When you go home
Tell them of us
And say
“For your Tomorrow,
We gave our Today.”
John Maxwell Edmunds 1916
Last year, one of my favourite Australian poets, Rupert McCall wrote a moving ode called “A Hundred Years From Now” as a tribute to our Diggers to commemorate the landing of the ANZACs at Gallipoli, one hundred years ago…
Rupert McCall helps us to remember…
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)
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…
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
This is a book trailer for the book Simpson and his Donkey written by Mark Greenwood