RAAF Honour

SNC invited to centenary celebrations

St Norbert College has been chosen to participate in the Royal Australian Air Force’s national centenary celebrations.

 

This week RAAF Group Wing Commander Ross Jones and Flight Lieutenant Matt Roberts, who are based on the east coast, visited the College to meet three Year 12 students during an indigenous cultural awareness and event-planning visit to Perth.

 

Aboriginal Teaching Assistant Geraldine Martin hosted the officers’ visit to Perth, which also included tours of significant cultural locations and to meet indigenous elders.

 

Mrs Martin said it was an honour for the College to be chosen as one of six schools to participate in the 100th anniversary commemorations being planned for March 2021 at the RAAF’s WA headquarters in Bullsbrook.

 

Commander Jones told students Kadijah Brown, Nes’eya Williams and William Ishiguchi (pictured) that the RAAF was the second oldest air force in the world behind the Royal Air Force (RAF), which formed towards the end of World War One and celebrated its centenary a year ago.

Lieutenant Roberts congratulated the students on their commitment to education, adding that he was the first person in his family to complete Year 12, while Kadijah shared her connection to the RAAF as she has a family member who served in Afghanistan.

 

The students were each given a limited-edition RAAF 100th anniversary commemorative coin as a keepsake.

 

Mrs L Quartermain (Community Relations and Marketing Officer)