Anzac Day dawn services across the country were very different this year due to social distancing regulations but many of our staff and students still honoured our fallen and those who have sacrificed so much for our nation on Saturday 25 April.
Music teacher Ms Lauren Innes joined many other brass players across Australia in playing The Last Post on her cornet in her driveway as part of the Music for Mateship campaign. While she played music in the dark, she later shared photos of herself (above).
“The 6am driveway Anzac Day service was a unique and very moving experience for many. I was genuinely concerned that our neighbours would be angry about being woken up by a cornet. To see our street lined with candles and neighbours out, paying their respects to our fallen, was an uplifting sight in these extraordinary times.
“I was one of a chorus of Last Post buglers that could be heard eerily cannoning throughout our suburb, and that sound is something I will never forget. The respect of the minute’s silence wrapped up by the Rouse was a fitting tribute to extraordinary generations of people who gave so much for us.”
Vice Captain Harrison George and Humanities prefect Casey Parker-Turner have also shared photos of themselves at the end of their driveways at home at dawn (below).
Well done to everyone who found a way to Light Up the Dawn on Saturday 25 April. Lest we forget.
