Class Visits

5JB and half of 5TR travelled to Media City in Manchester to visit the incredibly interesting Imperial War Museum.

As part of our First World War unit of History, we learnt first-hand through many artefacts, pictures, accounts from the time, the incredible ‘Big Pictures’ and the wonderful staff at the venue! We travelled the timeline of the First World War, taking in the incredible uniforms, weapons and pictures alongside some very interesting smells from the trenches and a massive sea mine! We progressed through the time between the wars to see how the Second World War started and then through the timeline of that monumental piece of history ready for our learning in Year 6.

We also experienced the museum’s current new exhibition – spies, lies and deception – and learnt all about key moments from both World Wars including D-Day and Operation Mincemeat. We were set a mission to find out about 5 spies, learn their secrets and crack the code to earn a prize and WE SMASHED IT!

We all had a fantastic time learning about these sobering but very interesting periods of history!