CARMEL College arts student Madelyn Arnold, helped by students and staff, have decorated the school with an installation showcasing poppies for Anzac Day.
The sea of poppies titled The Poppy is for Sacrifice was installed in a grass area in front of the library and incorporated the statue of Mother Mary.
Madelyn, the arts student leader, said she made 100 calico poppies attached to floral wire and purchased 1000 poppies from the Cleveland RSL to represent about 1100 students at Carmel College.
“The artwork is a three-dimensional piece, which I believe transformed the area and hopefully surprised and engaged the college community as they entered past the library to go to their classes,” Madelyn said.
“I wanted to salute the memory of those Australian and New Zealanders who sacrificed their health, strength and lives that we might live in a free country.
“I researched the poppy and found out that it flowers in Turkey in early spring – as it did in April 1915 when the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli.”
Madelyn said her inspiration was Poppy Valley south of Anzac beach with its brilliant red poppies.
“I draped the statue of Mary in black and red poppy fabric and had her looking over the art piece as Mother Mary sees the sacrifice our soldiers made.”
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Sheldon College
NURSE and former chief executive of St Andrew Hospital Pixie Annat spoke at the Sheldon College Anzac Day service about nurses working across the world during conflicts.
A biography has been written about Ms Annat, who is in her eighties, and describes her work in post-war Australia.
She was inspired by her mother’s wartime nursing career.
Sappers from Enoggera Barracks and their bomb squad dogs lead the processional at the start of the service.
The school recognised family members who had served with a media presentation in the foyer of the Sheldon Event Centre.
A school spokesperson said Sheldon College principal Lyn Bishop encouraged the audience to remember the bravery of the Anzacs and to seek world peace to ensure the dark days of war are not experienced again.
“Dr Bishop also recounted a personal story of Charlie Sinclair, a prisoner of war on the Burma Railway, who came to live with her family in Australia after the war until his death at 65 from war-related illnesses,” the spokesperson said.
Year 5 student Luka Wegner, accompanied by his grandmother Glenda Crew, spoke about his great-grandfather Kenneth Hayes who served as an ambulance driver in the Middle East in World War II.
“Luka went on to tell the story of how his great-grandfather’s ship was captured as it turned back to Australia and of the terrible time that ensued in the prisoner of war camp building the Burma Railway,” the spokesperson said.
“The diary of his time as a POW is in the Canberra War Memorial along with his jap happy, or Japanese issued loin cloth, and dixie, or army camp kettle.
There were also performances by Sheldon College vocal ensembles and the concert band.