Legacy

Project Summary

The school made poppies out of clay, felt and rice paper, created water colour paintings, made remembrance postcards and took part in the local remembrance service at St Thomas' Church.

Community Reach

2000

Additional information

https://www.southwigston.leics.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The students produced an amazing Remembrance assembly which was delivered to all staff and students.

Community Reach

800

Additional information

https://www.henry-cort.hants.sch.uk/

Project Summary

Centenary activities before the tour included a two Act play named ‘the Pals, written by a French teacher at the school and performed by numerous Yr 10 and 11 students for audiences far and wide. Indeed, they sold out 250 seats each night in the school hall! The school is heavily linked with the remembrance ceremonies in Horsforth, including wreath laying. The students who went on the tour are also visiting each year 9 class to deliver a presentation on their trip.

Community Reach

750

Additional information

www.horsforthschool.org/

Project Summary

Students planned and carried out an assembly to each house at the school to mark remembrance commemorations in November. The school then marked Remembrance Sunday through attending a Royal British Legion organised remembrance march and service.

Community Reach

1100

Additional information

https://www.kirkbalkacademy.org/

Project Summary

The students devised and ran a commemorative evening in association with the ‘Last post sound of the century’ charity.  They presented this to parents and member of the local community including members of the local Royal British legion. Students presented drama based on First World War poetry and the places they had visited on the battlefields tours; The school orchestra and choir also performed a range of First World War songs. The students also created a large willow horse with a local artist to commemorate the animals involved in the First World War.

Community Reach

120

Additional information

https://www.maidenbeech.net

Project Summary

The students led assemblies for 650 of their peers. Then, in Research Club, they used their knowledge of the Lives of the First World War Imperial War Museum website, along with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, a genealogy website and a parish historian, to guide younger historians researching their family members or other local soldiers. This fed into a Year 9 diary writing activity. A ‘Memory Tree’ was created in the school garden, containing images and information about the soldiers. The school included some related artwork and a choir performance in their annual Arts Evening.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

https://www.helsbyhigh.org.uk

Project Summary

The students have addressed assemblies for children in other year groups.

Community Reach

280

Additional information

www.southgate.enfield.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The students will lead presentations in their own school and for two primary schools with whom Furrowfield is federated. Photographs will be displayed electronically at Parents Evenings.A permanent display will be mounted in the history department and a further display will be established in a local church. A short article is to be published online in the local Evening Chronicle newspaper; information will also be published on the school website. It is also proposed to turn a piece of underused land at the front of the building into a memorial garden, hopefully in conjunction with The Walking Wounded charity on board.  Information  to be put in school website.

Community Reach

383380

Additional information

http://www.furrowfieldschool.co.uk/

Project Summary

Students created a display outside of the History Room. Every child walked past the display. The display was featured during Year 9 History lessons. During its production the boys educated Year 7 History Club members on the First World War.

Community Reach

400

Additional information

www.caistoryarboroughacademy.org.uk/

Project Summary

The students used their battlefields tour to pay tribute to local soldiers - Archibald Bowell and Gerald Trolove - and undertake research which has had a profound effect upon teh local community of Evington. They shared this research with feeder primary schools.

Community Reach

220

Additional information

http://www.st-pauls.leicester.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The two students researched letters and diaries of First World War personnel from around the world and displayed these in the History corridor. They also wrote a piece for the school newsletter about their trip and thoughts on commemoration. The school was given one of the poppies from the Tower of London which is included in the display.

Community Reach

3000

Additional information

www.cedarsupper.org.uk/

Project Summary

The Romford Recorder published an article including the students’ experiences on tour.

Community Reach

30000

Additional information

http://www.broomfield.enfield.sch.uk

Project Summary

The students led an assembly and created a school display upon their return to school. A photography project (focusing on big and small,  the huge scale of the conflict and also the impact on individual, personal stories) was initiated and a feedback session provided to a local Girls Association.

Community Reach

250

Additional information

www.nottinghamfreeschool.co.uk/

Project Summary

The school held 3 remembrance ceremonies since the tour, the first by the students who went, the second was a play acted out by them, and this year our Class 11 researched and did posters on the 7 soldiers listed on our war memorial.  These were used by the local village in their centenary celebrations and is currently on display in the local church.

Additional information

www.steineracademyhereford.eu

Project Summary

The students led year assemblies about their tour. Annual activity for high performing students includes research on local casualties - using Commonwealth War Graves Commission and census records.

Community Reach

250

Additional information

www.valleygardensmiddle.org

Project Summary

The students researched local soldiers and their work was featured in 'Banbury Cake'.

Community Reach

4828

Additional information

http://www.banburycake.co.uk/news/11859663.Visit_to_the_front_opens_children_s_hearts_and_minds/?ref=rss

Project Summary

The Yorkshire Evening Post featured Horbury Academy visits to the battlefield. The article focused on the story of local nurse, Nellie Spindler, which grave was visited by the students at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium.

Community Reach

26038

Additional information

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/video-students-travel-to-belgium-to-pay-respects-to-ww1-nurse-with-remarkable-story-1-6861320?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Project Summary

A PowerPoint presentation about the trip and the research carried out will be delivered to 2 local primary schools (Years 5 and 6) in 2018 by the two students who participated in the tour.

