April
25 ANZAC Day Public Holiday 26 School Photos 27 Outdoor Cinema, 5:30pm 30 School Tours 30 Parent Information Evening May 4 House Cross Country 7 Dental Checks begin 11 Prep/1 Mothers Day morning 11 Division Cross Country 15-17 Yr.3&5 NAPLAN 18 Special Canteen Lunch Day 21-25 EDUCATION WEEK 21 Yr.5 BioCATS excursion 22 Open Morning 23-25 Yr.5 Camp 23-1 OSLE China Set Calendar Days: Wednesday 9am - School Banking Friday 9am- Assembly Friday - Fresh Fruit Friday, P-6 |
Welcome to Maiden Gully Primary SchoolLest We ForgetThank you to our school community for the way you have help us to commemorate ANZAC Day in 2018. This week we pay our respects to the service men and women who have protected our way of life, both home and abroad, and who continue to do so.
We thank Mr. George Wood, Vietnam Veteran for coming and speaking to our students at today's school service. Thank you and congratulations to our Student Government, with the support and guidance of Miss. Lewis and Mr. Stagg, for organising a respectful and professional assembly. Our School Captains and Vice Captains have attended the Victorian School's ANZAC Service at the Shrine in Melbourne with Mr. Arrowsmith. They will also represent Maiden Gully Primary by attending the Bendigo Service on ANZAC Day with Mr. Arrowsmith and their families. Thank you to Mr. O'Brien, Mrs. Gladman and Don for their roles in helping the Garden Club students plant the Gallipoli Oak today at the front of the school - from the soil of a friendly country. We are one of 600 schools to receive an oak tree. We are proud to have our Gallipoli Oak stand tall to represent the sacrifices, perseverance and hardship others have endured on our behalf, and also, as a symbol of our strong Maiden Gully community. Several soldiers, including Captain William Lempriere Winter-Cooke, collected and sent home acorns whilst fighting at Gallipoli, which were planted by his family in 1916 in Victoria at their home at ‘Murndal’ near Hamilton in western Victoria. In 1934, Atatürk wrote a tribute to the mothers of ANZACs killed at Gallipoli: Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives… You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side now here in this country of ours… you, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well. Lest we forget. |
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