Whitehall Park children attended an assembly with Natasha Kaplinsky and Ed Balls to commemorate the Holocaust Memorial Day 2022.
We learnt about we can learn from the past to be better for the future, in a society based on tolerance and respect, free from prejudice, discrimination and hatred. We painted stones which will form part of a giant memorial for the Holocaust*.
* Foundation Stones invites schools across the UK to paint a stone in remembrance of the six million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust and all other victims of Nazi persecution. Stones can be dedicated to those murdered in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Building on the Jewish custom of placing a pebble on headstones when visiting a grave, Foundations Stones from across the United Kingdom will become part of the new memorial, each one a commitment to remember and learn from the past.
https://www.big-ideas.org/current-projects/foundation-stones/
