Another year passes and today the ‘Good Morning Show’ commemorates Anzac Day. 

I can remember back in the classroom about six years ago studying this topic with Year 6-7 students.   We had a couple of veterans come in, the students made Anzac biscuits and read quite a number of books around the topic Anzac.  My favourite picture book to share with students at that time was the Bantam and the Soldier. 

While we immersed ourselves ‘quite nicely’ in the topic, three things seemed to be missing.  We figured out that there would be no way we could travel to Gallipoli, we could never quite understand how it might really feel to be part of a War and we might never know what real rationing (ie: going without foods like sugar) would mean.

Personal Learning for Me: Rememberance is about taking time to remember a time.  I can recall how my dad as an ex Naval man would attend the dawn parades and that I would watch him dress,  putting medals on his jacket.  He has since passed and so today I am taking time to remember that time and the time of others.  Lest we forget…