KS2 Trip to Duxford
On Tuesday 5th March, the whole of KS2 went to IWM Duxford. It was a brilliant day. All the children behaved themselves and everyone got to see many of the war planes and vehicles used in World War One and World War Two. The children got to climb aboard Concorde, they saw Spitfires, Hurricanes, Lancaster Bombers, ammunition cases, tanks and much more.
The article below has been written by Leo S and Holly L.
KS2’s Day at Duxford - by Leo & Holly
It took forty-five minutes to get there. We were on a coach called Jacksons. Some of Class Asia and all of Class North America went on a blue coach and the rest of KS2 went on a white coach. When we arrived at the imperial war museum in Duxford, we were a bit early so we went into our groups and had our break time snack. When it opened at ten o’clock we all walked through hanger one where there was a carrier jump jet, a Concorde and a Vulcan. There were lots of other planes that we did not know the names of because they were all so varied and some were from America. We went through to a classroom where a volunteer for the museum told us about the hangers and what we were going to do for the day. We went around hanger one and sketched planes and we also went into other planes to see what they look like inside. One of them was the Concorde which was really interesting because it was a passenger plane that is the fastest travelling aeroplane with a tilting nose. It could fly to America in four hours. In a normal plane, it would take four hours to fly to the Canary Islands (off the coast of Africa). Then we went into hanger two where the air show planes were getting ready for their next flight. It was an active workplace so we had to be quiet. Then we went into hanger three where all the spitfires and hurricanes were kept. A kind person who worked at Duxford called Jeremy told us all about them. Then we sketched the spitfires. There was a mark one all the way up to a mark twenty-four! After we were finished there, we walked all the way back down to the start, walked through the airspace in hanger one and made our way into the classroom where we had our lunch. When we had our lunch, we walked all the way up to hanger eight where all the land warfare was like tanks, artillery and trenches. After that we trekked down to hanger seven. Inside was America’s planes like the F15 eagle. We saw the B-52 Stratofortress, which is the largest plane in the world. When we left that hanger, we went home.
