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Students Embrace Anzac Tradition

BY DI SNEDDON

Students across the district took part in Anzac Day Services proud to represent their schools by marching, performing and laying wreaths.

Singleton High held their own service on April 27 that had a special focus on the Vietnam War.

Invited guests included a number of representatives from Legacy.

Students from the school’s music and drama departments took to the stage performing music from the Vietnam era and an original play reflecting the devastation of war and the ongoing impact of lives lost.

Lieutenant Brendan Smith from the Lone Pine Barracks gave the address and reminded those in the audience that Anzac Day is not a celebration of war but a day to remember the sacrifice made by ordinary men and women to protect our way of life.

Singleton RSL sub-branch secretary Trevor Stewart congratulated the students on the respect they showed to Anzac Day.

Singleton High School drama students perform for Singleton High’s Anzac Day ceremony.
Muswellbrook Anzac Day March always involves all the local schools, including St Joseph’s Aberdeen, a legacy left by the late Greg Cole and supported by the current RSL Sub-branch as a way to insure the Anzac legacy lives on in the next generation.
Students and teachers from Rainbows in Singleton lay a wreath during the main service at Burdekin Park.
Deon Edwards and Harry Lomax from Singleton Heights Public School lay a wreath.
Nicholas Den Hartog and Livinia Martin from Muswellbrook Public School read In Flanders Fields by John McRae during the Muswellbrook service.
Muswellbrook High School students Phoebe Wolfgang and Jade Constable featured throughout the service leading hymns and the anthems.
The laying of wreaths is an important part of the annual Anzac Day service, here vice captains Leyhton Carroll and Amelia Barnes from Muswellbrook South Public School stepping up to place their school’s totem.
The laying of wreaths is an important part of the annual Anzac Day service, here vice captains Leyhton Carroll and Amelia Barnes from Muswellbrook South Public School stepping up to place their school’s totem.

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