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Edenhope College
Staff/Student Leader School Tours
Please feel free to call Edenhope College anytime for a school tour. One of our staff members (myself included), or student leaders will take you for the tour and answer questions you may have as you go around. We are currently taking enrolments for our 2025 Foundation class and if you haven’t decided where to send your child, please take me up on a tour, a cuppa and a chat after.
The White Mouse
What an incredible opportunity we were given last Friday. Earlier in the week I received a call from a group of women who were training to ride across Europe to retrace the steps of the most decorated woman in World War 2, - Nancy Wake. Students from Year 5 to Year 10 were given a talk on Nancy by 5 ex-service women who were in the area training for their Europe ride. I’ll put an small article below to explain her heroics and bravery. It makes an interesting short read and you can follow the link provided to read more about her.
Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake (1912–2011), aka 'Madame Andrée' and codenamed 'White Mouse' and 'Witch', was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II. She is famed for her courageous undercover activities in occupied France from 1940 to 1943, first as a courier of a French Resistance network and later with an escape network until it was betrayed. In December 1943 she left France and reached Britain where she joined the British Special Operations Executive, working with the Maquis resistance fighters from 1944 to 1945.
Having earlier witnessed the brutality of the Nazi regime as a journalist, Wake joined the French Resistance in 1940 and risked her life in a network helping Jewish people and Allied servicemen to escape. Wake's network was very successful, and the Gestapo codenamed her 'White Mouse'. She was ordered to flee France in 1943 when the network was betrayed. Her husband, French industrialist Henri Fiocca, remained behind. He was killed by the Gestapo.
Parachuted back into France in April 1944, Wake helped organise and fought alongside the Maquis resistance fighters before and after the D-day invasion. Using the alias 'Madame Andrée' and the codename 'Witch', she participated in the sabotage of German installations, organised parachute supply drops and maintained radio contact with the Special Operations Executive. When the radio codes were lost, Wake cycled about 500 kilometres in 72 hours to organise replacement codes.
Youth Driver Awareness Program
Please see attached an opportunity for local youth to partake in a driver awareness program. The Harrow Bush Nursing Centre is providing a great opportunity for our youth on the 13th and 14th of July.
Trevor McClure
Principal