HBHS pupils exmaine school log books
On the 23rd of January 10 Herne Bay High students visited the Maidstone Library and Museum. We started off with a talk on people from World War One and the football truce. There were many activities there to complete such as using a micro-film, looking through copies of school log books to find out information about Walter Tull. We also all read out a timeline of the war and how it affected our local area. At the end we got to look in the archive which was very exciting. We got to see pieces of work hundreds of years old.
We next visited the Maidstone museum. We got taken into a room and we got to listen to two World War One experts and got to examine artefacts from the War such as Christmas boxes and football boots. We also got to study some handmade greetings cards made in France and also the postcards they would have been able to send back home. We also looked at the other cards sent by soldiers some of which had to be destroyed if they had anything written on the back or anything incorrect, as not to give away confidential information if the Germans took it or if it gave away information the public was not meant to know. We discovered the use of propaganda in the war on the posters and how they attempted to get people to enlist. Two of the students got interviewed by the man in charge of the Football and Peace Project. They got asked lots of role play questions and their opinion on how they would feel if a family member went to war. Meanwhile one of the students got to try on the clothing and equipment that a Tommy would have worn thusly being able to understand how the soldiers would have felt physically felt from the clothing.
In the end we got to ask questions on what we did not know from World War One such as would you still find World War One bombs which are completely unexploded.
In the end we all had a great day and got a lot more knowledge on the football truce and various other facts about World War One.