ANZAC Essay
Each year the Raglan Club invites Year 8 (Form Two) students from Waitetuna School, Te Mata School, Te Uku School and Raglan Area School to write an essay to commemorate ANZAC Day. This year the essay was to be written about the Western Front of World War One. My class of Year 7/8 students and I now know a lot more than we wish about trench warfare and the terrible conditions New Zealanders suffered alongside the French, British and our other allies in that part of the war. "Man's inhumanity to man" indeed. Our class also worked hard to develop paragraph writing skills, and understand how a good essay is structured. On the day of the competition we walked to the Raglan Club and the students sat in silence for 90 minutes to write the essay (without any notes, books to help). I was very impressed with all of the twenty students I took. FANTASTIC essays!
Our warmest congratulations to Anjali Patel from RAS, who won the competition. The Raglan Club will award $1000 to Anjali to support her in her education costs in Year 9.