Congratulations to GT Online students Lily Moses (Champion Bay SHS), Ella Tennant and Dylan McKenzie (both Kalbarri DHS) who have been selected for the Premier’s Anzac Student Tour for 2025. For the initial part of the competition, the students wrote an essay on why memorials are important in remembering our Anzacs. Ella wrote about the HMAS Sydney II Memorial in Geraldton, Dylan researched and wrote about the 22nd Commando Squadron which was led by his Great, Great Uncle while Lily investigated the Sandakan Memorial which stands in Boyup Brook. Having been announced as finalists, they attended an interview during the October holidays after which the 10 students who make up the tour group were selected. The students represent schools across the state, including from Broome, Kalbarri, Geraldton, Perth, and Norseman. They will travel to Japan from 17 to 27 April 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. While in Japan, they will also have the opportunity to reflect on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and recognise the significant acts of reconciliation that have occurred between our nations since this time. The tour group were recently presented with certificates acknowledging their selection by the Director General at a ceremony in Anzac House in Perth.
We are very proud of Lily, Ella and Dylan and recognise the incredible guidance and support provided by their dedicated GT Online HASS teacher Sue Thomson.
