Peace week in week 3

Do you love to sing?   Read poetry?  Play a musical instrument?  Have a dance crew?

We'd like you to audition for the upcoming lunchtime Peace concert!   

Details to be announced at Friday's singing assembly 

1st August 2014.

Anzac Day Ceremony

      

Who am I?  

By Gabrielle and Mele

I am all that I hear

I can hear silent cries of all the soldiers who have lost their comrades during war.  

I am all that I see

I see people praying for their family to keep them safe. I see people running with fear in their heart.

I am all that I smell

I smell mud mixed with blood from the ground. I smell the smoke from all the bullets that have been shot by rifles.

I am all that I taste

I can taste rough and dull ANZAC biscuits. I taste sweat from all the fighting I have done.

I am all that I feel

I feel warm bodies from my men as we huddle up to stay warm. I feel loved by my family as I lay down with tears in my eyes remembering them.

I was an officer of the NZ army.

Lest we Forget ...

In the last week of school Rosebank School held a ceremony to remember all soldiers 

who fought in all the wars.  

Thank you to our special guests Les Booth from the RSA, Deli Connell UNESCO, our community police officers and the whanau leaders and representatives from Avondale Intermediate school for joining us.

Rosebank School wait quietly for ceremony to begin

Student team ready to escort visitors in

MCs welcome everyone

Students read or recite reflections about ANZAC

Mrs Bell reads the ANZAC puppy to the school

Les Booth addresses the school and reads a moving poem

The student team present the money raised from selling poppies for the Avondale RSA.

Mr Booth is touched and sincerely thanks the school for their thoughts and efforts.

A representative from each class present their poppies for the laying of the wreaths.

The student team invite the guests to come up now

Mrs Bell and Ms Tohi

Mrs Sila'ila'i

The ceremony concludes

MCs lead the guests out

The wreaths

Well done everyone for showing the Rosebank School value of respect
during this solemn and important ceremony!

Student team with our guests - well done!

Mother language week

We celebrated Mother Language week with some great ideas from our student team.  Each morning in place of our regular karakia in Te Reo Maori, a teacher aide had been invited to greet the school and say a karakia in her own mother tongue.   At Rosebank we are rich with the many different languages spoken.  This year we had Afrikaans, Samoan, Maori, Niuean and Sinhalese.   

Student volunteers from across the school were rostered to read to a class during SSR time. They received positive praise and felt really good even though they were nervous about reading to the classes.  This year we had Samoan, Tongan and Maori readers, next year we hope to have even more.