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).

Go the All Blacks!

Paparore School are getting behind the New Zealand All Blacks for their final game against South Africa (the Springboks) in the Rugby World Cup in Paris, France. We dressed up in black for our school's "Black Out Day" to show our support. Some of us will hopefully get up early on Sunday morning to watch the big game. Good luck ABs from Te Pihi!

A Visit from a NZ Olympic Ambassador - Alexis Pritchard

39 year old former NZ Olympic boxer came to Paparore School this morning. We learnt some important values from her talk this morning 

EXCELLENCE

FRIENDSHIP

RESPECT

Here are some ways we can show this: 

1. Never give up when you lose, go back and try again
2. Show respect for your opponent 
3. Always do your best in anything you do 
4. Be brave, even when you're scared or trying something new

Paparore School Olympics

Today was our Olympics dress-up day at Paparore School.

We had a special visitor come to talk to us all about winning a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He was the goal keeper for the NZ mens' hockey team and saved an important goal which smashed his knee cap. A very interesting fact we learnt was that he is our teacher aide Michele's great uncle!

Then after morning tea we held our own Olympics day and rotated about seven different sports activities. The focus was on participation and as a reward we were given an ice block. It was so much fun!

We played a basketball-running game with Whaea Saroya.

Our long jump Olympian, Sylvie had a good technique!

We had running races.

The gumboot throw was fun.

Rachael enjoyed the shot put.

We played football.

The tug of war.

Thank you Emirates Team NZ

During Term 1, Te Pihi wrote letters of congratulations to Emirates Team New Zealand for their awesome efforts in winning the America's Cup.

In Term 2 we were thrilled to receive a mystery parcel sent to us! 

In the parcel was a lovely letter to thank us for our letters and a huge poster signed by all the 2021 team! You can check it out on the corridor wall outside our classroom door. 

There was also a quality Team NZ cap for every child in the class! We were so stoked that we wore them all day!!

Thank you Emirates Team New Zealand!