Click here to read what some of the students who have participated had to say about their experiences.
Click here to read what some of the teachers who have participated had to say about their experiences.
The Their Past Your Future Commemorative Visits Programme was organised and led by the Imperial War Museum between 2004 and 2006. It provided hundreds of young people with learning experiences they will never forget.
Visiting a huge range of destinations related to the Second World War, the scheme provided an opportunity for exploration of the impact of this conflict on people and places around the world.
Participants:
- 544 young people from across the UK
- 96 teachers and youth group leaders
Commemorative Visits carried out as part of Their Past Your Future so far:
Monte Cassino, Italy, May 2004 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of Battle of Monte Cassino) – Ursuline High School, Wimbledon
Normandy, France, May 2004 – All Hallows School Farnham, Newcastle Under Lyme School, Staffordshire, Oakmead Technology College, Bournemouth, St Johns RC Comprehensive School, Gravesend, Stanway School, Colchester, William Parker Sports College, Hastings
HMS Belfast, London, June 2004 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of D Day Landings) – Cauldeen Primary School, Inverness, Inver Primary School, Inver-by-Tain
Portsmouth, June 2004 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of D Day Landings) – Holbrook Primary School, Coventry
Normandy, France, June 2004 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of D Day Landings) – Abbey Grange High School, Leeds
Normandy, France, July 2004 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of the Battle of Normandy) – Kinder Children’s Choirs of the High Peak, High Peak
Warsaw, Poland, August 2004 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of the Warsaw Rising) – Ullswater Community College, Penrith
Ypres, Belgium, and the First World War Battlefields, France, November 2004 (Remembrance) – Midhurst Intermediate School, Midhurst
HMS Belfast, London, November 2004 (Remembrance) – Govilon Community Primary School, Abergavenny
Normandy, France, November 2004 (Remembrance) – Tameside Youth Service, Manchester
Krakow, Poland, January 2005 (Holocaust Memorial day and the Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz) – Ounsdale High School, Wombourne
Berlin, Germany, March 2005 – Harrogate Grammar School, Harrogate
Singapore and New Zealand, April 2005 (Official 60th Anniversary ANZAC Day Commemorations) – Alec Hunter School, Braintree
Murmansk and Moscow, Russia, May 2005 (Official 60th Anniversary VE Day Commemorations) – Kingshurst City Technology College, Birmingham
Canada and the USA, May 2005 – Hampstead School, London
Normandy, France, July 2005 – Kinder Children’s Choirs of the High Peak, High Peak
Thailand and Japan, August 2005 (Official 60th Anniversary Commemorations of the Hiroshima A-bomb) – Cheney School, Oxford
Ypres, Belgium and the First World War Battlefields, France, November 2005 (Remembrance) – Wolverhampton Youth Service and Highfields School, Coventry
Malta, November 2005 (Remembrance) – King Edward’s School, Birmingham
Krakow, Poland and Berlin, Germany, February 2006 (Holocaust Memorial Day) – Lancing College, Lancing
Arnhem, The Netherlands, March 2006 – Deptford Green School, London
Berlin, Dresden and Nuremberg, Germany, April 2006 – Trainee Teachers from Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford
