For the past 10 weeks, ACT public school students and community members have been recording their thoughts, feelings and experiences through the Education Directorate’s Moments in Time initiative.
Championed by the Director General of the Directorate, Katy Haire, the program encouraged students to find their voice and play an active role in recording moments in history.
Ms Haire chose the weekly writing prompts for students and even provided her own diary entry.
“Thinking about how people in the future will understand what we are living through now has made me think that keeping a journal would be a useful thing to do,” Ms Haire said.
“I like to think that contemporaneous accounts of what is happening to us will help people understand and learn from what we are experiencing,” she said.
Ms Haire said the weekly writing prompts were chosen for students and there was also a new guest writer each week, with inspiring contributions from writer Jackie French, former Canberra Raider Alan Tongue, Her Excellency Linda Hurley and many more.
“All ACT public school students were invited to take part in the initiative, with the creative responses ranging from a summary of their day, a piece of poetry, dot points or stream of consciousness writing,” she said.
“The students explored and expressed a diverse array of thoughts, feelings and experiences throughout the series.”
She said there were some common themes, both positive and negative, from cherishing extra time spent with family, to feelings of disappointment for having taken opportunities for granted in the past.
Further information about the Moments in Time initiative, including how to become involved, can be accessed at this PS News link.