Community Reach

150

Additional information

http://www.eggbuckland.org.uk

Project Summary

Queen Mary's Grammar School featured in a Sec Ed article covering the school's experience on their battlefield tour. The students laid plaques created at the school to commemorate former pupils who had died out on the Western Front.

Community Reach

36694

Additional information

http://www.sec-ed.co.uk/best-practice/first-world-war-centenary-lest-we-forget

Project Summary

The school contacted Burnley FC who agreed to work in partnership with them. They have opened a new World War One remembrance section to their memorial garden and the school has created an art piece which will remain on permanent display. It was unveiled during the remembrance Sunday service. Each leaf has been inscribed with the name of a First World War soldier who was associated with Burnley FC. The leaves were cut and inscribed on the school laser cutter and the tree was cut and welded at school with the help of the technology teachers.

Community Reach

300

Additional information

www.millfield.lancs.sch.uk

Project Summary

The project was based around Frederick Ernest Marriott. The school were able to contact his ancestors who have created an archive focusing on the history of the Marriott family. With the help of the volunteers at Cotesbach Hall Education Trust the school were then able to locate and analyse a number of documents regarding Fredrick in the archive. Using this information, the girls prepared and delivered a ten minute presentation to a group called the Local History Cafe. The project culminated with the girls writing an article about their experiences which was published in the local newspaper; The Harborough Mail.

Community Reach

8000

Additional information

www.lutterworthhigh.leics.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The students led primary school assemblies and a Remembrance Day ceremony in the school’s newly refurbished remembrance garden. This now contains a mosaic of the 36 alumni who died in the war featuring poppies and tiles with their photographs and information about them. The ceremony was attended by the local British Legion and representatives from each tutor group across the school.

Community Reach

1500

Additional information

http://bridgnorthendowed.co.uk/

Project Summary

Prior to the tour, the school undertook research on men from Tottenham who had volunteered to support the British war effort, through which they discovered George Lawson. He lived a few streets from the school and the location was known to the students. On tour, the students were able to locate George Lawson’s grave within Tyne Cot Cemetery.
On return from tour, ideas and information collected were compiled to devise the lyrics for a song. The song became known as ‘My mate George,’ which has since been professionally recorded and performed.

Community Reach

1800

Additional information

http://www.vale.haringey.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The students decided to share their experiences with the rest of the College through assemblies, radio broadcasts, and displays.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.honitoncollege.devon.sch.uk

Project Summary

The Bury Times have published an article about the students’ experiences on tour.

Community Reach

30000

Additional information

http://www.tottington.bury.sch.uk

Project Summary

Whilst on the battlefields tour the students researched the location of the 182 local boys’ memorials and filmed their findings for the BBC Schools Report Project. On return from their trip the students interviewed and spoke with a local historian and active participant of the Summerstown project; Geoff Simmons. Warren, who went on the trip, then met with the Granddaughter of one of the local boys they had researched, who had died during the war.

Community Reach

500

Additional information

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/31963523

Project Summary

The students completed a Bronze Arts Award qualification concentrating on First World War poetry, art and life at home. They then completed a Book Bench which was launched and widely publicised by Wild at Art across the city of Birmingham. The Bench was decorated by the students with poppies, poetry and diary entries. The final Bench was part of a citywide project and the student's bench was displayed at Millenium Point. The Bench is now displayed at the centre in pride of place in the school reception area.

Community Reach

5000

Project Summary

The students created a poppy field art project, held a Remembrance Day Service, created a Room of Remembrance on parents evening, and promoted their work via Facebook and School newsletter articles.

Community Reach

2189

Additional information

www.wargravehouse.com/

Project Summary

The school have published a detailed article about their Centenary Battlefields Tour on their school website. A temporary exhibition, ‘Soldiers of the Empire,’ was also held in the school foyer.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.camdengirls.camden.sch.uk

Project Summary

The school will be remembering local soldiers from the community of Irlam & Cadishead. The students will present their work to the Senior Leadership Team, governors and the wider community of Irlam & Cadishead, including committees and local primary schools.
 
Expected completion date: July 2017

Community Reach

110

Additional information

www.iccollege.org.uk/

Project Summary

The Nottingham Post published an article about the students’ experiences on tour in September 2014. The article included quotations from those travelling on the tour.

Community Reach

30000

Additional information

http://brackenfield.derbyshire.sch.uk

Project Summary

On returning to school students and staff led an assembly about their trip to honour a local hero, Thomas Horton, whom they had researched.  The students also led some transition work with local primary schools on their experiences in Belgium and France. They appeared in the school newsletter and local newspaper. They also helped to develop the schools Remembrance day display whereby every pupil wrote a message of thanks and remembrance to the fallen and also those that they had lost. The department held a ‘Big Write’ based around the First World War, with a lesson of that scheme of learning dedicated to the Battlefields The and Thomas Horton. 

