Ypres & Somme: WW1 Battlefields School Trips

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Battlefields - Ypres & Somme

A Ypres and Somme battlefields school trip takes your group to Tyne Cot, Thiepval and the Menin Gate, and to the ground the fighting happened on. The scale is hard to grasp from a classroom.

The point of the trip is scale. Tyne Cot is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, and Thiepval carries the names of more than 72,000 men with no known grave. Your students see the ground itself too, at preserved craters and trench lines across the Ypres Salient. At Newfoundland Memorial Park the shape of the battlefield is still there in the grass.

Evenings and museums do the rest. The Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate is held every evening, and the Passchendaele Museum and the Somme 1916 Museum give the fighting its context. Many groups bring their English department along and work war poetry into the trip.

Every group gets Project Battlefields, our free student and teacher resources, and a wreath for your laying at the Menin Gate. Book ten months or more ahead and there is £10 off every place, and every group gets free Belgian chocolates at Chocolats de Groote. A battlefield guide can also search family and local regiment records. Tell us your dates and we will build the trip around them.

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Suggested Itinerary

Our tours are of great educational value and tie within the standard requirements of the National curriculum. Students can develop their understanding of the events leading up to and during WWI by visiting the many battlefield sites, memorials and cemeteries in the Somme and Ypres areas.

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Travel and the Ypres Salient

Travel to Ypres.

You will depart school by executive coach with a Channel crossing to Calais by Eurotunnel or ferry, continuing to Ypres.

The Ypres battlefield sites.

On arrival you will visit a series of battlefield sites including Hill 60, the Caterpillar Mine, Hooge Crater and Essex Farm Cemetery, before checking in to your accommodation for an evening meal. You may then choose to attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.

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A day on the Somme

The Somme battlefields.

After breakfast you will collect packed lunches and travel to the Somme to visit the Sunken Lane and Hawthorn Mine, Newfoundland Memorial Park, the Thiepval Memorial and the Somme 1916 Museum. There is also the option to swap the Sunken Lane and Hawthorn Mine for Vimy Ridge on the way.

Return to Ypres.

You will return to Ypres for your evening meal, with an optional ten-pin bowling evening.

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Remembrance and the journey home

Cemeteries and Passchendaele.

After breakfast you will collect packed lunches and check out, then visit two significant cemeteries, Langemark German Cemetery and the Tyne Cot Commonwealth Cemetery, followed by the excellent Passchendaele Museum.

Lijssenthoek and home.

If there is scope for a later Channel crossing you may also visit Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, before making your return journey home.

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Adaptable Travel can arrange an alternative WWI Battlefield program to, or in replace of those listed above. If you wish to alter the above suggested programme of events listed above, please let us know.

If you have chosen to include a Battlefield guide, they can help with family & local regiment history searches. They can rework the itinerary to add sites which relate to a school’s specific region in the UK or can research and locate a relative’s grave.

Please contact us for more information and let Adaptable Travel tailor make your next school Battlefields trip.‍

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Our Expert Battlefield Guides

You can enhance your tour with our expert battlefield gudes to guide you on your tour to the Battlefields.

Meet some of our expert guides below. All of the battlefields guides we use for our tours are Guild of Battle Guides registered meaning you will always get the best possible experience.

Steve Smith - Guide

Paul Durham - Guide

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Ypres & Somme: WW1 Battlefields School Trips

Bespoke School Trips to

Battlefields - Ypres & Somme

A Ypres and Somme battlefields school trip takes your group to Tyne Cot, Thiepval and the Menin Gate, and to the ground the fighting happened on. The scale is hard to grasp from a classroom.

Suggested Itinerary

Travel and the Ypres Salient

Travel to Ypres.

The Ypres battlefield sites.

A day on the Somme

The Somme battlefields.

Return to Ypres.

Remembrance and the journey home

Cemeteries and Passchendaele.

Lijssenthoek and home.

Curriculum Visits in

Battlefields - Ypres & Somme

Restaurant Vivaldi

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

Langemark German Cemetery

Sunken Lane and Hawthorn Mine

Caterpillar Mine

Bowling in Ypres

WW1 Battlefield Sites

Waterloo 1815

Vimy Ridge and Canadian Memorial

Tyne Cot Cemetery

Thiepval Memorial

Somme 1916 Museum in Albert

Notre Dame de Lorette

Newfoundland Memorial Park

MESH theatre

Menin Gate & The Last Post Ceremony

Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917

Lochnagar Crater

In Flanders Field Exhibition

Hooge Crater Museum

Hill 62 and Sanctuary Wood Museum

Hill 60

Great War Historical Museum

Family & Local Regiment History Searches

Essex Farm

Our Expert Battlefield Guides

Steve Smith - Guide

Paul Durham - Guide

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The Salient Hotel (Menin Gate Group)

The Poppies Hotel 1&2 (Menin Gate Group)

The Poppies Albert (Menin Gate Group)

Peace Village Hostel

Old School Haringe (Menin Gate Group)

Menin Gate Hostel (Menin Gate Group)

Hotel Premiere Classe Amiens-Glisy

Hostelling International Amiens

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