International Projects
This section show cases some of our educational school projects, in Ireland, Australia and Turkey. Would you like to be involved in future projects? If so please contact Ian Binnie, our Education Coordinator, at [email protected].
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We have been working with the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin and Kerry County Museum in Tralee, which ran several projects with schools. Irish troops were strongly represented at Gallipoli throughout the Campaign, at a time when republican feelings were running high at home. Today, nearly 100 years after gaining independence from Britain,...
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Students from Holy Spirit College in Bellambi, New South Wales, Australia travelled to Turkey from 29th June to 9th July 2015. Photo by Adam Fryday. The students followed the route the soldiers took. After landing at Anzac Cove they climbed the steep cliffs to Plugge’s Plateau and Lone Pine. Photo: Adam Fryday For their visit to Gallipoli...
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A group of students training to be history teachers worked on the idea of ‘Different Perspectives’, developing original and thought-provoking artwork which could be viewed from two angles. The students researched images related to Gallipoli and chose pictures which showed two different sides to a story, then cut them into strips and pasted them...
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Elif Aköz, a teacher at the Koç High School in Istanbul, contacted us to say that one of her students – İlayda Kabatepe – was the great-great granddaughter of an officer in the Turkish army who was killed at Gallipoli. She wanted to interview her grandfather about this and offered to translate the interview into English for us. The result went...
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‘Two Trenches, One Letter’ Students with their letters. Photo: TED Mersin College In January 2015, TED Mersin College set up a project to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign in an unusual way: the students (aged 12-13) wrote letters to the families of Allied soldiers killed at Gallipoli, and to Lieutenant Ibrahim Naci, who die...