By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS
STUDENTS at St Brigid’s Primary School gathered to watch a presentation about the Anzacs on Friday morning before planting a field of hand-made poppies at the school.
Students, parents and family members attended an information session at the primary school about the history of Anzacs in WWI and the Gallipoli campaign.
Students then made their way to the front of the school where turf had been laid to form a mini version of Flanders Fields under a flag flying at half-mast.
Students had been learning about WWI in the lead-up to the centenary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli and their hard work showed in the ceremony.
Students Lakoda Scopel and Vincent Belford led a ceremony of remembrance and commemoration before other students, teachers and guests of the school
Student Perry Byron brought forward an oak sapling to be planted on the school grounds as a marker of the significance of the Anzac Centenary and Brother Darcy Byron proudly wore and presented a genuine slouch hat from the war.
At the end of the ceremony, students, teachers and guests were invited to place poppies made by the students into the fresh turf to recreate the sea of poppies of Flanders Fields.
