Their Stories Our Stories
With this year being the Centenary of WW1 our class has been learning a great deal about the impact of
world war one on our community, both in the past and what the impact it will have in the future. We have
covered a range of topics in regards to the Anzac’s and the conditions they endured as well as what life
was like for those who were left behind. We watch moves, listened to speakers and visited local
presentations to learn more about Anzac Day and its significance to New Zealanders.
Links to the Nz Curriculum include
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Understanding ways in which people record and remember the past
Understanding the importance of historical events in a community
Making links between events in the past and their impact on people in the future
Our final task was to create a figure of a war hero or their relative and write a description of their character
based on the impact that war may have had on them.
By Amy Hay Year 6 Fairlie Primary School
The story behind the scenes.
The Lady sits with her eyes on a memory, a
memory of a dark cold day. The one that will
always bother her, the one when her father walks
away. How a tear has rolled down each faded
cheek as she pictures the memory once again.
Her dark, dreamy eyes glimmer in the morning
sun. Thick tears gather in her soft sagging eyelids.
Shadows prance in her eyes as her black pupils
shiver slowly.
Rows of wrinkles weave through her weathered
skin. Dimples plunge into her old cheeks. Shadows
prance across her forehead and dive into those
dark, dark, gullies.
As time passes that memory sinks to the back of
her heart and she remembers that she has to move
on.