Gallipoli Student Competition
Winning essays
- Conor Donohue of Tawa College in Wellington.
Conor has a family connection to Bright Williams, New Zealand’s last First World War veteran. Conor’s entry includes extracts from Bright Williams diaries and letters home, then a discussion of the role of the memory of the war and service in subsequent conflicts that permeates Conor’s family. This includes the story of how Conor became aware of the diary’s existence. The theme is ‘last man standing’, and how the spirit of Anzac is evident in a range of features of contemporary New Zealand life. Conor Donohue essay [pdf file 7Mb] - Katherine Bruce (Waimea College, Nelson)
Katherine has prepared a ‘publication’. ‘Gallipoli magazine’ (issue 1, February 2010). It includes an editorial, ‘articles’ on the background to Gallipoli, the impact on women, a discussion of the long-term effects of Gallipoli, and interviews with fellow students on the role of Anzac Day. Katherine Bruce Gallipoli Magazine [pdf file 570kb] - Samuel Hogg (St Paul’s Collegiate, Hamilton)
Samuel created a website focussed on the Gallipoli campaign. www.anzac.gravel.co.nz - Poetry [pdf file 40kb] by
Thandiwe Parker’s (Marlborough Girls College, Blenheim)
Kathryn Mitchener (Mercury Bay Area School, Whitianga)
Bronwyn James’ (Westlake Girls High School, Auckland)
Denyce Ali’itasi Su’a (Marist College, Auckland) - Essays [pdf file202 kb] by
Samuel Vincent (Sancta Maria College, Auckland)
Keepa Hipango (Wanganui Collegiate School, Wanganui )
Daniel Garry (Dunstan High School, Alexandra)
Zoe Russell (Morrinsville College, Morrinsville)
Christian McSweeney-Novak (Francis Douglas Memorial College, New Plymouth) - Diaries [pdf file 260 kb] by
Holly Hunter (ACG Strathallan College, Auckland)
Ryan Loeffen-Gallagher (Christs College, Christchurch)
Alana Stretton (Strathallan College, Auckland) - Art Work [pdf file 120 kb]
Sarah Wild (James Hargest College, Invercargill)
Laura Pedofsky (St Hilda’s Collegiate School, Dunedin)
Samantha Marshall (Kaitaia College, Kaitaia) - Jessica Pullar (Villa Maria College, Christchurch) [pdf file 120 kb]
Jessica has prepared a plan for a museum display on the topic. - Song [pdf file 20 kb]
Sherry Pomare (Te Kura Taumata o Panguru) has composed a waiata.
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Topic
The competition is open to year 13 students within New Zealand.
To enter students need to submit an entry on the following theme:
‘Using Gallipoli as a case study, illustrate the impact of World War I on New Zealand Society’
Entries can be presentations in the form of:
- A Short film
- Web features
- Artistic representations
- Written format essay, diary, letters
- Music
- Poetry
This page was last reviewed
20 April, 2011
and is current.