Imperial War Museum

On the 10^th of October 2012, Year 6 went to the Imperial War Museum in Manchester. We had to be at school for 7am and set off at 7:15 am. On the way there we brought our DSs, iPods, phones and MP3 players, and played on Picto Chat. The journey took two and a half hours to get there.

Once we were there we had a warm welcome by the staff. The women said that the architect, Daniel Libeskind, designed the Imperial War Museum. He wanted to design the building to say you can destroy a world and put it back together again, but it will never be the same.

The staff was amazed at our knowledge for WW2. We learned in the workshop that there was a woman who got married in a pale blue outfit. Her future husband was married in his uniform because he was going into battle afterwards.  I felt sorry for them because they could have had a nice wedding.

After lunch we went up the Shard.  It’s a tower where you can see most of Manchester (do not go up there if you are scared of heights). The tower was snow flake white and was very airey, because it was open.  It had a metal floor and the walls were made of slats.

The gift shop was amazing and full of paraphernalia (stuff). In our group the mini pad and pen were the most popular. There were models of Spitfires, sweeties and slinkys. (Our teacher did not like us buying tat.)

On the journey back everyone was really tired, but we all really enjoyed ourselves.

By Jess (Yr6)

Way up high in the Shard

In a workshop on the Homefront