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ANZAC Day 2015 – A Hundred Years From Now by Rupert McCall

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One of my favourite Australian poets, Rupert McCall has written this moving ode “A Hundred Years From Now” as a tribute to our Diggers to commemorate the landing of the ANZACs at Gallipoli, one hundred years ago… 

You might also like to read the poem Rupert McCall wrote for the 90 Year Gallipoli Anniversary called “Ninety Years Ago” and performed on ANZAC Day as the sun rose over Anzac Cove.

When you go home,
Tell them of us and say,
“For your Tomorrow
We gave our Today.”
(John Maxwell Edmunds 1916)

ANZAC Day…Ninety Years Ago by Rupert McCall

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A few years ago I taught an ANZAC Day unit with the Grade 6 classes and I  shared with them one of my favourite poems called Ninety Years Ago by Rupert McCall who is one of our modern Australian poets.  Rupert McCall wrote this poem to commemorate the 90 year anniversary of the Landing at Gallipoli.  He shared his poem on ANZAC Day on the beach at Anzac Cove at Gallipoli just as the sun was rising over the water. To this day it is still one of the most moving ANZAC Day moments I have ever watched.  You can read Rupert’s poem Ninety Years Ago below…

Ninety Years Ago

One of the Grade 6 students, Christopher B was so inspired by the poem that he wrote his own version of Ninety Years Ago and you can listen to it here Ninety Years Ago – adapted by ChrisB

 

Gallipoli 098photo © 2008 Robin | more info (via: Wylio)

 

This is a book trailer for the book  Simpson and his Donkey written by Mark Greenwood 

What does ANZAC Day mean to you?

 

ANZAC Day poem

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Two years ago I taught an ANZAC Day unit with the Grade 6 classes.  We did a lot of researching about what every day life would have been like for the soldiers at Gallipoli.  I also shared with them one of my favourite poems called Ninety Years Ago by Rupert McCall who is one of our modern Australian poets.  Rupert McCall wrote this poem to commemorate the 90 year anniversary of the Landing at Gallipoli.  He shared his poem on ANZAC Day on the beach at Anzac Cove at Gallipoli just as the sun was rising over the water. To this day it is still one of the most stirring ANZAC Day moments I have ever watched.  You can read Rupert’s poem Ninety Years Ago below…

Ninety Years Ago

One of the Grade 6 students, Christopher B was so inspired by the poem that he wrote his own version of Ninety Years Ago and you can listen to it here Ninety Years Ago – adapted by ChrisB

Gallipoli 098photo © 2008 Robin | more info (via: Wylio)

What does ANZAC Day mean to you?