The History Department on tour - from Auschwitz to Zagreb
The History Department arranges visits to historical sites, workshops at leading museums, takes groups to lectures by important historians and has organised successful tours abroad.
Visits from past trips are listed below - some of these have links to reports by pupils
who went on the visit.
More recent trips are described in the History Department pages on the main Oakham website
here
These reports are all illustrated. File size is given in brackets below - you may need to wait some seconds for the pictures to load.
A Level Trip to Paris, 2008
A Level students spent three days in Paris in the Spring as they prepared for their exam on the French Revolution and followed up their course-work on Napoleon. The itinerary included Royal accommodation from the palace of Versailles to Marie Antoinette's cell in the Conciergerie, views of Paris from Sacré Coeur, the top of the Arc de Triomphe
and of course the Eiffel Tower, some of the great museums and galleries of the
city, and more...
GCSE Trip to Berlin, 2006
GCSE students investigated a frosty Berlin and in 5 days experienced some of the Germany of the Kaisers, of the Nazi period, of the Cold War and the Modern period. As well as visiting a concentration camp, the Jewish Museum and Holocaust Memorial they were able to enjoy some of Berlin's entertainments - Pizza, ice skating and shopping on the Ku'damm...
Third year Trip to Ypres, 2009
The Third Year took time off school for a cross-curricular visit to France and the Battlefields around Ypres
2008 Visit
2007 Visit
2006 Visit
War Museums
The Third Year investigated the World Wars - half travelled to the Imperial War Museum and National Army Museum in London, and half to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, where they were able to study artefacts from land, air, sea and home fronts, as well as having a workshop with a hands on session. They give some feedback on what impression their day gave them...
StPetersburg and Moscow, 2005
A study trip to Russia's two main cities for a Fourth Year group preparing for their course on revolutionary Russia, amazed with some of the great artistic and architectural achievements of Tsarist Russia, key sites of 1917, and landmarks of Soviet Russia. They report on their five day tour here.
Eastern Europe, 2000
This visit to some five countries in Europe was designed to look at and explore many of the key events and places studied in the GCSE Modern
History Course. Places visited included:
...Berlin...
...Auschwitz...
...Krakow & Prague
Second Form visit to Burghley House, 2008
Oakham’s History and Art Departments teamed up with the education department of Burghley House to put on an action-packed day for the second year at the fantastic house Elizabeth I’s chief minister built for himself at Stamford. With the house closed to the public the boys and girls had full scope to take advantage of some expert guidance and to explore the treasures of the house and its sculpture garden.
2007 Visit
Globe Theatre and National Portrait Gallery
"The whining schoolboy, with his satchel..." Young Will S. perhaps, but not these Year 8 schoolboys and girls who enjoyed a dramatic
day.
Lincoln, 2008
Medieval City, Castle and Cathedral. 100 experts on Medieval Britain
will guide you - Year 7 visit.
2007 Visit
National Portrait Gallery, 2004
Turning on the style with the Tudors. Year 8 pupils get the message(s).
2004 visit to the Globe
Royal Armouries, Leeds, 2008
DO TOUCH! Year 7 get their hands on some vicious items, rub a knight up
the right way, sample the samurai, and much more...
2006 Visit
2005 Visit
Kentwell Hall 1553
Year 8 go to Kentwell Hall in Suffolk - where everybody
is carrying on as though it is 1553. Queen Mary has just despatched Lady
Jane Grey and her relatives to the Tower but the inhabitants of the Hall
from Sir John Clopton to Jane the kitchen maid are trying to get on with
sixteenth century life as normal...
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