Burnett secondary students are encouraged to enter the 2015 Premier’s Anzac Prize for their chance to experience the historic Anzac Day centenary commemoration at Gallipoli next year.
It would be great to have local high school students among the 70 statewide who attend next year’s 100th anniversary of the Anzac campaign at Gallipoli.
The 2015 Premier’s Anzac Prize presents a wonderful once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students to attend the centenary commemorations and learn a little more about our ANZAC history and their ongoing legacy.
Every year the participating students are the envy of their peers as they travel half way across the globe to honour Australian service men and women.
Students from Year 8 to Year 11 are eligible to enter the competition and must submit an original two to five minute multimedia presentation on how the Anzac tradition has shaped the nation, why it is still important and how future generations can keep the spirit alive.
Entries opened on 20 April and close on 19 September 2014.
The 2014 Premier’s Anzac Prize winners were farewelled on April 19 at the Queensland Museum, where they were presented with poppies, commemorative items and a wreath to be laid at Gallipoli.
The five students and their two teacher chaperones embarked on their two-week journey to Gallipoli and the Western Front on 20 April.
The Premier’s Anzac Prize provides an unforgettable educational experience which helps ensure important lessons of the past are learned and that we keep the Anzac spirit alive.
Queenslanders can follow the 2014 journey online and view the reports, photos and footage from past winners at http://education.qld.gov.au/students/grants/scholarships/anzac/index.html
The first Premier’s Anzac Prize contingent travelled to Turkey, Belgium and France last year as part of the program – a $1.442 million election commitment.
The 2014 Premier’s Anzac Prize farewell was held at the Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt exhibition at the Queensland Museum, which is the first stop for the Australian War Memorial’s touring collection.
The photographs, of mostly unidentified World War One Australian soldiers, were discovered in the attic of a French farmhouse three years ago. http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/photographs/vignacourt/