West Midlands, UK
Projects have been conducted with schools from Birmingham, Coventry, Oldbury and Stretton-on-Dunsmore.
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Teaching at Bristnall Hall Academy in 2018 I taught a number of lessons on Gallipoli at Bristnall Hall Academy, Oldbury, West Midlands, using materials adapted from the GA website but with a focus on the 9th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The lessons went very well and the behaviour of the students was excellent. They were very in...
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In 2022, using the good offices of an organisation called Artists in Schools, I commissioned an artist to work with students on a Gallipoli themed piece of artwork. The artist, Heidi, spent two days with two Year 5 classes designing and producing felt banners about Gallipoli. Henley Green is an excellent school serving an area of Coventry with m...
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Kingshurst Academy History Club The GA has good relations with the History Department at Kingshurst Academy in East Birmingham. The Academy also has an outdoor education centre that also includes a replica World War One trench. Two volunteers, David Vaux and Paul Jaques, who have been great supporters of my work, created this. They also assist w...
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The 29th Division Memorial project In 2019, as part of this project I spent a day with Year 6 at the Knightlow School, planning “mini memorials” to remember the 29th Division V.C winners. They also wrote poems about Gallipoli. The attitude of the pupils were excellent and they were particularly interested in the background to the monument, which...
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A superb day at Alleyne's Academy, Stone, Staffordshire. Groups of Year 10 students worked all day on a Gallipoli-themed mosaic. This will be mounted in the school for all to see. I was asked to do a assembly on the campaign with the whole of Year 10 (all 200 or so). The students were very receptive and their behaviour was superb. I then did a...