House Spirit Day

On Friday (15 May) we had our House Chant parade and competition. The rain stayed away from around midday to allow us to have this annual event.  Here are some photos to show you how it went. We had to practise every day to remember all our words and moves and in the end we tried our best and performed it all in the hall to the judges and audience. We showed resilience by practicing over and over again and reflecting on our efforts to see how we could improve. The performance was all about working together in a group (reciprocal) and our House Leaders had to be so resourceful. They wrote the chants and came up with all the ideas. They also helped us learn the chants, walk and perform together. 

                                              This year Tui won the competition.

          

             

A very proud player of the day!We can celebrate together. 

Anzac Celebrations

We have been learning more about why we have ANZAC day and how we celebrate the day. So many of the students in the class discovered that they have family links to the wars in some way or another and many students came to share these links in class. We saw some real war medals that Isaiah brought in with photographs of the soldiers who earned these medals. Many students shared photos and stories of their family members who fought or died in the wars and Dale showed us a photo of his mum when she visited Gallipoli and AZAC cove. These shared experiences made ANZAC day very real to us.

We were reading this book when we discovered a link to Clevedon School as one of the soldiers named in the book was a teacher who taught here in the early 1900s.

We also read some poems and other books.

Have a look in our writing blog for some of our own acrostic poems.

Here is the poppy garden that we have created to show that we will always remember our brave soldiers.