Colourful Heritage Day for all at Hillcrest

MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Heritage Day 2020 started of colourfully this year for everyone at Hillcrest.

Earlier in this year one of the teachers at the school approached the Monte Christo Retirement Village to ask them to make pencil bags for her class. Heidi Frost immediately volunteered to head this project, but she felt that it would be unfair to make the bags just for one class and decided to make pencil bags for the entire school.

She did not want one child to be left out. With a generous fabric donation from Loraine Halkett, Heidi and her friend, Mariette Walliser, started working on 1 253 pencil bags, not only for the students but also for the teachers and other staff members. They finished this project within three months.

On Monday, 21 September Heidi, Mariettte, and Eleonora Alberts from the Monte Christo Retirement Village handed out the pencil bags to the students at Hillcrest School as part of their Heritage week celebrations. Heidi told the students that they must study hard and not let something like the lockdown derail them from always doing their best. They must work hard and do good during the upcoming exams.

Principal Ivan Kronenberg thanked everyone involved and told the students that at Hillcrest they believe in also showing kindness when they receive it and that as soon as it is safe to do so, some of the students will go to Monte Christo Retirement Village to visit with the elderly residents.

Sandisela Bobela, Enrico Flores and Jazwin Jansen with their pencil bags.