Today as a celebration the whole of Panmure Bridge School gathered together for the remembrance of the Armistice Commemoration. We had a representative from the New Zealand Defence Force that joined us. We also had 3 members of our school's board of trustees join us too. This day was a day for our school to gather together and mark the day of the Armistice Day. We celebrated this event by creating poppies. The Armistice Day represented those countries who signed a paper in order to stop the battle. In this event 3 of our school leaders, Mr Johnston, and Ms Kirkpatrick spoke for this event. First of all Ofa started off by saying the prayer. Then Tiava and Jeremiah said the Ode that was translated in Maori and English. During this event Ms Kirkpatrick read a poem based on this Armistice Commemoration. After that the whole school was to stand up and face the flag in silence as it was coming down. Before this event had started each class placed their poppies on the cross. Throughout this event happening 2 students from each class were to stand up and place their huge poppies onto the fence. Jack and I were the students from our class that stood up and placed the poppies onto the fence. At the back of these poppies we wrote our names on it. After this ended the representative from the New Zealand Defence Force came and talked to us.
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