This is our shared history, spanning over two years already...

What an excellent visit to Longueval today we've had today

Nga Tawa Diocesan School project gains huge momentum with Principal support

It all started in November 2013...

De retour de leur périple en Nouvelle-Zélande, les collégiens de Conty ont réalisé une vidéo afin de préparer la venue de leurs correspondants néo-zélandais prévue en avril 2016 pour l’ANZAC Day.

Nga Tawa students are part of the Shared Histories project between France and New Zealand.
It has been set up to commemorate World War 1 from beginning to end. Our two schools, Nga Tawa Diocesan School in Marton and College Jules Ferry in Conty, have chosen War Horses as our project and we have been exchanging information on the role of the horse during the war. 
There has been a special focus on Bess, who survived four years of war and is now buried just out of Bulls. We visited her grave...

Bonjour tout le monde! The project between Nga Diocesan School in Marton, NZ, and the College Jules Ferry in Conty, France, is going well.

So far my pupils have all written letters to prospective penpals and are currently awaiting responses. My senior pupils and I have visited the memorial in Bulls to Bess, the only horse to return to NZ after 4 years of war. We made a film of our visit and sent it to Conty. On the same day we went to the Army Museum in Waiouru where there was a fascinating...