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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

Friday 1 November 2019

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.

 

 

 

 

Representations of Anzac

9am - 5pm | Saturday 16 November, 2019

Cost: Teachers-$30 | Students-$20

 

Member of the Learning Team dressed as an Anzac Light Horseman

This Study Day is designed for both teachers and Year 12 Extension History students. It analyses the historical debate around the concept of Anzac.

Facilitated by Dr Jennifer Lawless, this Study Day will feature leading historians and educators who will lead our exploration of how the term Anzac has been used (and abused) for political, commercial and cultural gain. We trace the origins of the ‘spirit of Anzac’ from the landing at Gallipoli through to the 21st century. We look at how the Anzac legend grew to mythical proportions to capture the imagination of a nation.  

Focusing on Constructing History Case Study - Option 23 of the new History Extension Syllabus, content will address the areas of the Birth of a Nation and the role of Anzac in politics and culture in Australia.

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

On this day

On this day
16 February

1942— BANKA ISLAND MASSACRE. Following the sinking of the SS Vyner Brook, many of the survivors, including 22 Australian nurses, reached the shore of Banka Island. Realising that their position was desperate, an officer from the ship set out with most of the women and children to surrender the group to the Japanese. The officer returned with 20 Japanese soldiers who ordered all the men capable of walking to move to hidden part of the beach and killed them. They then returned to the beach and ordered the 22 nurses and 1 British civilian woman to walk into the water. They were machine-gunned in the back. All the immobile survivors were then killed. Sister Vivian Bullwinkle pretended to be dead and was the only survivor