Objects of Substance- Christmas Creek Memorial Garden

Commemorating this area and educating each Grammar generation has taken different forms across the four decades. The ANZAC Day and Christmas Creek assembly is observed every year, but the emphasis of the address alternates between an ANZAC theme and the Christmas Creek tragedy. In recent years, the Student Council has also suggested ways to acknowledge this momentous event in Grammar’s history. Various wreaths have been placed on the stone after the Assembly ranging from native flowers to ribbons of House colours interspersed with royal blue (2016), all with the intent of drawing the new generations’ attention to this significant watershed in the School’s history. In 2015, the Student Council handed out rose petals to the students as they left assembly and then proceeded to the memorial to scatter these delicate petals as their tribute.

2015 Petal tribute.

2015 Student Council Rose petal tribute.