Community Reach

100

Additional information

darlaston.graceacademy.org.uk/

Project Summary

The school have published a detailed article about their Centenary Battlefields Tour on their website.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.leedseastacademy.org.uk

Project Summary

The Independent featured an article about the schools battlefield tour. Amongst the many experiences featured was the tracing of local soldiers during the tour.

Community Reach

10523

Additional information

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/thousands-of-teenagers-to-visit-battlefields-of-the-first-world-war-in-new-government-scheme-9812343.html

Project Summary

The students led an assembly for Year 8 and developed a Battlefields Legacy 110 page on the Cowley school website.

Community Reach

1235

Additional information

www.cowley.st-helens.sch.uk/

Project Summary

Students pledged to take one step each for every soldier that died; approximately 4.5 million steps, and to engage 5x110 people in their task.  Students shared with their peers during assemblies, manned a stall at the school fair, spoke on local radio, and set up a Face Book page.  Companies, individuals, groups and other schools all ‘donated’ steps to the cause, resulting in over 23 million steps being taken, with contributions from as far afield as Canada and Australia. A ‘whole school’ Poppy Wave was created after visiting Fort Nelson to see the Tower Poppies on display.

Community Reach

30000

Additional information

http://www.henrytyndale.hants.sch.uk/

Project Summary

Students created an assembly about a local soldier and his experiences. This was delivered to students of the host school, then adapted for KS2 students and delivered at a local primary school. They also wrote an article relating their experience on the battlefields of the Somme that was featured in the host school’s termly newsletter published in the community.

Community Reach

1542

Project Summary

One student created a power point and presented this to four Year 7 History groups. Both students and their teacher were interviewed by the sixth-form editors of the school magazine and this was published as a double page spread. The magazine is sent to all school staff, students and parents.

Community Reach

1200

Project Summary

The students created a memorial service for the end of the Battle of the Somme for the fallen of the school parish and South Ribble. The Vice Lord Lieutenant and the Mayor were in attendance along with 200 other people. They have also created a memorial garden in the school grounds to raise awareness. They have written two articles about the project . These were published  in the Leyland Guardian and the Lancashire Evening Post. They have created a memorial video which has been placed on the school you tube channel and has currently been viewed 60 times. They have also received two letters from their local MP about their efforts with the project.

Community Reach

12000

Additional information

www.lsmchs.com/

Project Summary

The school held a Remembrance Day service for the entire school including a minutes silence and the playing of the Last Post on Remembrance Day and on teh anniversary of the 1st day of the Somme. The school had one assembly on the Somme and articles published on the school website. In the summer the school made wooden riffles etc and are having a one day off timetable to run a re-enactment of the Somme. There will be a display in the school about the trip and the re-enactment. In the evening in July two members of staff gave two public lectures on the Somme, and this year are going to do teh same to commemorate the events of 1017.

Community Reach

500

Additional information

https://www.trinity.nottingham.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The Northern Echo published an article which featured the schools' very special trip to the battlefields - especially their poignant visit to Neuve Chapelle to coincide with the 100th annivesary of that battle. Four divisions including the British Army fough here in March 1915.

Community Reach

332192

Additional information

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11841368.Pupils_to_mark_the_100th_anniversary_of_the_Battle_of_Neuve_Chapelle/?ref=rss

Project Summary

In March 2015, students from the York Independent State School Partnership and other schools around York took part in a battlefield tour. On their return home the schools organised a combined memorial service in York Minster and a public exhibition at the Castle Museum in the city to commemorate the centenary of 1916. This included making perfect handmade models of some of the battleships at Jutland, research into Zeppelin raids over York (2nd and 3rd May 1916), work at the York Archives with the local newspapers from 1916, piecing together the story of conscientious objectors, research into the Acomb memorial and a study of relevant editions of Rowntree Factory magazine, ‘The Cocoa Works.’

Community Reach

130200

Additional information

http://www.manorceacademy.org

Project Summary

The school will commemorate local soldiers within its own community and with local primary schools. It will use assemblies, honours boards and a series of lessons for the primary schools. Expected completion date: November 2017

Community Reach

110

Additional information

www.ashgreenschool.org.uk/

Project Summary

The school submitted a press release to local newspapers. This was published in the Tottenham Independent and online at This Local London. The school tweeted throughout the Battlefields Tour. Tweets can be read @woodsidehighschool and the students created a display in the main school dining hall. Details of the tour were published on the school website and updates were made reflecting Legacy 110 project developments. The students delivered an assembly to the rest of their Year Group and to whole school assemblies on Remembrance Day. They have also been invited into local primary schools to speak to Year 6 students.

Community Reach

5390

Additional information

http://www.woodsidehighschool.co.uk/News/WW1-Battlefields-Tour-to-Belgium-and-France/

Project Summary

The school have published a detailed article about their Centenary Battlefields Tour on their school website.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.studleyhighschool.org.uk

Project Summary

On 1 December 2014, History students at the school were delighted to receive MP and Minister for Communities, Stephen Williams, to discuss their First World War Centenary commemorations. The students who travelled on the tour reported to Minister Williams their experiences of the Battlefields and reflected how the war had affected the local community in the South West. A ‘pop up’ museum was created with school artefacts from the time including a report of a student’s outrage at being torpedoed by a German U-Boat and students returned to their primary schools to share what they had learnt from their experiences.

