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Following Anzac Day, this issue of Education Gazette highlights how remembrance and history are inspiring learning across Aotearoa.
In Taranaki, students at Ōmata School have kept a decade-long Anzac tradition alive – researching, remembering, and even restoring the legacy of two former students once excluded from their local war memorial.
In Ōtautahi | Christchurch, St Andrew’s College holds remembrance at the heart of school life, with student speeches, pipe band tributes, and global battlefield tours connecting ākonga with the stories of former students who served.
At Queen Elizabeth College in Palmerston North, students are learning discipline, leadership and pride through a military-style service academy that culminates in marching alongside veterans each Anzac Day. And in Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, school principal Sheryll Ofner reflects on her whānau legacy of service and how it has shaped her approach to leadership – honouring her father’s memory while creating a culture of care, connection and courage in her kura. We also celebrate the voices of rangatahi through the Ngarimu Waiata Composition Competition, where students have created powerful tributes to their tīpuna and the 28th (Māori) Battalion, showing how creativity is an intrinsic part of storytelling and honouring the past.
These stories remind us that remembrance is not confined to a single day on the calendar. It can be found in every thoughtful lesson, every researched name, every song sung with pride – each moment helping our young people understand who they are and where they come from.
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua. I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past.
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- How Sheryll Ofner is leading with heart, history and purpose
- Keeping history alive: St Andrew’s College and its ANZAC traditions
- Structure, service and self-belief in Palmerston North
- Ōmata School honours the past and restores a legacy
- On the ground with Miles Harrington
- School surfing programme making waves on the East Coast
- Honouring tīpuna through the inaugural Ngarimu Waiata Composition Competition
- Young drivers at apex of road safety education in schools
- Crunching the numbers on new maths PLD
- Learning with purpose: Gabriella Keil’s journey to becoming a Māori nurse
- Education Service Desk transition to N4L.
