Rosemary For Remembrance (Stages 1 & 2)
Duration: 2 hours | Times: 9:30-11:30am; 12:00-2:00pm
Cost: $240 for up to 20 students / $480 for 20-40 students / $720 for 40-60 students / $960 for 60-80 students
In this highly engaging and creative workshop, students will investigate history through the stories and lives of our Anzacs. Students discover the meaning behind the rich symbols and emblems within the Anzac Memorial, and how they relate to servicepeople, the places they served, and the groups they belonged to.
Using art, objects and storytelling as a creative starting point, students will learn more about the places our Anzacs came from, where they went and how the Anzac Memorial helps us remember them, along with the way commemorations such as Anzac Day contribute to a shared sense of identity.
Through real Anzac stories, students will discover the importance of volunteering as a form of active citizenship and discover the origin and work of the Anzac Memorial as a New South Wales organisation that responds to a community need. Students will also take part in a unique creative activity drawing inspiration from their own lives in response to the Anzac values of courage, endurance and sacrifice.
"At first I thought bore History! But today, I realized how important the Anzac Memorial is (and that history isn’t boring!) I will remember courage, endurance and sacrifice."
– Stage 2 Student
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Amazing Anzacs (Stage 3)
Duration: 2 hours | Times: 9:30-11:30am; 12:00-2:00pm
Cost: $240 for up to 20 students / $480 for 20-40 students / $720 for 40-60 students / $960 for 60-80 students
With courage in their hearts our first Anzacs left our shores to fight on foreign soil. As investigative historians, students will follow clues throughout the Anzac Memorial that lead them to the stories of four real Anzacs who helped define our past.
Hands on, interactive and engaging, students will immerse themselves in a pivotal part of history that helped create Australia a nation, discovering real sources in our Centenary Exhibition as evidence. Students will research and describe the work of these four Anzacs who made a significant contribution to Australia.
On a tour of the Memorial, students will be asked to explain how the features of the Memorial’s artworks communicate meaning and explore their own creativity in response to the unique sculptures and architecture in the Memorial building by creating a living sculpture to express ideas about their own world.
"This is deliberately the best excursion I have been on in my life!"
– Stage 3 Student
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Devoted Service (Stage 3)
Duration: 2 hours | Times: 9:30-11:30am; 12:00-2:00pm
Cost: $480 for up to 40 students / $720 for 40-60 students / $960 for 60-80 students / $1200 for 80-100 students / $1440 for 100-120 students
In this workshop, students will see the lives of courageous servicewomen brought to life in a live theatrical experience. Created entirely from letters and diary entries, this performance explores different perspectives from women who served in the First World War, and who were numbered among the first Anzacs.
Focusing on the role of nurses and matrons, this workshop explores how women made a significant contribution to Australia and had a role in shaping Australia as a nation. In a piece of creative writing, students are encouraged to put themselves in the shoes of a nurse in response to the performance.
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Anzac War Horses (Stage 3)
Duration: 2 hours | Times: 9:30-11:30am; 12:00-2:00pm
Cost: $480 for up to 40 students / $720 for 40-60 students / $960 for 60-80 students / $1200 for 80-100 students / $1440 for 100-120 students
In this exciting, inspiring, and moving workshop, we explore the role of the Australian Light Horse through a combination of history, literacy and drama. In a compelling live performance, an actor brings to life Loyal Creatures by acclaimed children’s author, Morris Gleitzman. This amazing Australian war horse story will help uncover how the Anzacs made a significant contribution to the Commonwealth of Australia after Federation, and helped develop Australia as a nation.
On a tour of the Anzac Memorial, students will discover true Anzac stories, and the rich symbols and emblems throughout the building connected to Anzac history and Australian identity. Students will also have an opportunity to for a Q&A with our actor and respond with their own piece of creative writing.
Current NSW Curriculum links (until 2026)
