Echuca College held the first of many services honouring the ANZACs this week, with its own school ceremony on Thursday morning.
The ceremony was led by the school captains who took turns to speak about the significance of Anzac Day.
Echuca College school captains Lotti Waterson, Chloe Campbell, Zali Newman and Malik Day-Kennedy led the ANZAC ceremony.
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Year 11 student Jane Fish, one of four recipients of the Colin Sinclair Scholarship, also spoke about her future journey to the Kokoda Track.
The Catafalque party, made up of seven students, assembled, before the captains shared the origins of the Ode of Remembrance.
The ode was recited, followed by The Last Post, before a period of the silence was observed and The Rouse.
Student Sarah Mackenzie-Ross sang the national anthem during the ceremony.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
Sarah Mackenzie-Ross sang the national anthem before the Catafalque Party conducted its closing procession.
Variations of the same ceremony will be repeated throughout Echuca-Moama as Anzac Day services take place on Friday.
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