Yesterday, our G30 students had the opportunity to work with an expert from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission when they took part in a virtual session with historian Lynelle Howson. This session focussed on one day during WW1 (16th September 1916) and the students looked at records from the CWGC’s database to investigate the extent to which WW1 was a global war.
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On Wednesday afternoon (20th March) G30 will have the opportunity to follow up this work with expert Elizabeth Smith, from the CWGC, in person when she comes in to give the students a presentation on reading the war graves and the information they can get from them. Elizabeth will then accompany the students, along with members of staff, down to St Mary’s Church to investigate the Commonwealth war graves and putting the theory work into practice. This is an authentic and rich learning experience and we are incredibly grateful to the CWGC for offering these opportunities to us and helping our students when it comes to answering the guiding question for our current expedition in Human ‘Why should we honour all those who sacrificed during WW1?’