Great War Recipe Book is now printed!
Yeah! It took almost three years, three Year 11 French classes, a trip to France, a bunch of teachers involved (History, French, Art, Food technology) and two student designers, and now it's here!
Thanks to the generous funding we received from the Shared Histories Programme, we could print 120 recipe books.
It's in colour, it's in French and English, and it contains some information about the historic background as well. Some of these books will shortly make their way to France. Others will...
Teenagers react and reflect post trip...
"Everything that I've ever learnt in class was suddenly so much more real"...
Project week "World War I" in Evreux
In the context of the Shared Histories programme, St Margaret's College had started a virtual letter exchange with the Lycée Senghor in Evreux.
Amiens and so much more: World War I history close-up
Travelling up from the beautiful southern areas and having visited a lot of Roman historic monuments and sites there,
En route et ... découverte de la Somme
On 3rd April nineteen year 11 and year 12 girls from St Margaret's College left Christchurch for a four-week French Tour.
It is happening!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
The board of trustees has agreed that I take a group of 19 students to France - despite terrorist attacks etc.. The preparations are in full throttle, and the girls are excited to finally meet some of their French partners. I have changed the itinerary to make a longer visit of the North of France possible, and so we will stay a couple of days in Amiens. Watch this space!
Le nouveau poppelicot est arrivé!
Salut tout le monde!
After a slow start in 2015 we are now back with new plans, new people and new partners: The exchange of fictitious letters has started with our first postcards. Our new partner for this project is the lycée Senghor in Etouvie, and we are excited to welcome Katrina and her team to the poppelicot project.
We continue to cooperate with the collège Etouvie in Amiens with whom we are still planning the recipe book. This is becoming a truly interdisciplinary project, and at St...
On échange en virtuel, mais on aime le courrier "escargot"!
Just in time before the end of Term 3, the gorgeous year 8 French girls at St Margaret's got busy crafting poppies for their friends in Amiens. And as you can see in the picture, I put the envelope in the wrong slot (also: spot the typos!), but I completely trust the NZ post services, and hope the poppies will arrive on time for Armistice Day. Luckily, there is still some time before November!
Shared Histories meets NCEA assessment: A successful first year!
This year I tied the project to some of my internal assessment at level 1, and chose to craft a 1.5 Writing Portfolio task around Shared Histories. In cooperation with our partner school in Amiens, my year 11 class set up an exchange of letters and other texts that the students from both countries posted on our wiki (one of the last texts written is attached to this post: a poster).
While the...
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Logo Design competition for poppelicot is on!
I just posted this on student notices and sent it to France for them to publish, just in time for la rentrée to get back into Active mode!
Hi students at St Margaret's College in Christchurch and Collège Étouvie in Amiens!
You know that our school takes part in the French - New Zealand history project "Shared Histoires" (Histoire partagée) which commemorates the centenary of World War I. In the context of this exciting 5 year project, a partnership between le collège Etouvie in Amiens and...
Le projet "Histoires partagées " dans l'enseignement de tous les jours
How can we integrate the project in our everyday teaching?
After receiving the attached collection of fictitious letters from soldiers to their loved ones and their replies, written by some of our exchange school's pupils (Troisième 5), I decided to use these letters for an integrated reading and writing exercise with my year 12 IB French class. Each student was paired up with their "relative" and read one of the letters. They then asked and answered some questions about the content of the...
échange de lettres
The year 11 and 3ème have long started to exchange letters from the perspective of a fictitious teenager who lived at the time of war in the respective countries. They all have to incorporate in their letters one or more male family members who enlisted in the army. The year 11 French class write these letters as part of their 1.5 writing portfolio for NCEA. Before starting, the students did some research about life in New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th century as well as learning some...
Cimetière militaire de Saint Sever à Rouen
St Margaret's IB French students found the grave of a young soldier from Canterbury on the Cimetière de Saint-Sever in Rouen. His name was R.H.I. Norton, he died on May 9th 1918.
The girls wore the poppies the students from the collège Etouvie in Amiens had made for them for ANZAC Day, and left them at the grave. The students were overwhelmed by the size of the cemetery which holds 11,436 commonwealth graves, 185 of which are New Zealanders. While the girls mainly looked for soldiers from...
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