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Oct 21, 20202 min read
Joanna Milan visit
We were immensely privileged to welcome and host Holocaust survivor Joanna Millan to our academy to share her testament two years ago....
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History team
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Theatre visit to see the Doctor's show
A group photo of our Historians with the actors - a terrific afternoon!
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History team
Feb 29, 20201 min read
The Doctor's Show - Not for the Faint Hearted !
45 keen Historians (Y9,10,11) having recently been studying the history of medicine and health through time , visited Bristol on...
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History team
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Holocaust Survivor Talks for BCA Historians
In preparation for our Holocaust survivor who is visiting BCA in March, over 90 Year 9,10 and 11 Historians have participated in a series...
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History team
Feb 25, 20191 min read
Goodbyeee.
So after a very busy schedule, we have to say good bye to the Western Front. Our students over the last few days have walked through WW1...
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History team
Feb 25, 20191 min read
Notre Dame de Lorette
Last stop - the largest French military cemetery in the world “Notre Dame de Lorette” with a total of 40,057 casualties buried here. It...
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History team
Feb 25, 20191 min read
Vimy Ridge
We trekked up to Vimy Ridge after a short break for lunch. We walked through the crater filled landscape, with trenches as far as the eye...
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History team
Feb 25, 20191 min read
Arras - emerging from the tunnels.
Neve, Ryan and Paris emerge unscathed from a morning underground the city of Arras, following the footsteps of the New Zealand...
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History team
Feb 25, 20191 min read
Going underground in Arras!
Jaden, Sam and Stuart don their hard hats ready for the morning underground!
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History team
Feb 25, 20191 min read
Exploring the tunnels and caves of Arras
Undaunted, we went down 30 metres into the earth via a lift shaft, with WW1 hard hats, to explore the caves and tunnels of Arras....
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
From stretcher bearing to rifle handling ...
Another selection of really awesome moments from today’s fun. The strechers weren’t that heavy ... without patients on them ! Students...
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Medical aid for the combat soldier
We walked in the heat (February and so warm!) from Old Beaumont Road following the chain of evacuation for our Tommies Back to...
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Thiepval Memorial , the Somme
We visited France today stopping at the War memorial to the 72,000 missing British servicemen with no known graves near the village of...
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Menin Gate ceremony
BCA students Ryan, Paris,Neve and Thomas laid a wreath on behalf of the academy - well done for your remarkable contribution this evening...
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Tyne cot cemetery
Before the sun went down we visited Tyne Cot cemetery for the dead of the First World War on the Western Front. Of the 12,000 buried...
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Belgian chocolate shops are something else!
Free chocolate samples for the entire BCA group? Oh yes please! Absolutely delicious! Some interesting samples including the lesser known...
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Ypres Salient
Our year 9 girls, having marched through the fields of Flanders .
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History team
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Gas!Gas!Gas!
Paris and Ryan illustrate the increasingly sophisticated preventative measures taken to alleviate chlorine gas, at Hill60 Ypres, from the...
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