A message from the Principal
Remembering our SKiPPS ANZACs
A message from the Principal
Remembering our SKiPPS ANZACs
With ANZAC Day taking place tomorrow, our school community will spend the public holiday taking part in many of the wonderful traditions and events that help us to remember the huge sacrifice that was made by past generations of Australians who fought in wars and served in our military.
Whether you attend a dawn service or watch the Collingwood-Essendon game at the MCG, people will pay their respect and give thanks in multiple different ways.
At St Kilda Park, we are incredibly lucky to have a beautiful and permanent reminder of this selflessness and sacrifice in the form of our incredible school honour roll.
Located in our school office (above the Compass kiosk) it is well worth coming in to take a closer look.
A few years ago, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, our Year 5/6 students took part in an extensive research project to find out more about this amazing honour roll - to find out about the roll itself and also to try and discover some of the stories of the servicemen listed.
This research was collated into a book by Louise Moore (at the time our Library Specialist teacher) and this is kept at the school. We are currently exploring ways to make this more widely available to our school community.
Through this research, our students discovered a few really interesting things.
There are many interesting and touching stories and we look forward to finding a way to share this learning with anybody interested in the near future.
However, we were so impressed by the way that our students were able to use the many different historical sources to make links to these ex-students who became ANZACs and who we will remember tomorrow.
Neil Scott
Principal