ANZAC Day Commemoration Activities ANZAC Reflection Templates

Eight engaging, thoughful ANZAC Day activities! Give your students the opportunity to commemorate and reflect on the significance of ANZAC Day.

Your students can reflect, learn and focus on symbols, traditions and ANZAC legends while making connections to their own worlds.

Reflection Activities Included:

As I sit and Reflect on ANZAC Day– A template for your students to summarise the significance and importance of ANZAC Day each year. You can leave it open for them to simply share their thoughts and emotions of prompt them to record what they consider important about ANZAC Day and what they might think about during a minute’s silence.

My Gratitude Poppy– You can discuss the significance of poppies as a symbol of remembrance. Ask your students to record the things they are grateful for in the world that has been possible because we live in a free country. You might choose discuss what a free country means.

Peaceful Poppies– You can use this template to have a discussion about World Peace and what it actually means. Students can write or draw their responses.

The Dawn Service – Your students can reflect on what they have experienced or what they know of a Dawn Service. You can show them Behind The News segments about the Dawn Service if they don’t have the prior knowledge or to engage.

The Future is in Our Hands– Students can list all the ways they think will help world peace – reminding students that it begins with small acts of kindness!

Peace in Your World– Ask your students to illustrate different ways that we can achieve peace in our world. Kindness, acceptance, respect etc.

To the ANZAC of Yesterday and the ANZAC of Today– You can discuss with your class there are ANZAC soldiers serving today and there were many soldiers throughout all the different wars and other humanitarian crises who served for our country. Ask your students to record what they might say to a soldier from the past or from today if they met them.

World Peace– Students can record the different senses of world peace. This might pair well with an image of war to juxtapose what is not peaceful (depending on age appropriateness) Consider war, as well as humanitarian crises which today’s soldiers help with e.g. civil wars, famine, natural disasters.