Student Achievement
Anzac Day Report
28 April
After the disappointment of missing Anzac Day celebrations in 2020, the whole College Community celebrated Anzac Day 2021 on Friday 24th
April. The day started with the flag at half-mast.
At 10:30 a.m. the community gathered on the front lawn surrounding the flagpole. The Year 12 SRC, supported by Gerard Macklin, led the commemoration with some explanation of what occurred on that first ANZAC Day April 25, 1915, including the landing on the Gallipoli shores and the issues the ANZAC’s faced. This was followed by a Gospel reading. Then the reading of the Ode while our school captains laid a wreath at the foot of the flagpole. The last post was played followed by a minute’s silence and then the rouse with the raising of the flag. Finally, the National Anthem was played and sung. The respect of the students was palpable in the silence and reverence that the whole student body displayed during the commemoration.
On Sunday 25th April, Damascus College was represented at two local ANZAC Day Ceremonies, Ballarat and Buninyong. The College Captains, Maya Tolliday and Shaun Leonard attended the Buninyong event at the RSL supported by Adrian Newman, while Payton Overall and Erica Webb were at the Cenotaph in Ballarat, supported by Tony Haintz. Lieutenant Colonel Shaun Richards, commander of Ballarat’s own 7/8 Royal Victorian Regiment, gave the Anzac oration. Damascus College students joined the officer in the laying of the wreath at the foot of the cenotaph.
Lest we forget