At the end of October, Josh Speirs and Andrew Morley of sixth year joined senior students from across the whole of the West of Scotland for a very moving one-day visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camps in Poland. Run by the London-based Holocaust Educational trust and funded by the Scottish Government, the aim of the project is to give pupils a greater understanding of what happened in the death camps and to learn where prejudice, racism and anti-Semitism can lead.

The group visited barracks, and saw museum exhibits that gave a stark reminder of the cruelty inflicted in these dens of inhumanity. Both Josh and Andrew found the experience powerfully moving. The boys will lead the school in our own Holocaust Memorial Tribute in January 2014 as part of the national week of Holocaust Remembrance.