The Trenches are much closer than you think!
Let Anglia take your students to the front line without taking them abroad. This fully-guided tour, delivered in conjunction with our friends at Khaki Devil and the Great War Huts, has been designed specifically to enable your students to develop a deeper understanding of the events, experience and legacy of the First World War.
The tour includes:
- A visit to restored, original First World War buildings - the ideal environment to learn about the period and with plenty of opportunities to try on the kit and handle the weapons
- A chance to explore a large, reconstructed trench system, originally built for film and television work, and used by productions as varied as the film adaptations of 'Journey’s End' and 'Private Peaceful'
- A guided tour of a local cemetery which contains a number of Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials from the First World War
The tour can cover themes including:
- Recruitment and training of the British Army
- How did uniforms and equipment develop during the war?
- Trench construction and trench warfare
- What was life really like for a soldier in the First World War?
- Illness, injuries and treatment on the Western Front
- The changing nature of warfare
- The impact & legacy of the First World War
For those schools teaching courses on treatment and care of the wounded on the Western Front, the treatment and care of the wounded British Sector of the Western Front 1914-1918.
Meeting exam board specifications. Our tour content is mapped against the major examination board specifications for KS3 to KS5 students.
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