Holocaust Museum evocative highlight at open house

BY NADINE ARMSTRONG

The Hants Journal

NovaNewsNow.com

Avon View High School in Windsor opened its doors to the public last week to showcase students’ work and talent.

Interactive displays and presentations highlighted student participation in art, science, literature, physical education, cooking and music. Students promoted their school’s resources such as the Student Health Centre and Job Bank, and also showed what they have to offer outside the classroom through fundraiser/awareness booths and an ongoing talent show.

However, one of the most notable displays was the Holocaust Museum. Grade 12 English students and teacher Betty Ann McGinnis transformed their classroom into an evocative and haunting memorial. AVRSB member Doug Frasier was duly impressed with the display and spoke to students about having met a Holocaust survivor when he was a young university student.

Students of that class study and write about the Holocaust and one student said it helped the creative process to have such a meaningful subject. McGinnis covers a unit on the Holocaust each year and says it’s important that courses other than history touch on the subject.

“Not everyone will take history,” said one student, “but English is mandatory, so this way everyone will learn about the Holocaust.”