Year 9 reflect on the First World War

Year 9 students have been able to enhance their studies of WWI this half term with a source box of original and replica WWI artefacts from the Novium Museum used in all lessons. Some were also able to learn through film with a cinema trip. One of the students on the trip writes as follows

"A small group of us had the opportunity to visit the New Park Cinema after school at the beginning of December with Mrs Fowles and Mrs Shuttleworth to see The Choral.  Set during WWI in a Yorkshire village, the film was about a choir learning to sing and having to adapt as more and more of the members of the choir left to fight in the war. The new choir master had lived in Germany and initially the people in the Yorkshire village didn't like him because they assumed he was a German sympathiser.  

The film reinforced what we have been learning about with WWI and how the war affected soldiers' emotionally and physically as well as their familes and friends back at home. It showed in a really clever and poignant way the sorts of injuries soldiers had and it helped me to understand the broader impact of war. I really enjoyed the film and how we were able to learn more about the war and what life was like on the Home Front whilst also being entertained.  It was great being able to watch a film in a small and cosy cinema and we all really enjoyed it." - Emily Atkins, Year 9 

Louisa Fowles, Teacher of History