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Schools urged to sign up for £5.3m First World War education initiative

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Schools are being urged to take advantage of the government’s £5.3 million battlefields project. The scheme is part of next year’s First World War centenary programme and is offering a range of resources for schools, including visits to battle sites in ma

Schools are being urged to take advantage of the government’s £5.3 million battlefields project.

The scheme is part of next year’s First World War centenary programme and is offering a range of resources for schools, including visits to battle sites in mainland Europe.

Almost 1,100 schools have now signed up with each institution to send two students and a teacher on a four-day tour to First World War battlefields and other notable sites.

The tours begin next spring and will run until 2019 and the idea is that the students and teachers who go can then pass on what they learn to their peers back in England.

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