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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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Oct 21, 20202 min read
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Mar 20, 20200 min read
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Theatre visit to see the Doctor's show
A group photo of our Historians with the actors - a terrific afternoon!

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Feb 29, 20201 min read
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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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Feb 29, 20201 min read
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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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Feb 29, 20201 min read
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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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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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Feb 25, 20190 min read
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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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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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Going underground in Arras!
Jaden, Sam and Stuart don their hard hats ready for the morning underground!

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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 25, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 22, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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Ypres Salient
Our year 9 girls, having marched through the fields of Flanders .

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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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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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Feb 21, 20191 min read
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