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KS3 Trip to HMS Belfast

Posted on 19th Oct

Over the last two weeks pupils have experienced two excellent trips to both the Imperial War Museum and HMS Belfast as part of their extended learning around the novel Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas by John Boyne and the Black History month theme of theme of war.

At the Imperial War Museum pupils got to learn more about the Holocaust and the whole of WW2 and at HMS Belfast pupils got to experience what life would have been like in the Navy during WW2. Throughout both trips it was fantastic for staff to see pupils applying their prior learning within different contexts and to see them using these opportunities to positively and maturely gain greater knowledge outside of the classroom. Pupils were very well behaved and pleased to have been given the opportunity to go on these trips.

Some comments from pupils included:

“Why did we not go her earlier?”

“I wonder how they survived here on the ship so long”

“Imagine having to climb all these steps when the ship was rocking at sea and the cannons were firing, and some of them would have had little training”

“I could never sleep in those hammocks – they must have been through so much”

“Now I have been to the museum I will be able to picture the scenes in the book so much better”

“We are so lucky to not have experienced this”

“They did this so we could live free ya know”

“This ship is very Claustrophobic”

“The museum is the best I have been to, it was like the war and the book we have read is alive”

 

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