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News & IdeasSchool visits to the Imperial War Museum enhanced with two new learning centres
Learning spaces at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) are now open to complement the Second World War Galleries and The Holocaust Galleries, making the London attraction the first museum in the world to house both displays under the same roof.
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Case Studies
Stepping into the past on a Ypres Battlefield Trip
A small group of Key Stage 3 pupils from Ipswich High School travelled to Belgium to see the legacy left behind from the Great War on a battlefield trip.
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Major exhibition at Bletchley Park draws attention to personal wartime stories
Bletchley Park’s largest ever exhibition, The Intelligence Factory, has opened in a newly restored wartime building at the heart of the World War Two codebreaking site in Buckinghamshire, alongside a new gallery for temporary displays.
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Historic Dockyard Chatham welcomes children to experience ‘sensory journey’
Historic Dockyard Chatham has unveiled Diving Deep, a new exhibition documenting the archaeological recovery of HMS Invincible, the British Royal Navy ship which lay at the bottom of the Solent for over 260 years.
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Anglia Tours aims to bring history closer to home with new packages
Anglia Tours is offering a range of options to help support classroom-based teaching, taking pupils to range of historically significant places across the UK.
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National Memorial Arboretum launches free online VJ Day exhibition
The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire has launched a free online exhibition as part of a series of activities commemorating the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.
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Free school sessions at RAF Museums in London & Shropshire from September
The RAF Museum is offering free sessions, with activities to meet social distancing guidelines, until January 2021.
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Commonwealth War Graves Foundation launches online tribute to war heroine
Alongside the exhibition about a Second World War agent there are a series of downloadable resources to help students learning from home.
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UK Parliament’s curriculum-linked videos for VE Day anniversary
UK Parliament’s education team have released special videos and resource packs for students to use online.
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Features
5 trips to help pupils understand the significance of the Holocaust
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we’ve selected five school trips to help students understand how the Holocaust affected so many lives during World War Two.
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Case Studies
Tour guides bring history to life for pupils on Belgian battlefield trip
Brighton Hill Community School in Hampshire went on an insightful trip to some Belgium’s historic battlefields; Sophie Lamb from Rayburn Tours accompanied the school and reports back on the experience.
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Features
Trip ideas to commemorate 75 years since VE Day
With the 75th anniversary of ‘Victory in Europe Day’ in 2020, we look at memorable locations for pupils to visit as part of their World War Two history learning.
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Hundreds attend National Memorial Arboretum’s Youth Festival
The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire welcomed almost 1,000 young people from across the Midlands for its Remember Together Youth Festival 2019.
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New Commonwealth War Graves visitor centre to give schools a “fascinating insight”
School groups are being encouraged to visit the new Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Visitor Centre which has opened in the battlefields of Northern France.
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Case Studies
Case Study: Reliving World War Two history
We hear from London’s Lyceum School about reliving World War Two history on a trip to Milden Hall in Suffolk.
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Free school festival at National Memorial Arboretum will focus on World War Two
The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire has announced its Remember Together Youth Festival for KS3 and KS4 students, which will focus on World War Two.
