Anzac Day Commemoration Service assembly

Every year on the 25th of April, Australians attend dawn services and veterans’ parades in reverence of the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs). As it is a public holiday and fell during the school holidays, Granville Boys High School chose to honour and remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in war at our first assembly of Term 2, on Thursday, May 2.

We also pay respect to those who have returned from the battlefield, some bearing physical scars and others with emotional ones. Australians recognise the 25th of April as a day of national commemoration. Services are held across the nation at dawn, the time of the original landing at Gallipoli. Later in the day, ex-servicemen and women gather to participate in marches and wreath-laying ceremonies throughout many cities and towns. Commemorative events are also held at war memorials around the country and overseas. It is a day when Australians reflect on the many different meanings of war and sacrifice.

The Anzac Day Commemoration Service assembly consisted of the following:

1. Acknowledgement of Traditional Ownership of the Land
2. Whole school address by Principal N. Dixon
3. Welcome address by Donovan
4. Historical overview by Eesa
5. ANZAC values by Bennett
6. First reading by Hudhaifah
7. Laying of the wreath by Milad
8. Ode reading by Mahmoud
9. Second reading by Khaled
10. Playing of the Last Post
11. One minute silence
12. National anthem. 

The Pipe Band performed Amazing Grace, Waltzing Matilda and Scots Wha Hae (see video below). We would like to thank all the students and staff who were involved in making this such a special and solemn assembly.