Students from Year 7 Green have been raising the national flags each school day on the College’s flagpoles outside Dublin House. Australian National Flag Day, proclaimed in 1996 as a national day, celebrates the first time the flag was flown on 3 September 1901. On that day the Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, announced the winners of a competition to design a flag for Australia.

To raise awareness about the day a few students from Year 7 Green visited the Year 10 Jade homeroom (pictured above) and the Australian flag was displayed and information was shared about the symbolism in the flag. As a mark of mourning and respect for Queen Elizabeth II, the flags have been flown at half mast this week.

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