Over recent years, Unley Primary School has been represented proudly at the ANZAC Dawn Service at the Memorial Gardens.

Members of our student leadership team and other families and friends connected to our school, have participated in the service, through song and the sharing of readings for those gathered.

Although the Unley dawn service was slightly modified this year, meaning fewer members of the community could attend, a small group of our student leaders still got up bright and early to represent our school. Iris and Arabella laid a tribute of native flowers and sprigs of rosemary on the plaque dedicated to old scholars of the Unley Primary School community who contributed to the WWI effort.

This week the students in Paula’s Year 4 class have been remembering our fallen soldiers by writing writing poetry. Please take a moment to read their work below.

 

Small trenches by bodies dug

Heart stopping diseases, spread by bugs.

Flaming lanterns with bombs done,

In trenches deep they lie, bullets still come and lives are lost and blood spilt.

Flynn

 

Gunfire rang out like a bell.

Grab your rifle, surrounded by shells.

Falling on the hard rock real fast,

We hear out bombs going off. Hope is rising at last.

As images of family flood your brain, you hope to see them once again.

Alfie

 

Tears streaming down their face.

People disappear without a trace.

Although one battle is done,

They still have much more to come…

Heading home…leaving base.

Ash

 

When I got here, I thought it was going to be fun.

But now every day I hear the sound of a gun.

Lucius

 

Guns’ fire, people dive.

Hopeful stares, prayers to survive.

Horrible conditions, sickness spread.

Many lives lost, blood running from the head.

Poppy

 

Images of war flood my mind,

as I remember those who died.

Harsh living,

Wilful giving,

Hoping they survived.

Aaliya

 

Tears would flow into wet muddy roads.

As bombs covering the ground would explode.

No time for thoughts to flood their heads,

Lest their souls go home because they are dead.

Hopeful yet of a better day….a lighter load.

Lila