Virginia, Maidenhead Heritage Centre's Education Officer, planned lots of exciting activities for Year 3 to have a go at and there were plenty of real museum objects and documents to have a look at up close!
Mr Edmond's class were already very knowledgeable about WWI and they were able to tell us all about the different countries involved and how the war started. At the heritage centre, they learnt a bit more about what was happening on the home front and a little bit more about what things were like in their local area.
They looked at postcards, ration books and menus and thought about what it would have been like to be a child during WWI. Using their imaginations, the class wrote postcards to family members and friends who would of been fighting at the front. They described what they would have felt, seen, heard and what games they would have played and what they would have eaten.
After hearing one of Maidenhead Heritage Centre's knowledgeable volunteers talk about life in the trenches and the different medals a soldier could receive, the class then had a go at creating their own clay medal!
During WWI there was a convalescent home in Cookham Dean. 'Moor Hall' was a stately home built before the Victorian period which was owned by Francis Devereux Lambert. He gave up his house in 1914 to be a hospital where patients could recover from injuries in wartime.
Year 3 looked at photographs of soldiers and nurses from 'Moor Hall' and then imagined what it would have been like to be a nurse during WWI and practiced how to bandage injuries.
Here's what Year 3 had to say about their visit..
"I enjoyed making
poppies, writing a postcard and most of all I liked making a medal out of
clay. Thank you!"
"I learnt that in the
war there was a hospital in Cookham Dean."
"I learnt they used
tokens to get food."
"I learnt more about
rations and medals."
"I enjoyed writing my
postcard."
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