July 2016 will mark 100 years since the Battles of Fromelles and Pozi
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Julia, Nathalie and Tim to visit schools on the Western Front in November
The ACSLP partners secondary schools in Australia with schools along or near the Australian Remembrance Trail in Belgium and France to encourage students to share stories, memorabilia and commemorative activities about the impact of war upon their own local communities. These school and community resources will then be shared on the Department of Veterans’ Anzac Portal as well the ACSLP website.
During November 2015 Ryebuck Media
Atheneum Pottelberg planning to visit West Australian partner school in 2016
During the school year 2014-2015 the students of our third and fourth year Modern Languages worked on the topic of the First World War. The project was part of the ANZAC Centenary School Link Program. The students conducted several assignments to realise the impact of the War on our region then and now.
During this project we were able to meet the Australian students, teachers and parents from our partner school
Aussies to build Pozieres village school
The New South Wales Education Department has launched the Pozieres Franco-Australian School Project to raise money to build a new school at Pozieres. It will be dedicated on July 23 2016 to commemorate the centenary of this battle in which some 6800 Australians were killed in what became a vital strategic victory.
Tony Wright, National Affairs editor of The Age newspaper reports:
Aussies to build Pozieres school
Collie SHS, Atheneum Pottelberg and Beranger College share the emotions of the Western Front
The 2015 tour has been a wonderful success. I am immensely proud of all of our students, who have acted at all times as wonderful ambassadors of our school, town and Australia.
I have had many comments from strangers of many different nationalities at how polite, helpful and mature our students have been, throughout the tour and in every country. We have made new friends with the students in Atheneum Pottelberg, Belgium and Beranger College in Perone, France and been hosted by the mayor of Perone.
Everybody has learnt a tremendous amount about the First World War, at times perhaps, more than we felt comfortable with for it was such an awful struggle on a scale that can really only be appreciated by walking the battlefields and seeing the countless graves that are tended so lovingly by the countries in which they lie. (Ed Croft)
You can read more about Collie SHS’s Western Front Tour on their school blog:
http://2015anzactour.blogspot.com.au/
World War 1 Heritage Conference
Our latest partner Institut Geneche invites all schools to attend the World War 1 Heritage Conference organised for 9-13th November 2015. The conference is specially relevant to international students aged 15 to 18 and their enthusiastic teachers who would like to make an original presentation about WW1 in your country. So far schools from Slovenia, Russia, Japan and Germany have agreed to participate. For more details contact:
Julien MAGNIER
Professeur d’Histoire G
Connecting with the ANZAC Centenary
What do the people and events of 100 years ago, and their commemoration today, have to do with young people now?
This unit looks at connections that you can make to the people and events of 100 years ago, and how you can commemorate these through individual Memorabilia, a local RSL and the men, women, institutions and memorials in your own community.
Here is a simple
Local Launch of the Centenary School Link Program
The moving images of unmarked graves resonated with the packed hall at Heywood and District Secondary College with the screening of the film
Julia and Tim visit schools on the Western Front
The success of our November trip to France and Belgium on behalf of Australia