ANZAC DAY

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand. It occurs on 25 April every year to honour those who died and served in military operations for their countries.

The date 25 April was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916. On 25 April 1915, the ANZAC forces landed at Gallipoli. In that campaign 2,721 NZ soldiers lost their lives.

 Paper poppies are widely distributed by the Returned Services Association  (RSA) and 
worn as symbols of remembrance.

Commemorative services are held at dawn, the time of the original landing, mainly at 
war memorials in cities and towns.

The service is marked by the National Anthem, hymns, a piper, laying of ANZAC wreaths and the ANZAC Dedication which incorporates the final verse of Laurence Binyon's 
"For the Fallen":

                       They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
                             Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
                             At the going down of the sun and in the morning
                                                 We will remember them.

Finally, a single bugler sounds the Last Post, followed by a minute's silence, and the sounding of Reveille.

Easter Holidays

The holidays begin on good Friday 6th April.

We begin back at school on Monday 23rd April and....

Guess what?

Anzac day is on Wednesday 25th April

so school will be closed on this day.

Autumn

We have been talking about the four seasons.

Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter.

We went for a walk around the school and looked for signs of Autumn. 

We found colourful trees, chestnuts and seeds in our garden.

Some trees have fruit on them.

Twizel is beautiful in Autumn.

View across the lagoon at Lake Ruataniwha, Twizel.

Easter

To celebrate Easter we decorated 
hard boiled eggs with vivid pens.

We made little Easter Bunny baskets to put them in.
We filled them with Autumn leaves.

All of our eggs survived the day!
(First time ever!)

Class Party

Party! Party! Party!

Why?

Robert, Finn and Charlie had their last day in Room 7.

Next term they move to Room 9.

Today was also the last day for Miss Dockerty.

She is going back to Teachers College.

We have loved having you in our class Miss Dockerty

and we will all miss you.

Room 4 Construction Day

Room 4 children borrowed a lot of our construction materials to make these models.

They have been studying the wonders of the world, 

both modern and ancient, and had to construct their own version of a building.

The Sears Tower

The Eiffel Tower

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Empire State Building

The Eiffel Tower

The Leaning Tower of Pisa 


For more photos and information of how they designed and constructed their buildings, check out Room 4's Blog.

"Let Sleeping Kids Lie."

Room 7 children are playing

"Let Sleeping Kids Lie."

The 'kids' are very still and very quiet.

A Win at Sheilah Winn Festival, Timaru

Congratulations to the drama students who took out first place at the

Sheilah Winn Festival in Timaru,
for their performance  "Twelfth Night."

You were terrific!

Internal Courtyard

The shade cloth has arrived for the refurbished 
Internal Courtyard.

Mr Neal is about to put the new shade cloth up.

The Twizel Kapa Haka group performed at the 

Opening Ceremony to celebrate the refurbishment of the 

Internal Courtyard.

Official Opening of the Playground

 
All of the Junior School is getting ready for the
Official Opening Ceremony of the Playground.

Here are some of the Official Party.

Can you see the ribbon around the slide?

Watchers!

Mr Bayliss is from Meridian. 

Ms Watson spoke. 

Mr Feasey invited William to help pull the ribbon.

 
Getting ready to pull the ribbon.

Go!!!


Check out the video on Room 4's Blog!

The playground is open. Yay!

Star Gazing on the School Field 02 April 2012

A beautiful,calm Twizel evening greeted the Star Guides from Earth and Sky, Tekapo.
The evening began with a view of something shiny and bright hurtling across the evening sky.
Satellite? Meteor?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6681706/Glowing-ball-seen-in-NZ-skies
At 7.00pm we watched the space station crossing over. It was much slower than the previous object.

Sunset over the sports field at school, with the "Pipehenge" in the foreground.
There is a navigator's seat. Sitting in it, your eye is at the center of a skeletal sphere, with the summer and winter path of the sun indicated by the white arcs.
North is past the red pole, south past the blue pole, east past the green pole, and west past the yellow pole.
The circle shows the path of the Southern Cross around the South Celestial Pole.

AJ focussing his telescope.

Christian with the large telescope from Earth and Sky, Lake Tekapo.

Sahar looking at Venus, the first star (planet) visible in the evening.

Eddie is looking through a telescope.
(With a little bit of help.)

Tom checking out Venus.

Looking through binoculars at the night sky.

Caleb looking through a diffferent telescope. 

Liam and Miss Maclennan.

Tom looking at Castor and Pollux.

Jonathan looking at Mars.

Mr and Mrs Grant.

Stormy Lee.

Stormy Lee looking at Mars.

View of the moon, taken through the large telescope.

The evening talk was presented by...

http://earthandskynz.com/earthandsky/night_tours/night_tours.html

Our Pipe Henge is made of fixed pipes of galvanised steel, joined with aluminium junctions and coated with a baked powder coating in 6 colours, set in concrete and surrounded by safety matting.

April

Jo began school on Monday.
Happy Birthday Jo.

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We drew pictures on whiteboards.

Presents!

Elaine sent us some pencils and stickers.
Thank you Elaine.