By TBHS | Posted: Wednesday November 25, 2015
Students in 9BA will visit the South Canterbury Museum in December to attend a special presentation by historian and collector Malcolm Brady on the contribution animals have made in major conflicts around the world.
Earlier this year senior students (pictured) attended
presentations by Mr Brady that focused on World Wars 1 and 2. At the conclusion
of these individual classes, students were able to handle artefacts from these
periods in history.
9BA students are currently researching their own choices of animals that include horses, camels, dogs, pigeons, monkeys, mules, dolphins and even reindeer. As a result of research these students are learning that dogs became spies, pigeons carried messages, dolphins were trained to find underwater bombs, and even glow-worms helped to light soldiers’ maps at night and illuminate the trenches. Horses have been associated with warfare for thousands of years, 9BA are also including details of the horses that were sent from Timaru during World War 1 on their wall charts. The South Canterbury Museum has expressed an interest in displaying students’ work at the conclusion of this project .
