This morning Leswalt and Kirkcolm upper classes headed into Stranraer to visit the Museum. This term, our social studies topic is WW2, and to enhance our learning, we organised a trip with Madeline from the museum to get hands on with some of their real artefacts!⚠️
We learned about Stranraer in the past and during war time. We started with a tour around the museum, looking at some of the local artefacts which had been donated and hearing stories about evacuees and local figures. Upstairs, there were 4 boxes waiting for us, each with artefacts, old newspaper articles and documents which link to a WW2 personnel. Each group had the job of investigating the artefacts and figuring out who the owner would be. We had artefacts belonging to; an engineer, a WW2 house wife, an evacuee and a member of the woman’s land army. Afterwards, we then had to become museum curators themselves and arrange the artefacts in a ‘mini’ exhibition.🪖
Overall this was such a fantastic way to spend the morning and a great way to engage with what our local community has to offer. We are so grateful to the wonderful staff at Stranraer Museum for welcoming us in the morning and making use of their facilities and we hope to have many reasons to return in the future! 😃
