2002 Lincolnshire - Year 9 - Life in the trenches

“ Whole year group seminar on the life and work of a 1st World War Infantryman. An excellent spellbinding experience that involves and challenges – developing a constant stream of reflective opportunities that links the key moral questions to social and cultural contacts.

Pupil response was tangible – fear and exhilaration are followed by knowledge and understanding developed in a real context. The numeracy and physics of the nature of war is linked with the deployment of logistics in an economic context that sets the issue as a real human experience.

 

Pupils were in the palm of his hand, they were treated to an excellent historical experience that improves significantly pupils knowledge, understanding and interest. Excellent teaching and learning is raising standards.

1994 Bedfordshire - year 8 - Life in trenches

 

“...In Key Stage 3, for example, all of Year 8 had the opportunity to involve themselves in a presentation on the Great War by a visiting speaker who, dressed in a British soldier’s uniform, spoke with expertise on the First World War and brought hundreds of artefacts for pupils to handle and discuss. This was a memorable learning experience which contributed to the standards of achievement of the Year 8 pupils.”

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Reports on history presentations in schools and equally applicable to the nature and content of a battlefield tour

2006 Bedfordshire - Year 4/5 - Life on the Home Front

 

“They are enthusiastic and interested in lessons. This was particularly reflected in the attitudes and interest shown by Years 3 and 4 during a Second World War theme day”.