Head's Newsletter 9 December 2016

On Tuesday 29 th November, the History Department took all Year 12 Historians to Leicester to visit the Richard III Museum and archaeological dig site. There was a great deal to see at the Museum and a guided walk around the Cathedral to see

include a trip to the site of Richard's last battle, Bosworth Field, half an hour from Leicester, however this had to be cancelled due to flooding on the site. Despite this the boys enjoyed the visit greatly and took a huge amount away for their Year 12 Wars of the Roses History course. ~~~~~~ In the penultimate week of the Christmas term, the History Department took the whole of Year 9 on three separate trips to the Imperial War Museum , to add depth and a greater visual insight into their study of the First and Second World Wars. The First World War galleries took a sweeping overview of the causes of the War, the life

Phillipa Langley’s wellingtons worn at the excavation. She was the originator of the Looking for

Richard Project.

of a soldier, and the key theatres of the War, from all perspectives. The interactive trench was a particular hit with all forms, giving boys an impression of the sights, sounds and smells of a First World War trench very authentically. After this, The Holocaust Exhibition was a much more harrowing experience, and an incredibly

moving summary of the Nazis’ actions against the Jewish race through the 1930s and 1940s. It was an information-rich introduction to what the boys will be studying in the Spring and acted as an emotive insight into the experiences of many of those who sadly lost their lives as a result of the Holocaust and the ‘Final Solution’. The boys behaved maturely and sensitively and were a credit to Tiffin. They took way a lot of knowledge of two of the most tragic conflicts ever.

Richard's tomb and the newly unveiled stained glass was an added bonus. The Museum contained replicas of Richard's armour, his discovered bones and a chronology of the famous 2013 dig too, when his body was discovered under an inconspicuous car park. The information on offer was fantastic and very innovatively displayed and the guides gave the boys a real insight into the significance of the discovery as well. Unfortunately the trip was intended to