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Our continuing professional development is tailored to teachers’ needs; incorporates high quality content and takes strength from partnership opportunities that combine both forces and resources to inspire and invigorate teaching practices.

Deconstructing Memory: Joint Anzac Memorial / Sydney Jewish Museum teacher training

6 hours of NESA accredited professional development

Thursday 5 November 2020

Cost: $70 - includes lunch and seminar materials

Teachers participating in a Star Ceremony in the Hall of Memory

In partnership with the Sydney Jewish Museum, this full-day program will address areas of the Year 11 Core The Nature of Modern History, considering particularly History and Memory and
Representation and Commemoration of the Past. Held across both the Sydney Jewish Museum and the Anzac Memorial, teachers will consider how these spaces might be used as site
studies, unpacking the ways history and memory are inscribed in our buildings and understood by those who work within them. 

 

 

 

To register your interest, please contact education@anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au, or telephone 02 8262 2904.

 

 

 

 

Member of the Learning Team dressed as an Anzac Light Horseman
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On this day

On this day
17 February

1900 — Troops of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles formed part of major attack at PAARDEBERG, South Africa. This attack led to the surrender of GEN. Piet Cronje and 4000 of his troops. This was the last major action of the BOER WAR

1970 — 8 RAR and 1st Armoured Regiment were engaged in the Battle of LONG HAI, Vietnam. 8 RAR was awarded a Meritorious Unit Citation including Cross of Valour with Palm Unit Citation by the South Vietnamese Government for this action.