On Monday, 20th August, Redlynch State College students in Years 3 and 6 joined for an educational puppet show about cancer and how we can help and support others who live with this illness. The show was brought to us by Camp Quality, a business that helps kids learn more about cancer. They offer camps to kids who have been diagnosed with cancer. In the puppet show there was a young girl named Kylie who was unfortunately diagnosed with leukaemia, a type of cancer. Kylie used a special medicine called Chemotherapy, which affected her lifestyle because of the side-effects which included: loss of hair, nausea and tiredness. Kylie was teased about being contagious but she explained that you cannot catch cancer from somebody else.
Dean, who is one of Kylie’s friends, supported her through her fight with cancer. He supported her through the hard times even though his Mum was also going through the same pain as Kylie. Kylie felt embarrassed that she had no hair and to make things worse, she had to come up with a speech for class. Dean was a very supportive friend and dressed up as cancer to help Kylie with her speech. She was a very thankful friend for Dean’s help. Kylie was able to complete her speech because she had a supportive friend like Dean to help her along the way. Kylie and Dean informed all present that having cancer is nothing to be ashamed of. If you know someone fighting cancer you should help support them by just being a good friend because we all deserve that.
Jorjy / Kiara
Students 6E