Poland Visit

Allerton Grange students swap Leeds snow

for Polish snow..

Twenty sixth form students from Allerton Grange school in Moortown left behind the snow in Leeds and headed off to Poland on the 29th November for a four day visit. The trip was a section of the school enrichment programme which is to be part of a Human Rights and Social Justice Programme run by the Prism Youth Project (Via Media). This residential trip was the culmination of the 12 week course and involved  finding out about the events leading up to the holocaust and discover what happened, how it happened and the social side of the events surrounding it.

Nick Dutton-Taylor, Social Science teacher at Allerton Grange, accompanied the students on the visit and told us  “As a school we are very excited to have been selected to take part in this programme and it has proved to be a life changing experience for our students” Whilst in Poland the students stayed in Krakow and went to see the Ghettos and the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps  where many of the exhibits proved upsetting and poignant.  Birkenau is the larger of the two and unlike the main camp at Auschwitz, is more or less in the same state it was found was when it was liberated in 1945. Mr Dutton-Taylor said “Even though it was uncomfortable viewing at times this particular visit will linger in the memory longer than any other part of the trip.”

Photo:  6^TH form students on the visit. Photo taken at the Secret Garden Hostel in Krakow

Dec 2010