While the weather wasn’t exactly harmonious today, our students had a wonderful time celebrating Harmony Day. It was lovely to see so many orange and cultural dress outfits at Tighes Hill today! Students worked together to create beautiful worry dolls and rock art that represent each of their individual identities and cultures. A huge thank you to our generous families who brought in food to share and to our wonderful family helpers who assisted in serving food at lunch.
Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Harmony Day at Tighes Hill PS today. It was so wonderful to see so many kids dressed in orange and traditional dress and talking about why they had chosen their outfits. Our Year 6 students got the chance to be mini teachers today and visit other classes and help students create their own personalised boomerang artworks with a variety of Aboriginal symbols and Maori symbols and patterns. These boomerangs are going to be displayed at school in an art display set up by Mrs Derricott. We shared a harmonious lunch with our families and my goodness was there a lot of food! There were so many dishes from different cultures and everyone was very keen to try something new. Thank you so much to our generous families for the amazing food you brought in and shared today. After lunch, we enjoyed performances from all year groups, as well as our Junior and Senior Choirs, led by our talented Miss Hibbert. Please enjoy these photos and videos from our Harmony Day celebrations below.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate Harmony Day. We had a wonderful day focusing on this year’s theme, ‘our diversity is our strength’. Students took part in a range of cultural activities throughout the day which began with our Year 6s helping students from each class to create a Mandala installation using recycled bottle tops on the bottom court. Thank you to Jane for organising and leading this activity – the finished Mandala looked absolutely beautiful! Our Year 5s worked with their kinder buddies to make worry dolls. All students contributed to this year’s whole school art project – a giant Koinobori fish – by painting and sharing their handprint and all students created their own totem which will be made into a whole school totem display. Thanks to the canteen for their terrific effort, making over 400 lunches today! We raised over $250 in donations which will go towards our World Vision sponsor student, Subrata Das, from Bangladesh. Our student performances were excellent. Thanks to our wonderful music teacher Miss Hibbert for organising this year’s performance items. Below is a slideshow with moments from today’s celebrations.
