The present day views of this building known as the ‘Ayşe Mayda house’. The school was opened in 1920, initially for Italian orphans that were at the French orphanage of Kula, during the WWI. This building in Göztepe, was run by the Sisters of Charity Catholic Order - Filles de la Charité (information derived from the booklet printed on the occassion of the 50th year in Izmir of the Ivrea Sisters).

This school circa 1927, which had two nuns as Italian teachers (Suor Tommasina and Suor Maddalena), a French teacher and a Turkish one. Unusual for its time, it was a mixed school. Middle back Turkish teacher, left and on the bottom picture, the French teacher (Demoiselle Temenotti she was Italian).

This school circa 1930, looking down the back garden. The school closed down for good around 1934 with the law banning foreign education at primary level to Turkish citizens.