23rd April 2015 - Week 1 Term 2 2015 Dates Term 2 20th April - 3rd July Term 3 20th July - 25th Sept Term 4 12th Oct - 16th Dec As part of our Anzac Day acknowledgement, Room 1 have set up a Field of Remembrance by the school entrance to commemorate the 18,200 New Zealand men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice when serving our country during World War 1 Tomorrow we will be splitting the school into 5 mixed age groups and they will move around the following activities. Significance of the poppy, making a wreath for our school representatives to lay at the cenotaph at the dawn service on Saturday. Simpson and his Donkey Anzac biscuit baking and history How schools helped in the war effort Why soldiers went to war? / marching Around 2.15 we will hold our own Anzac Service, which parents are most welcome to come along to. Can you help?? Book covering is being done on Monday the 4th May from 9am in the staffroom. Any help is much appreciated. Dawn Service Motupipi School has been invited to take part in the Takaka Anzac Day Memorial Dawn Service this Saturday morning 25 th April at the Takaka Library. We have taken part in the service over the past two years and are doing so again. The service is approximately an hour long and so our student representatives are required to stand, be quiet, respectful and attentive for the duration of the service, The plan for the day will be Meet at the Junction Hotel car park by 6.20am, March with the RSA members and band to the library at 6.30am Two Motupipi student representatives will lay a wreath After the singing of the national anthem at the end of the service, the band and marching group will march to the fire station. We already have a group who will be attending. If there are any others interested, I need to know by tomorrow, so that we can have a practice. 2.5.1916 Dear Dad and Mum, Thank you for the chocolate biscuits and leather gloves, with woollen gloves inside. When I was walking past a farm I found a stray lizard. I have now got it in the trench. It is very good with keeping the flies away. I hope all the best to you and family and could I hear from my pet tuatara. All the best. Your Uncle. Arjuna 1.7.1917 Dear Dad and Mum, Thank you very much for the leather gloves and the new pocket knife. It is very useful. We just did a 28 mile march. On the way I found a wild rabbit with a broken leg so I took it with me. Last night we set up camp in a meadow and I had a very good sleep. Tomorrow we will be marching a long way. Love from Lief Room 4—Post cards sent home from the trenches in WWI