Armistice Day

Every year on the Saturday closest to the 11^th of November, most of the schools in the Moutere Hills participate in an athletics event to celebrate Armistice Day. (The day that the signing of the peace treaty for The Great War was done.)

When everyone came back from the war some of the soldiers and teachers decided that it would be nice to hold an athletics event to remember the soldiers and people in the war. They held the event every year on the 11^th of the 11^th to celebrate that this was the anniversary of when the peace treaty was signed.

They kept it at the same date every year until the 1960s when they changed it to the closest Saturday to the 11^th of the 11^th so that the parents could come along as well.

They held many races and competitions but the main one was the one where each of the schools competed for a trophy called the Peace Shield. They tried to hold this race at 11am on the day. This changed to the end of the day when they started holding it on the Saturdays they found that people were leaving after the race was finished.

So now we still have our athletics day for the primary schools of the Moutere hills every year.