Community Reach

1200

Additional information

http://www.colstonsgirls.bristol.sch.uk/parents/families/contact-us/

Project Summary

The school have made a video of the trip which was shown in assembly. The students also made a display of the trip and have shown it to the whole school and also to the primary students who visited the school on transition day. On 14th July, the school held a Commonwelath Peace Day when every class will represent a country from the Commonwealth, and made a floating flower from that country. The event was attended by parents, two other Special schools and representatives from different faiths.

Community Reach

200

Additional information

http://www.lheath.net/

Project Summary

Pupils delivered whole school assemblies to 1000 others; stories appeared in the school newsletter; and design drawn up for a memorial peace garden; all pupils researched family relatives and shared what had been discovered with families, friends and staff; Ceramic poppies are now made each year, displayed in a variety of art exhibitions across Kent; the English department enter world war one inspired poetry into the Never Such Innocence competition and other poetry competitions. Some of these have been published in an anthology.

Community Reach

3000

Additional information

http://www.canterbury.kent.sch.uk

Project Summary

After the trip the two students planned and ran an assembly with their year group. Then alongside a group of 10 Year 12 students they participated in researching and creating accounts of how men from Streatham died during WW1. This project has now run for 3 consecutive years and the accounts can be found here at; http://www.btg.ac/pages/streatham-at-war

Some of these accounts have now been published by the local Streatham magazine this year to commemorate the ending of the First World War.

Community Reach

3000

Additional information

http://www.btg.ac

Project Summary

Students wrote a personal piece on the salient features of the visit which was used as a reading in the five Arminstace Assemblies.A report appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post which included an interview with one of the students at Tyne Cot (24/9/14).Following the assemblies two families got in contact with the college becasue they had relatives who were buried at Tyne Cot. Their names appeared on the pictures taken for the interview.
 http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/video-fallen-leeds-soldier-s-memory-revived-100-years-on-by-student-neighbour-1-6856434

Community Reach

28036

Additional information

www.notredamecoll.ac.uk/

Project Summary

Students from Cardinal Newman attended an Inspire peace event at Coventry Cathedral, in company with Dennis Davison, a Second World War veteran. The students gave a presentation about the work they have done in school to promote peace and their work as peace ambassadors and presented their Peace Charter. The Head Boy also gave a speech on peace and Remembrance and how Cardinal Newman students focus on this theme. 

Community Reach

1800

Additional information

www.cncs.school

Project Summary

Young people from Turton School remembered the fallen during the poignant battlefield tour. This project gave the school a chance to share their experiences and make people further aware of the events of the war, including in The Bolton News.

Community Reach

46541

Additional information

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/13880788.Young_people_remember_the_fallen_in_poignant_battlefield_tour/

Project Summary

The students worked on a PowerPoint which they presented to the whole school during an assembly. The presentation was printed off and is currently being displayed in the school’s visitor’s room (visitors are asked to sign a visitor’s book and leave a comment). The presentation is also available on the school’s website.

Community Reach

300

Additional information

www.greatoaks.school/

Project Summary

Students led assemblies for all year groups on their experiences of the trip. They then asked tutor groups to decorate a poppy with their reasons for remembrance and created a memorial display with these in reception.

Community Reach

1200

Additional information

www.hayesfield.com/

Project Summary

The school organised a ‘lest we forget day’ to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War on the 9^th of November 2018. Each lesson taught a First World War theme - for example Geography looked at the Battlefields and Maths the statistics of the dead soldiers. The pupils dressed in First World War themed clothing and activities were also held at break and lunch time. Assemblies were held in the lead up to the day.

Community Reach

800

Additional information

www.henbury.bristol.sch.uk

Project Summary

Students completed an independent project on a local soldier to gain a place on the trip. Students have since written an article each about their experiences for Shrewsbury Academies Trust schools termly magazine. Expected completion date: April 2017

Additional information

http://shrewsburyacademy.sat.coop/

Project Summary

The students held an assembly on theme ‘Is remembrance more or less important 100 years on?‘ Students carried out research for the Battle of the Somme anniversary into local soldiers who died and created their own memorial. They are creating a display for continued commemoration.

Community Reach

855

Additional information

http://www.ridgewood.dudley.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The school will commemorate local soldiers through Remembrance assemblies in November and other initiatives including those linked with local football teams - Birmingham City, Aston Villa and West Bromwich. Their hope is that one or all of the stadiums will deliver a screening either before the match, or at half time, of local soldiers who fought in the war. They can then link this to the famous Christmas 1914 football match in No Man’s Land.

Community Reach

110

Additional information

www.hallgreen.bham.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The girls completed some research on a relative and this was used in a whole school remembrance assembly.

Community Reach

1100

Additional information

www.whitburncofeacademy.org/

Project Summary

The school will research and commemorate the lives of local soldiers. They wil share their work with a local priimary school, with visitors to school Assemblies, and througfh lesson activities. Expected completion date: July 2017.

