Anzac Week 2024

We will remember them

ANZAC day is a special day that commemorates all New Zealanders and Australians who have fought and died for their country.   The tamariki at Uxbridge have been joining in activities, planting poppies, making Anzac cookies and painting and making poppies to create a very special poppy wreath to share with our community. 

We have been sharing the messages that Anzac is:

A day when we remember and thank everyone that has helped to look after our country.

It's a day when we say thank you and are grateful that we live in such a great country.

It's a day when we remember that we have to look after everyone that lives in our community, including our older people who helped make it so great.

Anzac Walk 2024

This year Uxbridge Kindy  is really wanting to get the children out and about in the community, as we know that our community has has so much to offer as a learning experience.  We had the opportunity to visit the Fencible lounge , where the Rotary Club has set up a gallery showing local schools art work relating to ANZAC DAY.  

All the  children were on a Poppy hunt as we walked we spotted many different poppies in the shop window's on the street flags and as well as a beautiful poppy field set up for the parade to remember the ANZAC Soldiers.  

We made a huge wreath decorated with our poppy art and shared this with our local community.  

Spreading Joy through Story telling at Gulf Views Rest home

 

At Uxbridge we are enjoying planned and spontaneous interactions with the older residents  at Gulf views.  These visits allow both generations to enjoy each others contributions within our community and  spread joy.  With our current interest around story telling we shared one of our favourite stories "Brown Bear".  Our tamariki stood confidently and recited the story in front of the crowd who loved their expressions and story telling.  Some of our children have been multiple times to visit Gulf views and seeing their relationships grow and the easiness of the interactions is just lovely.  

The String Faeries!

The String Faeries came to visit today, what a wonderful musical experience!!  Hannah Beer & Sacha Mcleish are a dancing fiddle duo based in Southland, New Zealand, and have both been playing the fiddle for 9 years. They play a mix of lively Irish, Country, Scottish and English fiddle tunes, and are very passionate about sharing our fiddle music with others. Their hope is to inspire others to also learn a musical instrument, and to bring joy to the audiences they play to!"

Joy they definitely did bring as we enjoyed the musical talent and danced as they played.  Afterwards we were fortunate enough for Hannah and Sacha to let us all have a turn holding and playing the violin, we felt very privileged.  We also learnt some interesting information along the way and that was that the Bow is made of horse hair from it's tail.

A big thank you to Hannah and Sacha xx 

Our afternoon was then inspired to make our very own string faerie band, using our own Uxbridge musical instruments, we were just wished we had such beautiful dresses, socks and shoes to wear the children said, we did admire there outfits!