{"id":6604,"date":"2018-12-10T12:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2018-12-10T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:35:47","slug":"s4-digging-in-during-wwi-trenches-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/2018\/12\/10\/s4-digging-in-during-wwi-trenches-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"S4 “Digging In” During WWI Trenches Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of the centenary commemorations of the First World War, S4 History pupils visited the \u2018Digging In\u2019 mock trench site at Pollok Park in Glasgow at the end of November.<\/p>\n

They braved the wind and rain to get a real experience of life in the trenches, communicated via semaphore, tried on uniforms and gas masks, used periscopes, handled memorabilia and created advertising campaigns on behalf of the wartime British government to eat more home grown vegetables.<\/p>\n

This was an excellent experience designed to consolidate their studies of Scotland and the Great War. Below are some more photos of the trip:<\/p>\n

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As part of the centenary commemorations of the First World War, S4 History pupils visited the \u2018Digging In\u2019 mock trench site at Pollok Park in Glasgow at the end of November. They braved the wind and rain to get a real experience of life in the trenches, communicated via semaphore, tried on uniforms and gas …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/taylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}