Project Summary

The students wrote an account of their trip, what they learnt and the importance of commemorating the war. This was placed on the school website and in the school newspaper, as well as in the local newspaper The Formby Times, for local residents to read.

Community Reach

400

Additional information

www.range.sefton.sch.uk/home/

Project Summary

Pupils from all three sites created a PowerPoint presentation for form tutors to show in their form groups; they added a quote about their experience into the school newsletter and also created a display board which included information, pictures and their quotes.

Community Reach

50

Additional information

https://meadehill-ebsd.co.uk

Project Summary

The Independent featured an article about the schools battlefield tour. Amongst the many experiences featured was the tracing of local soldiers during the tour.

Community Reach

10523

Additional information

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/thousands-of-teenagers-to-visit-battlefields-of-the-first-world-war-in-new-government-scheme-9812343.html

Project Summary

In March 2015, students from the York Independent State School Partnership and other schools around York took part in a battlefield tour. On their return home the schools organised a combined memorial service in York Minster and a public exhibition at the Castle Museum in the city to commemorate the centenary of 1916. This included making perfect handmade models of some of the battleships at Jutland, research into Zeppelin raids over York (2nd and 3rd May 1916), work at the York Archives with the local newspapers from 1916, piecing together the story of conscientious objectors, research into the Acomb memorial and a study of relevant editions of Rowntree Factory magazine, ‘The Cocoa Works.’

Community Reach

130200

Additional information

https://www.huntingtonschool.co.uk

Project Summary

The school is continuing the project by advancing plans to include a remembrance logo or crest (designed by the students) on the Huntley and Palmers biscuit tins. It will have reference to those who worked at the old Reading biscuit factory who died during the First World War, for example Lieutenant Henry Cyril Thorne.

Additional information

www.readinggirlsschool.co.uk/

Project Summary

The experience included creating a Roll of Honour for the assembly hall. 40 students travelled to Ypres and a professional video was made of this project. With a partner school from Berlin, in February 2017 the school visited the Hall of Remembrance in Birmingham, The National Memorial Arboretum, Cannock Chase British and German War Cemeteries and the Imperial War Museum.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

https://vimeo.com/146757115

Project Summary

The students helped to create and lead a presentation in front of the governors of the school. They then undertook a visit to the National Aboretum with Year 9 students who were studying the First World War. Plans are in place to hold a remembrance ceremony on 11th November.  

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

https://www.staffordmanorhighschool.com/

Project Summary

The students researched local soldiers, and their work was featured in the Barking and Dagenham Post; a fallen local soldier was then traced on a subsequent battlefields trip organised by the school.

Community Reach

13054

Additional information

http://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/news/eastbrook_students_remember_fallen_soldiers_during_battlefields_visit_1_3636354

Project Summary

The students wrote an essay titles ‘How did the First World War influence Wilson’s School?’ The essay was been entered into the Young Historian competition in the local history category. It has been read by all students in Year 8 (155) as part their study of the First World War. It has also been promoted in the school’s weekly newsletter which is sent to all members of the school community and published on the school’s website.

Community Reach

155

Additional information

http://www.wilsonsschool.sutton.sch.uk/community/dept/history/index.html

Project Summary

A Remembrance assembly, a Service of Remembrance with Royal British Legion were held and an Enterprise day to create Remembrance artwork/videos were held,
as well as Skypathon with 6 schools in different countries across the world to showcase remembrance activities from the Enterprise Day.

Community Reach

600

Additional information

www.thewestminsterschool.co.uk

Project Summary

The school created a memorial garden on the school site, planting a tree for this year's Remembrance Day.

Community Reach

31800

Additional information

http://rushcliffe.notts.sch.uk

Project Summary

An article was written for the school magazine immediately following the tour. A new Year 8 scheme of work is in development, to look at the involvement of Indian soldieres in the First World War in particular., reflecting the shared experiences of warfare. This Scheme of work forms the basis of some assemblies with local Primary Schools around Remembrance Sunday. Future plans include working with the Old Moseleains Association of ex staff and pupils, having found out that the school was a base for the PALS Battalions. The school hopes to be part of the annual September Heritage Day.

Community Reach

2400

Additional information

http://www.moseley.bham.sch.uk/

Project Summary

Students have and will visit First Schools, and Scouts and Guides groups to deliver a presentation on why remembrance is still important. These groups will then create a model of a monument or soldier or a stained glass window to commemorate those who died in First World War and produce an exhibition of their work.

Community Reach

110

Additional information

https://slp5.somerset.org.uk/webs/fairlandsmiddleschool

Project Summary

The project involved a 'Hidden Heroes' exhibition, whereby the whole of Years 7 and 8 (200 students) were given a talk by the two sixth form students who attended the tour on teh importance of commemorating the First World War. The school then focused on the soldier that the school had researched from Wood Green.

