Congratulations to our Year 11 boys who have been participating in a roster to prepare and serve breakfast to the homeless and disadvantaged at the ‘Loaves and Fishes Free Restaurant’ in Ashfield. The restaurant is open six days per week and provides free meals to over 400 `guests’ every day.

As part of our Service Learning program, we supply three volunteers each day and already this year we have received positive feedback about our young Newington men, from one of the supervisors at the restaurant.

The supervisor wrote to say, “how well behaved the boys have been; courteous and above all, able to engage in conversation with adults which we know many teenagers find challenging”.

So far boys from Fletcher, Johnstone Kelynack and Le Couteur Houses, have been out on duty and these boys have ‘set the bar high’ for the other four Houses, who have their opportunity to serve later in the term. The roster then continues through the Houses all year round.

Mr Mick Madden
Head of Service Learning