Remuera Library Exhibition - from June 17 2015 - Auckland, NZ
"The Battle of Conscience" - La Bataille de la Conscience
Students from Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in Auckland, NZ and Lycée Professionnel Jean Macé, Chauny, France have worked together on a joint ambitious project to mark the anniversary of the First World War within the Shared Histories framework. The students researched the pacifist objection to war and those New Zealanders and French soldiers who deserted or...
Baradene College students have handed in our final work that is linked to the Shared Histories Project. We had to individually make up websites about our research that showed our understanding of the topics we researched. Our focus was to present key ideas on our topic that were then explained. We had to focus on the impact on people and the significance to New Zealanders. This work connected the project to the NCEA Assessment we are doing for Level 3. Our websites were for History AS 3.2...
Baradene College of the Sacred Heart students have completed individual research associated with the project they have worked on for the Shared Histories partnership. Having published a book and held the exhibition of their posters, they focused on one aspect of the project more intensely and researched further to produce their own individual work for their NCEA qualification - Achievement Standard History 91434 v.1: Research an historical event or place of significance to New Zealanders, using...
We have posted our book "to many libraries in New Zealand and Australia. The photos shoe the books in envelopes ready to be sent. The libraries included public libraries and university libraries.
Title: “La Bataille de la Conscience” [The Battle of Conscience]
Authors: Students from Baradene College of the Sacred Heart, Auckland, New Zealand and Lycée Professionnel Jean Macé, Chauny, France
Editors: Erika Bleriot, Brent Coutts, Sylvain Leduc, Lucy Stone
ISBN 978-0-473-31621-1
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The village of Craonne is on the Californie plateau which was the site of bloody fighting on 16 April 1917 during Nivelle's failed 1917 Offensives. It was these disastrous offensives that pushed the French Army over the edge and led to the 1917 Mutiny. The village was immortalised in the song called La Chanson de Craonne (English: The Song of Craonne). This song was sung by the 68 divisions of French soldiers (out of 110 French Army divisions) who mutinied. The song was prohibited in France...
Lucy and Rosie stand with the posters they created for the exhibition. Their topic was the Wanganui Detention Barracks where objectors were brutally punished. Today we hung the exhibition in Chauny, France.
Memorial to Victor Spencer at the Ypres Museum in the Cloth Hall. The carved box contains the pardon from the New Zealand government.
The Baradene College students placed a wreath on the grave of a New Zealand soldier named John King in a cemetery in northern France. He was executed because he deserted. He was the first New Zealand soldier to be executed during WWI.
We visited the execution post in Pomeringe and then we went to the cemetery and found the graves of the soldiers who had been shot at dawn. This included a 17 year old Jamaican.
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