Today Panmure Bridge held a commemoration for Armistice Day. This marks 100 years, since the first Armistice day. We remember this every year on November the 11th when the guns fell silent. We commemorate this to remember those who fought for their country during World War 1. We were lucky to have a member from the NZ Defense Force join us. During this commemoration I read the prayer at the start of the commemoration, Tiava and Jeremiah (head boy and head girl) read the ode, and Ms Kirkpatrick (deputy principal) read In Flanders Fields.
During the commemoration we were silent for a minute to remember the soldiers who died during World War 1. There were also 3 olive trees planted to represent the past, present, and future. To remember this event poppies with the signature of the students will be placed on the fence in our school. After our commemoration we had the member from the NZ defense force visit our room where he spoke to us about his career. I learnt that we he was 19 when he went to Afghanistan to help out the citizens by looking after the schools, and kids.
Max Gimblett is a New Zealand artist who's art influences people all around the World. He is well known for for his drawings, and paintings. Max Gimblett is famous for painting quatrefoil which is a decorative design of four lobes or leaves. Max has done a lot of painting works based on quatrefoils. Max Gimlet has done an amazing job to make New Zealand a wonderful place with all the quatrefoil shapes on buildings and artwork for example in 2015 there were 7,000 brass quatrefoils that were placed on the outside of St David's Church in Auckland which was known as the Art Of Remembrance. We have studied this work and it inspired our poppy design.
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