Black Saturday survivor Di Naylor came to talk to the Year 7 and 8 students about her experiences in the Black Saturday Bushfire.
Mrs Naylor used to live (and still does) in King Lake West and lost her house and her parents-in-law in the fire on 7th February 2009. She was lucky enough to just escape the flames with her two boys and evacuate to Yea.
The Year 7 students have been studying a unit called Water and the World in Humanities, part of this unit is to consider natural disasters caused by water (or lack of it). Di’s experiences, memories and photographs of living on the mountain and through Black Saturday were very interesting for the students to hear about and enabled them to hear a first hand account of what it is like to live through such a violent natural disaster.