On this beautiful sunny day, Year 6 visited the World War II gallery at the Imperial War Museum as part of our History learning. It was so interesting to see such an enormous selection of artefacts that really brought our learning to life.
From a Paul Nash painting to Enigma machines, to tanks, to air raid shelters and propaganda posters, we saw so much that we have been learning about at school and we couldn’t wait to find out more. We were challenged to find out three new facts from the artefacts and information in the galleries.
Many thanks to all of the parents who accompanied us. We really appreciate your support.
Year 6: Can you share some of the facts about World War II that you found out during our trip today?
It was wonderful .I loved it ;we saw so many weapons and the facts sucked me in!
From the displays I found out that a soldier had to connect his stomach to his arm to his nose so he could breathe. I really enjoyed the trip because i could learn a lot more about The Second World War.
there were shelters that were literally beds with chains not for claustrophobic people and France got invaded by Germany and then by Britain to restore them
I really liked visiting the imperial war museum because it taught me that Singapore was actually part of WWII but it was part of Malaysia then .They still got affected though even though they were so far away.
I learnt that the morrisson shelter could hold 4 people
It was such an interesting trip. I learnt that there was 432 tanks in total in the war and there was 50 to 85 million deaths, including civilian and military.
Mussolini was a dictator in Italy and was commanding in Italy instead of the king.
the facts I leart were the mersion shelter could hold 4 people
I loved it it was so fun I learned that the Italian dictator was called Mussilini
At the museum, I learnt that in concentration camps the soldiers used pistols more often.
A fact that i learned was that people in the WW2 died every five seconds. The total number people who died during the war was 85 million , including the military and civilians from across the world.
It was so fun! I learnt that there were 50 – 75 million deaths
i learnt about all the uniform that the soldiers were wearing during the war.
We read about different facts about what happened in WW2. I saw bombers and boats which evacuated people. I saw the shelter where people went to hide themselves from any bombs. We saw different films and clips about times in the war.
I enjoyed it so much! I learnt the people in the auxiliary fire service carried around axes.
I learnt about different types of guns at the museum.
I learnt that the Morrison shelter could hold 4 people
During the visit to the war museum I saw a part that said they had boats that saved people and evacuated. Germans made bombers to try and sink the ships.
I learned about different types of tanks and guns
The trip was amazing! I got to learn so much and even got to experience things like going in a war shelter and going in the bed under neath the table ! It was so cramped and was even caged!
I loved the trip to the Imperial war Museum!! I learned lots of facts, and they were all so interesting! I learned that there were 6 barrel cannons, and that a New Zealand pilot flew the British Hawker Hurricane. I also learned that Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt were called ‘The Big Three’. I really enjoyed this trip, and I hope to do something like this again! Also, I’m making a mini Hawker Hurricane, and afterwards, I want to make a mini Supermarine Spitfire!
This trip was very interesting my favourite bit was seeing the artifacts and what a house would look like during world war two.
I learnt that everyone had to work and that boys were forced to go to army .
It was very interesting .
It was really interesting apparently little kids had to wear mickey mouse gas masks they were called this as the colour of them were the colours of mickey mouse .
a fact is that when all the allied countries won the war they threw toilet paper
I really enjoyed the trip thank you for taking us.
A fact i have learnt was that under the table there could have been a shelter.
The trip to the museum was amazing! I found out that many airman cut their shoes so they looked like civilians then ,they used compasses as buttons and no one knew they weren’t citizens.
I learnt that people went to concentration camps because they disagreed with the Nazis.
That I know the eagle is the symbol of Nazi Party.
During the trip to the imperial war museum I learned that people had to sleep in these very cramped metal bed (to protect them from the bombing) that had railings everywhere so when they wake up they would probably get hit by the railing on the head. I also learned that that since Germany invaded France Britain wanted to invade France to make France France again and restore people. Thank you miss it was so interesting.