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| Just some of the goodies on sale today |
Today is International Human Rights Day. It's today because the UN Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on10 December 1948. My student society wanted to take the opportunity to raise the profile of the issue at school and have arranged different ways of doing this. Tonight the Debating Society will hold a debate with the motion "This house believes that torture can be justified" and two of my student society members are in opposition. They also decided to hold a bake sale and rather than simply heading down to Tesco and reselling they decided to make the stuff. Chaos. Absolute chaos! But it was amazing. They spent the whole afternoon yesterday and today baking goodies and sold them at the end of the school day. The atmosphere while we were baking was great; really good fun with lots of jolly chatter and good will. They really came together today. The picture shows some of the goodies on offer. They're also going to sell them at the debate tonight too. They have already raised £121 for the Red Crescent which they want to support given their connection with Palestine from the trip last year. They did something today. And I really couldn't be prouder. Given that it's the dark end of term, we're all shattered (especially them) and how busy they are with work I am really impressed that they gave up so much time to help people who need it.
