School Trips To Ypres

Menin Gate Ceremony

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The largest memorial to the British and Commonwealth soldiers, whose graves are unknown. Every day at 8pm, the Last Post Ceremony takes place at the Menin Gate. This is an incredibly moving experience. 

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In Flanders Fields Museum

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Located in the centre of Ypres this interactive museum allows visitors to follow the story of the war through personal testimony, exhibitions, videos & imagery.

In Flanders Fields Museum, the main aim is for students to know and understand their past but also their present-day world. Because remembering the war, even though it happened 100 years ago, is still relevant today. With this in mind they have developed some workshops for school children aged between 13 & 15 which we highly recommend for History study groups. These workshops include:

Home by Christmas

How ‘the big picnic’ evolved into the world’s First industrial war. Using posters, photographs, original artefacts and personal testimonies, the students will get a clear picture of what war is really about, both then and now. Workshops last around an hour.

Coming World Remember Me

This unique and emotive workshop allows students to create a statue for one of the soldiers who died in The First World War. Approximately 600,000 soldiers and civilians died or were fatally wounded in and around Ieper between 1914 and 1918. Each will be given its own small statue as part of the land art installation ComingWorldRememberMe. Each student who makes a statue, receives a personalized certificate and a stamped CWRM dog tag. Workshops last around 1.5 hours.

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Tyne Cot Cemetery

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The largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world with 11,956 soldiers buried here, many unnamed. There also panels naming 34,888 missing soldiers.

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Hooge Crater Museum

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This excellent museum includes: an exhibition of period equipment, archive images and maps; a whole section dedicated to the treatment of the wounded and the casualty evacuation process; and a recreated trench system.

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Bayernwald Trenches

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Bayernwald is a unique reconstructed site, consisting of two German mine tunnels, a mineshaft, and a system of trenches with five bunkers. The site can be reached through a pathway through the restored trenches. Information panels tell about events in the war and life at the front.

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Sanctuary Wood & Hill 62

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One of the few places on the Ypres Salient Battlefields where an original trench layout can be seen in some semblance of what it might have originally looked like. Original equipment from the battlefield site and photographs can be viewed in the museum.

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Menin Gate Ceremony

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The largest memorial to the British and Commonwealth soldiers, whose graves are unknown. Every day at 8pm, the Last Post Ceremony takes place at the Menin Gate. This is an incredibly moving experience. 

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In Flanders Fields Museum

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Located in the centre of Ypres this interactive museum allows visitors to follow the story of the war through personal testimony, exhibitions, videos & imagery.

In Flanders Fields Museum, the main aim is for students to know and understand their past but also their present-day world. Because remembering the war, even though it happened 100 years ago, is still relevant today. With this in mind they have developed some workshops for school children aged between 13 & 15 which we highly recommend for History study groups. These workshops include:

Home by Christmas

How ‘the big picnic’ evolved into the world’s First industrial war. Using posters, photographs, original artefacts and personal testimonies, the students will get a clear picture of what war is really about, both then and now. Workshops last around an hour.

Coming World Remember Me

This unique and emotive workshop allows students to create a statue for one of the soldiers who died in The First World War. Approximately 600,000 soldiers and civilians died or were fatally wounded in and around Ieper between 1914 and 1918. Each will be given its own small statue as part of the land art installation ComingWorldRememberMe. Each student who makes a statue, receives a personalized certificate and a stamped CWRM dog tag. Workshops last around 1.5 hours.

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Tyne Cot Cemetery

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The largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world with 11,956 soldiers buried here, many unnamed. There also panels naming 34,888 missing soldiers.

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Hooge Crater Museum

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This excellent museum includes: an exhibition of period equipment, archive images and maps; a whole section dedicated to the treatment of the wounded and the casualty evacuation process; and a recreated trench system.

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Bayernwald Trenches

• View on Map

Bayernwald is a unique reconstructed site, consisting of two German mine tunnels, a mineshaft, and a system of trenches with five bunkers. The site can be reached through a pathway through the restored trenches. Information panels tell about events in the war and life at the front.

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Sanctuary Wood & Hill 62

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One of the few places on the Ypres Salient Battlefields where an original trench layout can be seen in some semblance of what it might have originally looked like. Original equipment from the battlefield site and photographs can be viewed in the museum.

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