{"id":44267,"date":"2026-03-13T13:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&p=44267"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:34:13","slug":"year-6-connections-with-real-life-service","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/year-6-connections-with-real-life-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 6 \u2013 Connections with Real-Life Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, a group of Year 6 girls visited Uniting Locke Haven, providing a meaningful opportunity to connect real\u2011life service with the values of the Uniting Church. The visit was a great success, filled with laughter, singing, shared stories and, of course, ice cream. Most importantly, it was a chance for the girls to build connections and bring joy to others. Below are some reflections from the girls about their experience.<\/p>\n

‘During our trip to Uniting Haven Locke our favourite part of the day was meeting all the kind elderly people and hearing their stories, seeing their beautiful AI posters, and writing gratitude notes to all of them. This experience is one we will never forget.’<\/em>
\n\u2013 Lucie Elias<\/strong><\/em> and Vaani Narang<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘In our trip to Uniting Haven Locke, \u00a0I loved meeting the kind, elderly people, performing our songs, listening to advice, and learning about their pasts. We looked at their projects about “Hug Your Younger Self”. One man told me that he came from Ireland and travelled to Australia by boat. Thank you for letting us contribute to this wonderful program.’
\n\u2013 Serena Li<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

‘I really enjoyed going to the nursing home and meeting all the elderly and learning all their stories. They gave us some useful advice for the future, for example ‘don\u2019t rush making money, just enjoy the little bits of life’. Overall it was a great experience, and I hope I can do it again.’
\n\u2013 Peita Nikolakopoulos<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0‘<\/strong>I am so glad l got to experience the “Hug Your Younger Self” program, and to see all the elderly peoples quotes and the time I had with them. l learnt about their personalities, and they told us ‘not to rush your life, and to take your time”.’\u00a0
\n\u2013 Sienna Nguyen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 Melissa Bye,<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Year 6 Coodinator and Sarah Jauncey,<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Director of Experiential Learning<\/p>\n

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Last Friday, a group of Year 6 girls visited Uniting Locke Haven, providing a meaningful opportunity to connect real\u2011life service with the values of the Uniting Church. The visit was a great success, filled with laughter, singing, shared stories and, of course, ice cream. Most importantly, it was a chance for the girls to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[5],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-44267","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-junior-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/44267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=44267"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=44267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}