One teacher and two students will take part in study tours in Europe and Canberra respectively. 

History and Indonesian teacher Brendan Bawden is one of two teachers chaperoning 12 students who won places on the Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize study tour to Lemnos, Gallipoli, Belgium and France. 

“To travel with some experts who are running the tour, it will be a great opportunity to hear from them personally,” he said. 

“I love teaching (World War I history) to the kids.” 

The 16-day tour will leave on March 28. 

Mr Bawden said his experience taking students overseas helped his claim to be one of the two teachers on the trip, which will include historians and state government representatives. 

Year 11 students Giarn Carroll and Brooke Hutchinson were regional finalists for the prize, and will be taken to Canberra to look at the Australian War Memorial and participate in a wider tour of the capital. 

Brooke said her entry had reflected on how the Anzac spirit still existed in Australia. 

“We see it in the bushfires, for example, with the CFA and their selfless work,” she said. 

Giarn’s poem on the gulf between the perception and reality of war – through a family’s story – also got her the nod for the tour.