In South Africa we have eleven (yes, eleven) official languages!
Here is a Peace Day message for all our friends in three of the languages most commonly spoken in our province, the Western Cape:
ENGLISH
AFRIKAANS (based on Dutch)
and XHOSA
These lovely posters were created by our talented Art teacher, Monni Crous. See our Creative Arts blog, where she shares many of her stunning lessons!
Our Grade 6 classes are once again exchanging cranes with students in Australia and Hawaii. This year we are also sending cranes to Guatemala and possibly Japan. We look forward to receiving cranes from these schools too.
Happy Peace Day everyone!
Wow, a whole year has gone by and we are back here to create Cranes for Peace again in 2014! We look forward to again working with schools around the globe to celebrate World Peace Day on 21 September. Watch this space!
Look what has arrived! We are very proud to have participated in this project this year and look forward to spreading more Peace in 2014!
Wishing all the Peace Crane Project participants a very Blessed and Peaceful Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!
Elkanah’s Grade 6 Eagles were so pleased when they received their drawings from the students at Smolenskaya School №1, in Russia!
We were so excited to finally receive our parcel of peace cranes from Russia! Included in the envelope were some gifts as well as a drawing for each one of the students in our Grade 6 Eagles class, drawn by the students from the Smolenskaya School №1 in Altai krai, Russia. They were very special and so beautifully drawn and painted. More photos to follow.
It has been a busy two weeks, so I have not had a chance to update the blog, but about 10 days ago we received a parcel from Hawaii. This is what was inside it:
So colourful! Very fitting for Hawaiian cranes. Thank you Ms Kurashige and students at the Mid-Pacific Institute – we love your cranes!
We are still eagerly awaiting a parcel from Siberia… we do hope they arrive soon.
We were spoilt in Cape Town last week. Two parcels in two days!
This time the peace cranes were received from The Phoenix School in Salem, Massachusetts. Along with the cranes we also received a lovely letter and a beautiful poem written by the Phoenix School students. I would like to share it with you:
Now, please explain this to me – if the children of the world understand peace, how is it that we adults get it so wrong?
Last week Thursday a parcel arrived for us from Pennsylvania in the USA! Inside were beautiful peace cranes, a letter from the teachers and students at St Ignatius, some Halloween stickers and a postcard from Pennsylvania.
The letter was very special and in it were some messages of Peace the school wanted to share with us. I’s like to share them with you. I’m sure you will find them as special as we did!
Make peace in our world.
May peace be with you.
May peace begin in your heart.
Let peace be in your neighbours.
Peace be everywhere.
Peace in your classroom.
May the peace of Jesus spread in your school.
Let peace surround us all.
Let peace blossom where you live.
Today is our first day back to school for our last term of the year and in my pigeon hole was this envelope.I was so excited to see it . These are the first cranes our school has received as sadly the cranes from our exchange school in Siberia were lost in the mail.
Thank you to the children from Elkanah who created these. The children are back to school tomorrow and they will be so exited to see them and I’m sure they will say how beautiful and creative they are.
I will post some more photos soon.
Cranes 4 Peace 