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Students at Whanganui's Faith City School organise initiatives to support Christchurch mosque shooting victims

Sue Dudman
Sue Dudman
News director - Whanganui Chronicle·Whanganui Chronicle·
22 Mar, 2019 04:00 PMQuick Read

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The Faith City School student leadership team with the memorial book they will send to Christchurch.

The Faith City School student leadership team with the memorial book they will send to Christchurch.

Students at Whanganui's Faith City School have shown their love for the Christchurch terror attack victims.

Senior students at Faith City School arrived at school on Monday, March 18, "withdrawn and down, like everyone in New Zealand", principal Ruth McLeay said.

The usual morning prayers for the whole school were cancelled so senior students could have prayer time and a discussion with a teacher about how they were feeling, away from the junior students.

"The Year 8 student leaders had a meeting and came up with the idea of a mufti day to raise money for Christchurch," McLeay said.

The mufti day raised more than $300. The students also organised a memorial book and invited the community in to the school to sign it. The book will be sent to Christchurch.

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"As a Christian school, we want to show love," McLeay said.

"That's our responsibility – to show a caring hand to everyone."

Students, who were at the Splash Centre, also joined in the two minutes' silence at 1.32pm on Friday, March 22.

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