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River Heights – a micro nation May 11, 2009

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The students from the Alexandra and Wanaka S.T.A.R programmes created micro nations: they thought up fact files, decided on economies, created national costumes, produced maps and models.  Then they met together to present  their micro nations to each other – they came dressed in their micro nation’s national costume and bought with them their national food to eat!

River Heights Micro Nation

River Heights Micro Nation (c)

This is River Heights:

  A folder, a photo board and a diarama was produced to introduce other students to this micro nation.

 

 

 

 

River Heights National Flag: 

River Heights Flag

River Heights Flag (c)

“The blue horizontal lines represent the calm flow of River Heights amazing River.  The fish represents the freedom of swimming up and down the river on your own accord and the white stands for purity”.

“Motto: Just go with the flow!  There will be obstacles in life , you just have to swim right through them and go with the flow.”

Introducing River Heights Costumes:

River Heights Costume 2

The national food is shrimp and salmon on toothpicks, dipped in thousand island dressing.

 

Meeting of the Minds in Alexandra April 25, 2009

The last day of  term 1, the children got together in Alexandra to present their Micronation.

  • they dressed up as citizen of their nation,
  • they created a display which explains their micronation: flag, map, fact files…
  • They shared their national food
  • And had lots of fun!
Micronation Presentation (c) Maia

Micronation Presentation (c) Maia

 

 
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