The Year 10 students have been fortunate to experience a day of empathy and empowerment through the organisation, unOther. unOther is a disability awareness group and program that shows people the abilities and capabilities of people with a disability. The students engaged with a variety of tasks from using wheelchairs to complete daily tasks to trying to do buttons up with gardening gloves on. Students also heard the unique experiences of a diverse group of people with disabilities. They were shown Olympic sports in the form of powered wheelchair soccer, and a former ATO director spoke about his career. The students showed a great level of engagement and took away life lessons around the treatment and care for others and to follow what Jesus preached in Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge, or you will be judged.” One of the biggest concepts was “do not judge someone or their abilities until you know them and seek understanding not judgement”. We were very fortunate as a school to have worked with unOther and look forward to continued engagement with them.

Lyndon Vince

Teacher