Community Reach

210

Additional information

http://www.stthomasmoreschool.org.uk/

Project Summary

Students held a series of assemblies commemorating the Centenary of the end of WW1 and visited a primary school to deliver a workshop and reflection. A giant display in the entrance foyer of the school has been set up, including a full size ‘Tree of Reflection’ from which students can hang luggage tags with messages of gratitude/prayers and a park bench under the tree upon which sits one of six ‘There but not There’ soldier outlines. The rest are scattered around the Main Hall on chairs so that they sit amongst students during assemblies. A carpet of around 2000 3D poppies on the floor around the tree and bench was made by KS3 students; a ‘BSS Thank You 100’ display board inspired by the Royal British Legion’s campaign, was created for all members of the school community who have any connection to the war bring in their story and pictures to be collated into a giant display of gratitude.

Community Reach

2500

Additional information

www.bishopstopford.com

Project Summary

The students developed a live theatre performance: Always Remembered, Never Forgotten. They led a cast of 50 students to produce in this live show. Students took on the roles of performer, stage manager or script writer. The performance consisted of drama, music and dance and followed the lives of local soldiers who fought during the First World War. The production took the audience on a journey experiencing family life, training requirements, life in the trenches, life for women, loss and those who returned home.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/27310119

Community Reach

176690

Additional information

http://www.st-thomasmore.org.uk/

Project Summary

The pupils designed and created an interactive virtual tour of the Battlefield sites they visited.  Users of the platform could use the touch screen to navigate through the multimedia experience.  The pupils imbedded photo and video footage from their visit and the legacy Project was installed in the school  library for pupils to enjoy and experience in their free time and during book exchange.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

www.hughsexey.com

Project Summary

The school participated in their Centenary Battlefields Tour with a number of other Ormiston Academies in March 2015. They subsequently completed their Legacy 110 project, extending the reach of their experiences with an article published in newspaper School’s Week, April 2015.  Particular research was under taken into those who joined the war effort despite being under the minimum recruitment age, inspired by the story of one student’s great great great grandfather.

Community Reach

10000

Additional information

http://www.cowesenterprisecollege.org.uk

Project Summary

The two students presented an assembly to every year group (Years 7-13).The school posted details of the visit on the school website.The school carried out a whole school remembrance day service.It is currently planning a 2018 art project which will lead to every student and member of staff producing a set piece of art to make an installation at the school to commemorate the centenary.

Community Reach

1100

Additional information

www.ifieldcc.w-sussex.sch.uk/

Project Summary

Part 2 of our project:
The students delivered an excellent assembly in Remembrance week, including information about their tour. With assistance from Year 10 students they shared stories of men from Kings Heath who they had researched in the summer. Also inspired by the Coming World Remember Me Project the students created a memorial consisting of 150 poppies spilling down from a shell.

Community Reach

1200

Project Summary

The Northern Echo published an article which featured the schools' very special trip to the battlefields - especially their poignant visit to Neuve Chapelle to coincide with the 100th annivesary of that battle. Four divisions including the British Army fough here in March 1915.

Community Reach

332192

Additional information

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11841368.Pupils_to_mark_the_100th_anniversary_of_the_Battle_of_Neuve_Chapelle/?ref=rss

Project Summary

The school participated in their Centenary Battlefields Tour with a number of other Ormiston Academies in March 2015. They subsequently completed their Legacy 110 project, extending the reach of their experiences with an article published in newspaper School’s Week, April 2015.

Community Reach

10000

Additional information

http://www.cliffparkoa.co.uk

Project Summary

In March 2015, students from York Independent State School Partnership and other schools around York took part in the battlefields tour on the Western Front. A memorial service was held at York Minster, attended by over 200 people but the students were determined to do more. A team of around 14 young people also therefore put together a fantastic display about the First World War and in particular, the events of 1916 to mark the centenary year. Through this exhibition, students exceeded their 110 people target by an unbelievable margin - they reached it in the first hour of the display being open and thousands more visited over the summer.

Community Reach

130200

Additional information

http://www.millthorpeschool.co.uk/millthorpe/

Project Summary

Students delivered assemblies to students from years 7-11 (approximately 900 students). They also went into a local primary school during July 2015 to share their experiences. They then created a First World War exhibition of ancestry information.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

www.latimer.org.uk/

Project Summary

The school have published a detailed article about their Centenary Battlefields Tour on their school website. They have also planned to take a larger group of students from the school across to visit the battlefields for themselves.

Community Reach

1050

Additional information

http://www.stjamescatholichighschool.org.uk

Project Summary

The school participated in their Centenary Battlefields Tour with a number of other Ormiston Academies in March 2015. They subsequently completed their Legacy 110 project extending the reach of their experiences with an article published in newspaper School’s Week, April 2015.

Community Reach

10000

Project Summary

The students created a video to explain the impact of the First World War on the soldiers involved. This video was shown to all form groups and students throughout the school were asked to create their own memorial square in dedication to an individual or group affected by the war. These squares were displayed for a time in the History classroom. The students' video was also publicised on the school website.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.trinitysevenoaks.org.uk/

Project Summary

The Tavistock Gazette and East Cornwall Times published an article including the students’ experiences on tour.

Community Reach

31000

Additional information

http://www.callingtoncc.net

Project Summary

The Harrow Times newspaper and locallondon.co.uk have both published articles including the students’ experiences on tour.

