Introduction
All activities are directed by museum volunteers who are retired military personnel or civilians with expertise and an interest in these topics. Events are usually held on Wednesdays over the year, subject to station commitments. There is no cost involved in any of these events although donations are rarely refused.
There is a limit of 30 children per event. Larger classes can be managed over following Wednesdays.
Example timetables of these events are available by contacting the museum by using our Contact Form
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WW1 and WW2
Designed to give the students a deeper understanding of the history of the times and how it affected people left at home as well as those fighting. The practical events are designed allow the students to not only take part and handle equipment, but ask questions that will arise from this hands-on approach.
Our hope is that students will be excited by these events and want to explore them more either at school or privately.
As the years pass, the opportunity to talk to people who actually witnessed or took part in the two wars is diminishing rapidly so it is important to raise an interest with young people so that hopefully they will be interested enough to carry out further research to keep the memories alive.
STEM
Is based around our current Cool Aeronautics activities and designed to demonstrate elements of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and to allow students to apply them to practical activities. in conjunction with the careers and educational team of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
