their school in Gunbalanya in order to spend a week doing schoolwork away from home.
During their stay, students were responsible for cooking their own healthy meals and followed a roster for who prepared each meal of the day. However, it quickly became the case that everybody joined in to contribute to every meal. The students organised the ingredients, cooked the food, served it, and cleaned the kitchen afterwards. Important life skills in cooking and working as a team were sharpened.
While at Hope House, students worked hard to complete their first English assessment task, which was to write a narrative. They have been studying The Burnt Stick, a book by Anthony Hill, and used this as scaffolding for their own writing. It's a testament to the safe and welcoming environment our team have created at Hope House that the students were able to focus effectively and complete a large amount of schoolwork in a short period of time.
