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Posted on April 24th 2015
WWI Poetry Trip to Imperial War Museum
English students from Year 9 visited the First World War Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in Kennington to get a better understanding of the era, having studied WWI poetry last term.
Students were given a range of writing tasks to complete, as well as having time to explore the exhibitions freely.
One particularly evocative part of the museum is the trench recreation, with its tall walls, sound efffects and projections. The only things left to imagine were the cold, misery and terror of being a soldier, which the students did in a creative writing exercise.
For light relief, the group also visited the Fashion on a Ration exhibition where students were asked to imagine their own challenge of getting dressed-up for a party in the aftermath of Primark being destroyed in a futuristic London!
The trip have students a richer sense of the context surrounding the poetry they’ve studied, and a greater appreciation for another of the borough’s fantastic educational organisations.
