As you are aware, the Fields of Remembrance Trust and the Ministry of Education have again partnered to focus on supporting all early learning services to join in the nation’s 4-year World War I (WWI) commemoration effort.
If your service has not ‘opted out’, you will be receiving a WWI Commemoration Package in the mail in early April. It is up to each early learning service how they wish to involve their children/tamariki in the establishment of a Field of Remembrance and the commemoration of Anzac Day 2016. Each Commemoration Package will include an information sheet to guide services.
Your early learning service may want to hold a community remembrance and invite veterans, members of your local RSA, local schools and whānau to attend. To make your commemoration hands on and memorable for the children, you could also make or paint poppies, learn a song, listen to The Last Post or tell stories of the men and women who served overseas and on the home front.
More ideas on how early learning services can commemorate WWI can be found at: www.education.govt.nz.