Community Reach

40200

Additional information

http://www.shaftesbury.harrow.sch.uk

Project Summary

The students conducted two assemblies, one for KS3 and one for KS4, for which they created a Powerpoint Presentation of their experiences and spoke in front of their respective peers. They also contributed to publishing an article about their experiences on the Leeds City Academy website.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.leedscityacademy.org.uk

Project Summary

The school held a remembrance assembly and form time remembrance activities. A Newsletter article was written and peer teaching took place at the Humanities Club on how to access the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and how to find out more about the First World War. Year 8 historical enquiry/research projects, a Somme and Ypres Salient trips and a local visit to a primary school have continued to develop this area of work.

Community Reach

1600

Additional information

www.st-bedes.org.uk/

Project Summary

One student researched the names of soldiers who died during the First World War in Minehead and painted rocks with a poppy and the name of the soldier. She then distributed these around Minehead for people to find, take photos of and share on social media. Another student researched and wrote a story about the life of a soldier from Minehead which he shared with the school and his local church. 

Community Reach

3000

Additional information

www.mineheadmiddleschool.co.uk

Project Summary

Students led a group of peers through making a trench model. This model was displayed at the Walthamstow First World War event on the 15th of September 2018 then moved to the front of the school for staff and students to see.

Community Reach

900

Additional information

https://www.kelmscottschool.co.uk/

Project Summary

For the past four years, each Year 7 student has had the opportunity to research their family role in WW1. This work has been on display throughout the local community in collaboration with the RBL, and will be put on exhibition at a local museum, the Dean Heritage Centre, for the remainder of 2018. Search 'Dene Magna History' on Facebook for pictures and more information!

Community Reach

900

Additional information

www.denemagna.gloucs.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The school participated in their Centenary Battlefields Tour with a number of other Ormiston Academies in March 2015. They subsequently completed their Legacy 110 project extending the reach of their experiences with an article published in newspaper School’s Week, April 2015.

Community Reach

10000

Additional information

http://www.ormistonchadwickacademy.co.uk

Project Summary

The Argus newspaper published an article about the students’ experiences on tour in October 2014.

Community Reach

30000

Additional information

http://oakgrovecollege.org.uk

Project Summary

On Centenary day, each form made a memorial poppy which was then displayed throughout school and in the local area.  In 2017, a huge art installation was created using poppies that every student, member of staff and visitors used to remember someone with. In 2018 to mark the Centenary of the armistice, the whole school stood in silence in formation spelling out the word ‘PEACE’.  Every member of the school remembered someone on an ‘Everyone Included’ card which were displayed during the silence.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

www.winstanleyschool.org.uk https://wccww1legacy.wordpress.com/

Project Summary

The Jewish Chronicle features an article about the student experience. In particular, the article described their discovery of the grave of Jewish poet Isaac Rosenburg, also the tracing of many other Jewish soldier's footsteps during the First World War.

Community Reach

6832

Additional information

https://www.thejc.com/education/education-features/stars-of-david-on-the-headstones-shrapnel-on-the-ground-how-a-generation-came-face-to-face-with-wwi-1.62104

Project Summary

The students delivered assemblies to all year groups at the school. They also delivered remembrance assemblies to local primary schools, sharing their knowledge and understanding. The two students also created a diary, with pictures, to show the different places visited and relevant information. This has been left on display in the History department.

Community Reach

500

Additional information

www.archbishoptemple.com/

Project Summary

The students featured on Midhurst and Petworth and had gained a place on their tour through their impressive research of Midhurst war veteran William Ellis.

Community Reach

3500

Additional information

http://www.midhurstandpetworth.co.uk/news/new-heads-work-to-take-midhurst-college-projects-to-the-community-1-6704088

Project Summary

The students led a number of assemblies when they returned, outlining their trip and how it impacted them, as well as explaining their personal connection through their ancestry. A number of photographs from the trip were displayed on plasma screens throughout the school along with information. A local newspaper feature was also published.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

www.holycross.kingston.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The school held a ‘Performance, People and Peace’ event.  Dances, poetry and pieces of music were performed on the theme of peace.  Samples of this were also shown at school’s Easter assembly and presented to Trinity Church Ladies’ Fellowship group.

Community Reach

1670

Additional information

www.gosfortheast.newcastle.sch.uk

Project Summary

Assemblies have been presented to Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 students. A display board is currently being completed. A memorial orchard is being planted and named. The school is now considering some curriculum changes as a result of the work being developed. Expected completion date: April 2017

Community Reach

110

Additional information

www.bosworthacademy.org.uk/

Project Summary

The students led assemblies, created a display and wrote for the school newsletter. This led to other remembrance activities in the years after the tour.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

www.bishopwand.surrey.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The school have published a detailed article about their Centenary Battlefields Tour on their school website.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.carisbrooke.iow.sch.uk

