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In Flanders Fields Museum: the starting point for your battlefield trip

The In Flanders Fields Museum brings the story of the First World War to life through thought-provoking, interactive displays. Housed in the rebuilt Cloth Hall of Ypres (Belgium), a visit to the museum is the ideal starting point to take your school on a battlefield tour to Flanders Fields. The museum’s Learning Team has developed a wide range of educational programmes for different age groups, inside and outside the museum. Brand new is the free e-book ‘5 ways to learn about in Flanders Fields’, written for British (history) teachers.

Profile: Steve Mastin, history teacher and co-founder, Opening Worlds

Steve Mastin doesn’t want to talk about politics. That may come as a bit of surprise if you read his Conservative argument against grammar schools in this newspaper earlier this month. But while it might be easy to typecast some teachers for their political activism, it can also be foolish, as there’s almost always more […]