Year 6 Reflections
Year 6 Reflections: From Courage to Care
These are reflections from Monday's 'Upstander' incursion from Courage to Care. They taught the definitions of stereotypes, racism, discrimination, and prejudice. Annette, one of the presenters, told her parents' story of how they survived the Holocaust. Afterward, they talked about the importance of being an 'Upstander' in our lives.
Courage to Care Incursion
By Tom B
In class we learned about being an upstander which is someone who helps a victim or stops bullying, we also heard a story about the Holocaust. We got told descriptions of different types of discrimination, such as racism, meaning being rude or not including people because of their race or culture. Stereotype, which means having an opinion about someone or something and not letting anyone else say otherwise. Then there's prejudice which means that you already think something bad of someone without getting to know them.
Courage to Care Incursion Reflection
By Myles
On Monday we had an incursion about putting a stop to bullying and judging people for their race, gender, or sexuality. After we learned about the different types of bullying, we heard a story from one of the people running the incursion.
Her name was Annette and her parents survived the Holocaust in World War Two. Since Annette’s parents were Jewish, by Adolf Hitler’s orders they were trapped in a ghetto with very little food and water. After a while, they had had enough of it so some of them decided to hide in a garbage truck and escape.
Annette’s mother was in the truck, but her father was left behind. A few months later, with the help of some other Jewish people trapped in the ghetto, they dug a tunnel 200m long using just spoons and broken shovels. And then on a cold and windy night, they decided this was the night to escape.
Every person was given a number for when to go through the hole. Once they got through they entered a wheat field and fled for the forest. While everyone was travelling through the tunnel, the guards were alerted. Eventually, they arrived at the field, and out of the 230 people that tried to escape only 170 made it to the forest without being killed.
Courage to Care Incursion
By Sophie
We learnt 4 keywords for the lesson: Prejudice, stereotype, discrimination, and racism.
Prejudice means judging something or someone before you actually know that thing or person, you are making assumptions. Stereotypes are the view that something or someone should have the exact same characteristics. Discrimination is an unfair treatment of people, and it's often things they can't change about themselves, like gender, age, religion, background, or disability. Racism is treating someone badly because of their race.
We then learnt about ways to be an upstander instead of being a bystander, like standing up for the victim, telling the bully that what they’re doing isn’t okay, or asking if the victim is okay. Did you know that 1 in 7 people experience bullying in Australia?
Afterward, a lady called Annette told us a story about her parents. Her parents were Polish and they survived the Holocaust. They were trapped in a ghetto and managed to escape. Annette’s mother escaped on the back of a garbage truck, but her dad escaped to a small house where people were helping the Jews. From the ghetto, people built a tunnel 200m long, the length of the MCG! It was hard and took lots of work because they didn’t have excavators or other tools or machines, they had spoons, sticks, and their own hands. They managed to have lots of people go through the tunnel to a safe forest, but half of the group died. In the end, they rescued over 1000 people!
Courage to Care Incursion 25/11/24
By Seb
We heard a story about when the Nazis were discriminating against the Jews and sending them into concentration camps and ghettos. Jews that escaped helped save the others captured and get them to the safety of the forest. An upstander is someone who stops the bullying towards someone and helps.
Stereotype: putting a certain category of people in a group and not accounting for others that might not fit that description. An example would be to say that ‘Asians are good at maths’, not all Asians might be good at maths.
Prejudice: Making assumptions about others you haven’t met based on past events.
Discrimination: An individual or group being treated unfairly because of their race, gender, skin colour, nationality, Who they are attracted to, or their appearance.
Racism: discriminating against an individual or a group of people based on their beliefs.
The incursion relates to my life in the sense that I should be helping others who have been affected when they get bullied or discriminated against.
My takeaway from this incursion is that I have learned all about racism, stereotypes, discrimination, and prejudice.