Project Summary

The school used local resources, including the Wiltshire History Centre, to trace the life of William Jones, the soldier whose grave we was visited during the tour at Tyne Cot cemetery.He had been an employee of the local newspaper, The Wiltshire Times, so the school decided to present its findings to the newspaper at the same time as opening a permanent school garden of remembrance.A precis of the story is on both the school and Wiltshire Times websites as well as the Wiltshire At War website.
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/11838505.Moving_trip_for_Clarendon_Academy_pupils_at_they_find_grave_of_former_Wiltshire_Times_employee_at_The_Menin_Gate/?ref=rss

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/14030134.Clarendon_pupils_present_report_of_former_Wiltshire_Times_employee_for_Remembrance_Day/?ref=mr&lp=8

Project Summary

Coming World Remember Me - The school set up an enquiry into how current values of equality and diversity were reflected in how the First World War is remembered. It was also interested in the significance of remembrance. The findings were presented to students in Years 7 to 11 through three assemblies during Remembrance Week. The school also wrote accounts of the visit for the website newsletter.

Community Reach

1480

Additional information

http://www.lggs.org.uk/

Project Summary

The two students created a fifteen minute PowerPoint presentation to share with each year group during an assembly. Also, a large section of the school newsletter included a photograph and details of the trip. The Last Post was played at school on Armistice day at 11am and poppy seeds were planted in the school Quiet Gardden.

Community Reach

1500

Additional information

http://www.stac.uk.com/

Project Summary

The visit experience was disseminated to the school community via a whole-school assembly.  Each child who attended had a focus: one was to find out about a relative who fought and died in the war; the other was to find out about the fallen from Tynedale Rugby Club (names which the school displayed on a local rugby club memorial plaque). A feature was also published in the local newspaper to further promote the event.

Community Reach

330

Additional information

www.corbridgemiddle.co.uk/

Project Summary

A whole school First World War day was held at the school, in coordination with the Red, White and Blue Charity day run by The Soldiers' Charity. The school were featured in their national advertising campaign and I have enclosed a link here.

Community Reach

1700

Additional information

www.shtc.org.uk/

Project Summary

The students tour was featured in the Eastern Daily Press.

Community Reach

14986

Additional information

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/photo_gallery_battlefield_tour_brings_home_reality_of_the_first_world_war_to_high_school_students_1_3821970

Project Summary

As part of the ‘Learnfest’ days at school the two children organised and produced a learning session for other students and some primary school children around the Christmas day truce and then organised a First World War poetry competition about going ‘over the top’. They also arranged to have a First World War box of memorabilia from the Imperial War Museum which was shared and explained to school pupils in both Archers Brook and some local primary schools. The school hopes to organise a display about local soldiers in the regional shopping centre.

Community Reach

170

Additional information

www.archersbrook.cheshire.sch.uk

Project Summary

The school have published a detailed article about their Centenary Battlefields Tour on their school website.

Community Reach

1000

Additional information

http://www.uppinghamcollege.org.uk

Project Summary

A report was published in a local newspaper. The school also created a large photographic display. A trip has been arranged for 49 students and the school is looking at a further remembrance activity for later in the year.

Community Reach

300

Additional information

www.rhyddings.co.uk/

Project Summary

Work was done on the CWG and VDK and a piece of work completed on the differences between the German and British Cemeteries. One student wrote an essay on remembrance and created a timeline of her ancestor’s life including the battle he died in. A display was mounted at the local Bacup Natural History Museum. A presentation has been shown at parent’s /awards evenings. The Project has been featured in the local press and has been reported in the school magazine. On a further trip, the school made a video of the Manchester Hill commemorations, and are hoping for it to be used in a forthcoming football match between Manchester City and Manchester United on remembrance day...

Community Reach

500

Additional information

www.fearns.lancs.sch.uk/

Project Summary

The students worked on compiling a PowerPoint presentation to lead a whole school assembly. The used photographs they had taken on tour and added their own narrative remembering stories and events they had heard and taken part in.

Community Reach

300

Additional information

www.churchillpark.norfolk.sch.uk

Project Summary

On return from tour, the students worked with others to look at the issues of bravery and courage, remembrance and the role of colonies and their people. At the Silverstone Grand Prix in July 2017, the school set up an activity stall in the Family Zone, encouraging visitors to share reminiscences from previous generations of their families who had served in the First World War. Young visitors were asked to decorate a poppy and dedicate it to someone who served in the war. This was then added to a giant collage. 

Community Reach

3000

Additional information

https://www.utc-silverstone.co.uk/

Project Summary

The students wrote an article about their experiences of the trip to the battlefields and reflected upon the importance of remembering the legacy of the First World War. They researched the content of their article together, and have commented upon remembering the war, not just for the British soldiers who died, but also for the German soldiers, as well as people who fulfilled other vital roles, such as nurses.

Community Reach

365

Additional information

http://www.carshaltonboys.org/news/default.asp?pid=1&nid=2&storyid=520

Project Summary

The Jewish Chronicle features an article about the student experience. In particular, the article described their discovery of the grave of Jewish poet Isaac Rosenburg, also the tracing of many other Jewish soldier's footsteps during the First World War.

Community Reach

6837

Additional information

https://www.thejc.com/education/education-features/stars-of-david-on-the-headstones-shrapnel-on-the-ground-how-a-generation-came-face-to-face-with-wwi-1.62105