We had a very memorable month in France and visited some of the major sites of the country, including the NZ war memorials, where we saw where some old boys of the school had fallen. It was a very moving and also insightful experience and i do not think that either staff or students will forget this in a hurry. This is the Facebook page of the tour, where there are pictures etc of all the great things we saw whilst in...
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Malheureusement Mai était un mois très occupe pour moi. J’ai eu beaucoup des activités de mon école et à cause de ça j’ai été très retard aven mon blog. Pardon à tous, et j’espère je suis plus de organise pour Juin !
Je veux un moment pour remercier le gentil peuple de ma communauté pour le support et la encouragement ils ont offert. En particulièrement je voudrais remercier La Cloche ; un café français de Wellington pour leur patronage. Ils ont été très généraux...
4th June
This evening I met a man named John MacNamara. His uncle Private Donald Wallace MacNamara, was killed in the Battle of the Somme, only 6 days before my great-great-grandfather James Livingston. Pte MacNamara has a burial at the Caterpillar a Valley Cemetary, where Livingston has his memorial. John read in the Manawatu Standard article about the Young Ambassadors Tour, that we will be visiting the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery during the trip. He contacted me through my school, and...
May was a very busy month for me, so unfortunately I haven’t been able to devote much time to developing my inquiry. However, at the end of the month I was very lucky to be able to meet up with Emma, Ailish and Pascale for lunch. It was really great to catch up with Emma and Ailish again, and so nice to meet Pascale face to face! I also had a Skype call with Ruth; it was lovely to be able to meet her before we all get together on the 12th of June. Speaking of which, not long until all of us...
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...
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Who is this man? The dusty kaki coloured shirt framing a tanned face and the blanched periwinkle blue of the sky in behind the camel brown tent all suggest a war. But, which one? Perhaps it doesn’t matter as much as we might think...
This man is novelist, Tim O’Brien, during his service in Vietnam, lasting from 1969-70. I am currently in the midst of reading his most critically acclaimed novel, “The Things They Carried,” which, like this photograph, presents an aspect of...
We studied in class, two propaganda posters issued by the french government ( the first poster) and one by the New Zealand government.
The first picture is adressed to the french civilians to give their money for the french army. The second picture is aimed at men to induce them to join the army because thanks to the war they will discover the world.
The french poster is an economical propaganda whereas the New Zealander poster aimed at men to enter the army making them believe it is an...
Mr Coutts from Baradene College in Auckland visited France for two weeks to see the school we are partnered with in Chauny. He met five classes of students at Lycée Professionnel Gay Lussac and met with the teachers there to plan the project. He said it was a really great trip and he came back with photos to show us. The photos (above) are from his visit. Mr Coutts also looked at many places for us to visit next year when we will travel to France. We hope some of the students at Gay Lussac will...
Florian and Skander tell you about their research on Maoris in WWI and more especially on their relationship with "Pakehas" and the difference in the type of missions they had.
Yasmine and Kawtar tel you about their research work on living conditions in the trenches
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