ANZAC Day commemorations in Te Pihi 2024

"ANZAC" stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ANZAC Day is to remember all the Australian and New Zealanders who gave their lives in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping missions around the world. It is also a time to remember and thank all those who have served and have continued to serve in the Australian and New Zealand armies.

We baked ANZAC biscuits today to remember the soldiers who served our country at war.

Billy is helping to add the ingredients into the bowl.

Millie is helping to mix all the ingredients together.

Frankie is rolling the biscuit mixture into a ball.

And here are our yummy biscuits all ready to eat.

We ate our yummy ANZAC biscuits at the flag pole.

Here are our poppy pictures (done using a YouTube tutorial for kids).

ANZAC Day 2023

ANZAC Day is the day that people in New Zealand and Australia remember the soldiers who went to war. ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps. In New Zealand we wear poppies. The red poppy is used as a symbol for remembering those who fought and died in World War One. In New Zealand we bake and eat Anzac biscuits. During World War 1, women from New Zealand and Australia used to send biscuits to the soldiers. We made Anzac biscuits and they were so yummy!

We measured out the ingredients and mixed it all together in a bowl.

Then we stirred it all together.

And last of all Mrs Hammond and Michele rolled the mixture into small balls. 

Then Mikayla helped to flatten the balls with a fork so they look more like biscuits.

Michele put the tray into the hot oven to bake. 

We had to wait about 10 minutes for them to cook. We were so excited to taste our biscuits!

Michele brought a very, very old German war helmet to school for us to look at and try on.

And we did some "Anzac Art" with Mrs Brydon.

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