Information Book Just for Starters - Stockport Grammar School
Information Book Just for Starters - Stockport Grammar School
Information Book Just for Starters - Stockport Grammar School
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Does the department make any links with local history?<br />
In recent years, the First Years have visited Tatton Park, and the Third Years have been given<br />
talks by members of the armed services who fought in the Second World War. Pupils are<br />
also encouraged to investigate war memorials in their home town and to research relatives’<br />
experiences <strong>for</strong> the Era of World War Two unit.<br />
Are there any trips?<br />
The department has long organised a comprehensive educational trips programme. The<br />
department organises many trips and excursions, both at home and abroad. The First Years<br />
all complete assignments after their visit to Hartington Hall. The Second Years visit the<br />
Ironbridge Gorge museum in Shropshire.<br />
The Third and Fourth Years can participate in our annual four day trip to the First World<br />
War Battlefields of Belgium and France every October half term. We also organise a largescale<br />
trip every Easter either to Europe or the USA. At Easter in 2011 we organised a largescale<br />
trip to Berlin and Prague <strong>for</strong> members of the Fourth Year and above, and in 2012 we<br />
returned to the United States and visited Washington, Philadelphia and New York (this was<br />
a joint trip with the Art department).This trip will be repeated in 2014 and 2015, again with<br />
the Art department. In the summer of 2012 we visited southern Germany and again in<br />
the summer of 2013 we will be travelling with Middle <strong>School</strong> pupils to southern Germany<br />
and Austria, tracing the rise of the Nazi Party. Each trip has important historical and cultural<br />
significance. Participants are always guided by local historians and many places of interest<br />
are visited.<br />
HISTORY<br />
Are there any clubs or societies?<br />
A History Society has been <strong>for</strong>med primarily <strong>for</strong> younger historians. Pupils have the<br />
opportunity to work with artefacts borrowed from local museums and to hear from veterans<br />
of conflicts from the last century. We also provide the opportunity to listen to talks given by<br />
important historians.<br />
A pupil finds a memorial to a relative on the Battlefields trip.<br />
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