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History
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Trips & Workshops
Into Film Festival – free cinema trips!
This month we’ve enjoyed going to the cinema twice as part of the Into Film Festival. This is an annual event where children can go and see films for free as it’s open to children in school and those who home educate. You simply book online via the festival website and turn up on the ... Read more
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Western Approaches, Liverpool
Western Approaches HQ in Liverpool is a great day out and gives everyone a chance to learn more about the vital work that was done here during the Second World War.
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Manchester Jewish Museum
To accompany the course we followed on National Oak Academy about Judaism, we spent a morning at the Manchester Jewish Museum to bring to life what we’d learned. This museum was opened in July 2021 after a £6 million redevelopment which included a new gallery, café, shop and learning studio/kitchen as well as complete restoration ... Read more
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History | Religious Studies | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
World War I online course
Over the past few weeks, I have been following a WW1 course run by Humanatees. Their courses are run by Jake and are each about an hour long. Jake is very nice and funny. You can choose to do the live sessions or the recorded ones; I did the recorded sessions. I have done another ... Read more
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Anglo-Saxon Experience at Tatton Park
Last week we went to an Anglo-Saxon day at Tatton Park. We learnt how to make a shield wall, learnt where a lot of sayings come from and how to hunt and cook. I had a lot of fun going back to the basics. It was by the farm so, while we were having our ... Read more
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Anglo Saxons | History | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
Does the Loch Ness Monster really exist?
Twinkl has released some new CSI Investigations this week so we thought we’d have a go at one after reading so many positive comments about them on the various Twinkl Facebook groups. The girls picked the Loch Ness Monster one as Peggy especially likes to read about mythical beasts. The pack was really self-explanatory with ... Read more
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Stockport Air Raid Shelters
A visit to the Stockport Air Raid Shelters is a standard school trip for a lot of local schools so we thought we’d go along and check it out for ourselves. At just £5 per adult and accompanying children going free, it really is a bargain trip out. The girls’ knowledge to date of WW2 ... Read more
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Greater Manchester Police Museum
What an absolutely brilliant museum! We went for a tour at 2pm and had to leave at 3.30pm when it closed otherwise I think we would have stayed longer! There were so many displays to look at which covered everything from the hats/helmets they used to wear, to the weapons seized from the prisoners during ... Read more
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History | Law, politics and citizenship | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
The Pankhurst Centre, Manchester
What a brilliant little museum! Right in the heart of Manchester between two massive hospital buildings lies this historic house and now an inspiring museum – The Pankhurst Centre. We spent just 45 minutes there but the conversations it triggered far exceeded that. Both girls already knew quite a bit about the Suffragettes thanks to ... Read more
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Manchester Architecture Tour
I found this free tour on Eventbrite and thought we’d give it a go. It was run by Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks who led us on a walk, together with another 15 or so people, around the city centre looking at different styles of buildings from the Classical, Italianate, Gothic, Baroque and Modernist ... Read more
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Art, Design and Technology | History | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
