We commemorated this day at school by creating mosaics for our school Resilience Garden that is being established and will grow over the next few months.
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| First the tiles had to be broken into smaller pieces |
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| Next the pieces of tile were glued to a base tile |
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| Adding tile pieces to create a 'Helping Hand' mosaic |
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Everyone in the school got a turn to help create one of the tiles for our new Resilience Garden. We created 20 'Helping Hands' tiles to represent all the many different people, schools and organisations from around Aotearoa who helped us in lots of different ways.
We also created 6 large tiles representing different things - a large heart representing the aroha shown to us; a picture of the Cathedral to remember this iconic building that crumbled in the February quake; a large koru fern representing new beginnings; a sun to represent the bright future that lies ahead of us; two hands reaching out in front of a mound of earth with a seedling beginning to grow to represent the help and support we have to help us rebuild our lives; and lastly the Rise Up Christchurch symbol to represent our resilience, strength and determination to be strong and move on with our lives.
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| The large heart mosaic, ready for grouting |
At 12:51pm we all gathered together to remember those who passed away or were injured or had their homes damaged. We observed a minute's silence.
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| Matua Te Rau & Mr Boyd planted the first tree in our Resilience Garden |
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| Matua Te Rau said a karakia Later on in the afternoon some kotiro from R2 made a giant heart in the sandpit.  |
