We were very lucky to be able to borrow a WW1 'Museum in a box' resource from the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield. It included soldiers' trench equipment, medals, photographs and newspapers from the time. The pupils were fascinated by the...
We were very lucky to be able ...
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I had the pleasure of spending two afternoons working with a wonderful group of Year 7 pupils from The Mirfield Free Grammar and Sixth Form. They enjoyed exploring some postcards from the collection and they were surprised to learn that...
I had the pleasure of spending...
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Rats Alley is our reading corner in the gallery. Scrapbooks full of images and writing created by children working with Helen and Suzanne are guarded by our two trench rats! It's incredible how the children have responded to the postcards...
Rats Alley is our reading corn...
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It was a pleasure to spend three days with the very enthusiastic Year 5 pupils at Battyeford Primary School. Some of the pupils had managed to research their own family connections to WW1 and they shared their fascinating findings with...
It was a pleasure to spend thr...
Read MoreThe first day of the battle of the Somme was 100 years ago this Friday the 1st of July. Have a look at this very short film by the Imperial War Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcihh_Zaxl4...
The first day of the battle of...
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Some great writing from a Battyeford Primary School pupil who took part in one of our creative writing workshops with Suzanne Hudson The pupil said: "I learned some brand new facts I never knew before like some soldiers got Trench foot...
Some great writing from a Batt...
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Lovely diary entry by a student on one of our creative writing workshops. She said: "I really enjoyed doing the diary entry because when i wrote it. It actually felt like i was in the WW1 writing to my family."...
Lovely diary entry b...
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Year 5 pupils at Battyeford Primary School enjoyed taking part in our creative writing workshops with Suzanne Hudson. The workshops involved children pretending to be soldiers themselves and writing to family or doing diary entries about their life in the...
Year 5 pupils at Battyeford Pr...
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Drypoint print produced on foil board at the "Introduction to Printmaking" course at West Yorkshire Print Workshop....
Drypoint print produced on foi...
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The 'Somme' became a byword for futile and indiscriminate slaughter. There were over 1 million casualties - 420,000 British, 195,000 French and 650,000 Germans. The youngest soldier was 14 and the oldest was 67....
The 'Somme' became a byword fo...
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