The Logo competition for our poppelicot wiki finished.

We used a google form to vote (in French for the NZ students and in English for the French students to combine design with language acquisition). It worked really well at this level (year 8 are complete beginners in New Zealand), and all students have improved their reading comprehension skills heaps. They confidently ticked boxes to express their likes and dislikes and explained their choices. Repetition is always a successful tool in...

On the 24th of June the students visited the Armoury at the Auckland War Memorial Museum as part of our project.  They were there to research the journey of their allocated soldier.  Each student has a soldier from the Auckland area - either Infantry Regiment or Armoured Rifles - who left NZ for France in 1916.  All of these soldiers died either in the Battle of Broodseinde or at Cambrai.  They are all buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery.

We spent the day reading and photographing information from the...