On 3rd of September 2014 on a Wednesday, we went to an excursion at the Shrine of Remembrance day Melbourne, to remember the people who battled for Australia.
We got there by bus and then we were seated in specific seats. A few minuets later we were handed out booklets of what was going to happen, and what we were going to do.
We were seated at 10:45 with others schools there as well. It started at 11:00am…. A person named Mr Paul Sheahan started to talk, who was here (schools), and then he got a chaplain to read a paragraph (prays).
After the chaplain finished what he said, we then had song, sang by a choir, the song was called “Be still my soul”
After the song had finished we then listened to some prepared speeches on Mateship and Teamwork
1st was: Ben Martin reading “Teamwork in the battle of the Bismarck sea”
2nd was : Mitch Groenewald reading “Mateship on the Kooda Track”
3rd was: Kynen Teesdale reading “Chaplaincy and Mateship”
4th was: Adele Pridham reading “Mateship in the horrors of hellfires pass”
5th was: Keanu stinson reading “Mateship at the Caulfield Recruit camp”
Last was: Maggie Brittingham reading “Teamwork on a battle class destroyer” To me all of their speeches were great!
After the prepared speeches we sang another song and it was called “i am Australian”
After the song we had a keynote address from Rear Admiral John lord.
A few minuets after the Rear Admiral John Lord had finished we had the chaplain to read another a paragraph again.
Before the last paragraph that the chaplain was going to read we had a minuet of silence and then we sang the National Anthem (while we were standing up).
It was a few minuets later after then sit down and got ready for the conclusion, and we had a stretch and we also had refreshments. Before we knew it we went back to school.