Remembrance Travel tours for schools and young people

age groups and
curriculum links
There is no set level of academic achievement
required by students to attend Remembrance
Travel Tours for Schools and Young People –
information, activities and discussion can all
be adapted to address the needs, levels and
abilities of everyone.
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key stage 2 primary schools
The one-day tours in the UK are all suitable for Key
Stage 2. They meet a number of the subject needs
including history, Citizenship, English and Art and
Design as well as supporting an understanding of
cultural heritage and commemorations.
key stage 3 11–14 years of age
The tours support the current Key Stage 3 curriculum.
History
The tours support the History Curriculum skills
requirements of:
• understanding causation and chronology
• recognising and interpreting evidence
• using testimony and primary sources
• exploring and examining issues of the past that
affected decision making
• handling artefacts
• being able to discuss the issues and facts of an
event and formulating arguments and conclusions
about those events.
The subject content of the tours will support studies
of the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust
and the Cold War.
Citizenship
A tour can support the Citizenship Curriculum
requirements for students to:
• participate in activities
• debate and discuss issues
• explore contemporary events
• recognise the events and issues that have created
the society in which they live
• learn about the different identities of those that
contributed to the events of the past
• learn about the diversity of British society and
how that has developed and been represented
in conflict and peacetime.
It can also raise questions about citizenship, patriotism,
inclusion and diversity. The history of Commonwealth
and Empire troops’ contribution in both World Wars
provides an important entry to exploring the racial and
ethnically mixed communities we live in today.
English
Explore different sources and styles of writing as well
as examining the work of war poets, writers and official
documents in the historic environment.
key stage 4 years 10 & 11, 15–16 years of age
GCSE
The tours will draw out the same skills as at Key
Stage 3 with additional emphasis on student
preparation for the trip to carry out their own
investigations.
Other specific aspects of the trip can be drawn out
after consultation and according to students’ studies
such as: the First and Second World Wars, the
Holocaust and the Cold War.
The Humanities
All of the tours contain cross-curricular information
and skills development. They are therefore
ideally suited as an opportunity to address a number
of subjects:
• historical facts and background
• examination of landscape and topology of
battlefields to support Geography
• discussion of moral and religious questions to
examine Religious Education
• reading poetry and other sources to improve and
develop literacy and literature understanding.
Post-16 age groUP
Remembrance Travel Tours for Schools and Young
People can be adapted to suit many aspects of the
post-16 curriculum, either as a standard historical
tour that examines the issues in greater depth for ‘A’
Level History students or as ‘Topic-led Trips’ such as:
Poetry and Conflict; exploring Peace settlements;
regeneration after conflict; or War Crimes and War
Crimes trials.
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