Ruapotaka ANZAC Assembly 2019

Last term on Friday, Ruapotaka School had a special ANZAC service to remember the soldiers who fought in the Gallipoli war. Someone students wore their poppy that they bought with their $1 coin.

Each class created their own ANZAC presentation to represent ANZAC. Room 12's presentation was full of poppies to support the soldiers who lost their lives on the poppy field. It was a very emotional day for everyone.

ANZAC Day!

The ANZAC ceremony was on April 25th on Wednesday. We have ANZAC day to remember the soldiers who fought in the World war one and, World war two. In World war one, thousands of soldiers lost their life. When we first started the ANZAC ceremony, it started in 1916 

We wear poppies on ANZAC day because the red poppy is a symbol of war remembrance,when the war was over. Also people like to wear poppies on ANZAC day to show respect to the soldiers who went to war and sacrificed their life.  

Making Poppies For Art!

Today room 10 made ANZAC poppies for art. Miss Misela showed us how to create the ANZAC poppies before we got started.

When I was doing the ANZAC poppies, it was a bit hard because when we cutted out our poppy, sometimes the pieces that we cut out will fall into little pieces. The first instruction that we had to do was, fold the red piece of paper and cut it out, and then fold one of the red piece of paper.

Now we had to cut petal of a poppy on the folded piece of paper. When we opened up the piece of paper, it is shaped as a poppy. Then we did the same thing to the other half of the piece paper but when we finished cutting our petal of the paper, we opened up our paper and cut one of the petal's and glue one side to the other, so that it looked like tea cup.

Next we gave our poppies to Miss Misela to put the stick through our poppies. After Miss Misela put the stick through our poppy, we had to cut out a small strip of black and red paper, to glue it around the bottom of the poppy and for the top. Our poppies looked amazing when Miss Misela sticked them in a plastic cup to stand them up. 

I had an great time making poppies for art. It was a bit hard but I got better and made my poppy look beautiful!