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24 April 2017

Remembering the men and women who acted with courage to protect our way of life is the essence of ANZAC Day, and our schools mark the significance of the event in many ways.

As well as ceremonies in schools leading up to ANZAC Day, schools have engaged in activities for some rich learning experiences for their students. Lest we forget.

• Students from Corpus Christi School, Glenroy, continued a tradition they began in 2010, laying a wreath for members of the 22nd Squadron at the Shrine of Remembrance.
• Students from Our Lady of Sion College, Box Hill; St Luke the Evangelist, Blackburn; Our Holy Redeemer School, Surrey Hills; and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School, Surrey Hills joined with the Box Hill RSL for a local wreath laying ceremony.
• Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Braybrook, students are selling pins to raise funds and awareness for the ANZAC appeal as well as participating in a local march.
• Salesian College, Sunbury, students have had first-hand experience examining World War 1 artefacts delivered from the Australian War Memorial.
• The library staff at Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie, have created a display of books to help students better understand the sacrifices of war.
• Students from Star of the Sea College, Brighton, and Genazzano FCJ College, Kew, recently returned from the Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize Overseas Study Tour during which they visited places of national significance in Darwin and Singapore to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin and the fall of Singapore in World War II.
• Students from Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Oakleigh; Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak; Marymede Catholic College, South Morang; and Star of the Sea College, Brighton will also be participating in the Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize Canberra Study Tour in the first week of the Term 2 holidays to visit sites of national significance in Canberra.
• St Peter’s School, Sunshine South West, is one of 600 schools participating in the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Gallipoli Oaks Project, planting an oak tree on the school grounds as a lasting tribute to fallen soldiers of World War 1.
• Student from St Joseph’s College, Newtown and Clonard College, Herne Hill, joined together for a commemoration ceremony. The St Joseph’s students then participated in workshops from learning about military life to making ANZAC biscuits.
• Year 11 students from Avila College, Mount Waverley, have created poppies for an art installation.
• Visiting from Lebanon, Mother Superior Judith Haroun joined students from Antonine College, Coburg, for a special prayer service at the Cedar Campus.
• Grade 4 students at St Monica’s School, Footscray, are organising this year’s commemoration and using rosemary grown at the school as one of the symbols of remembrance.
• Nazareth College, Noble Park North, held a special whole-school ceremony that included: an outline of the Gallipoli landing; a look at why Anzac Day is so important to Australians; a tribute to the original Anzacs, including excerpts from letters written by the soldiers; and concluded with a photo tribute to the relatives of staff and students who have served in the Armed Forces.