The Battle of Britain

Horrible Histories: Spies

Key Stage 2

Sessions support programmes of study in History, Art, English, Literacy and Citizenship and include handling original artefacts as well as using documents, photographs, posters, paintings and film.

Sessions take place in our School Rooms or in the galleries and encourage students to create their own enquiry questions and interpret source materials.

Choose from this list or browse through the images above to see the sessions available.

Extraordinary Heroes Gallery:  Creative Conversations

Years 5 and 6 - 60 minutes

Students will use our Object Dialogue Box to take a creative approach to navigating a museum gallery.  Specially commissioned for our Extraordinary Heroes exhibition, the unique objects are designed to stimulate exploration and debate.

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First World War: Personal Perspectives

Year 6 - 90 minutes

Students use material from IWM's Collections to lead their own investigation into one person's experience of the First World War.  They then share their findings and reflect on the range of experiences represented.

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Second World War: Investigate a Wartime Family

Years 5 and 6 - 60 minutes

Working in the Family in Wartime exhibition students will explore the experiences of the Allpress family and discover what it was like for an ordinary family living in Britain during the Second World War.

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Second World War: Meet an Evacuee

Years 5 and 6 - 60 minutes

Students have the opportunity to meet a Second World War eyewitness who can answer students' questions and share their memories of evacuation and life on the home front.

This session is only available on Wednesdays.

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Second World War: Object Detectives

Years 3 and 4 – 60 minutes

Students explore four different themes linked to life on the Home Front during the Second World War, using objects and images from IWM’s collections.

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Second World War: Through Children's Eyes

Years 5 and 6 - 60 minutes

This session examines the impact of the Second World War on the everyday lives of British children in both the city and countryside. Students handle artefacts, look at photographs and examine documents.

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Sessions take place in dedicated learning spaces within the museum.

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Key concepts

  • Chronological understanding.
  • Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past.
  • Historical interpretation and enquiry.
  • Speaking with confidence, listening to others, group discussion and interaction.
  • Reading for information and understanding texts.

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Learning Resources

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From the World Wars to the Cold War, IWM gives teachers and students in UK schools everything they need to explore the course, causes and consequences of conflict from the First World War to today.

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