
Remember the wartime sacrifices at the ‘POW’ Eden Camp, Yorkshire… Lest We Forget!

The best thing about owning a motorhome is the variety of places it allows you to visit, whilst the beautiful thing about learning is that no-one can take it away from you…. So we’ve been fortunate to stand with our girls in the WW1 trenches in the Somme, or listened to the Belgium guide in Flanders Field or even walked the beaches of the D-Day Landings at Juno Beach…. before arriving into North Yorkshire to see the award winning ‘Eden Camp’ (through our increasingly useful York Pass)
Learning about WW2 from inside the POW huts


examples Humanity
during war hardships
Whilst we don’t want to upset our children, visiting this exhibit over Remembrance Day weekend has ensured our girls realise just how much was done for them by previous generations… The debt of thanks we owe is significant and books, TV programmes and poems can be a fantastic way to help understand this, but nothing beats actual visits to places like Eden Camp.
Ideas to help your children understand WW1 and WW2
Although our girls have grandparents who tell them about life in the war (as told to them by their parents) it’s still hard to grasp the concept of what life was like. So alongside our ‘History‘ section within our ‘Get Learning‘ section, here are ten ideas which might help if you have young children wanting to find out more:-
- Watch or read ‘Goodnight Mr Tom‘ by Michelle Magorian
- Find out what the poppy and the colours represent (here)
- Watch some of the parades and observe minute silences
- Take your children to see a village or town war memorial, look at some of the names and discus who could those people be? (like we did at the Menin Gate, Ypres)
- Create a World War II meal based on some of the recipes used
- Watch Warhorse (on BBC this weekend) or go and see the stage version
- Visit the Imperial War Museum
- Look up some World War poetry (like Siegfried Sasson)
- Read ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit‘ by Judith Kerr
- Watch or read Horrible Histories Frightful First World War and Woeful Second World War
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