Education Programme

Introducing our newly revised Education Programme!

Thanks to support by the Lottery Heritage Fund, we have been able to appoint an Educational Visits Coordinator and create a brand new programme aimed at school visits by years 6 and 7.

This revised timetable allows for a longer visit which will comprise two sessions in the morning, a break for the children to eat their packed lunches and then two more sessions in the afternoon, all within the normal school day times.

These visits take place in our original and atmospheric wartime hangar, which provides children with a stimulating environment in which to learn about WW2.

INTERACTIVE LEARNING, A SCHOOL VISIT THEY WILL NEVER FORGET

The subjects you can choose from include:

Areas that we can cover include:

Code breaking and cyphers
The Battle of Britain
Evacuation, rationing and the Holocaust
The role of women within the Armed Forces, then and now.
Aircraft identification, tour and talks
June 6th D-Day, the Normandie landings

These sessions will be taught by our experienced and friendly team and will include activities paired with each subject.

School Visits

0ur school visits run from 10:00 – 14:00 and the cost is £8.40 per child (including VAT)

To make a booking and for all school visit enquiries please Email our Visits Coordinator

We are also looking to create another educational programme based around the STEM subjects and which will be designed for students in secondary and higher education. We are aiming to launch this very soon.

Maximum class size 33 children.

Group Visits

We also offer visits to groups of 20 or more such as Scouts, Beavers, Cadets etc. which can be based around the educational subjects mentioned above or tailored to your group’s needs.

These can also be accommodated outside of school hours so please Email Us and we will be happy to discuss your requests.

Mayfield Primary School Year 6 teacher.

What an absolutely fantastic day yesterday!

Year 6 experienced and learnt things beyond the classroom at the Hangar 42 Spitfire Visitor Centre – The life and times of an evacuee, learning and solving Morse code and the phonetic alphabet, machinery and weapons as well as seeing real life and replica planes and artifacts.

The children were exceptional in representing our school, as usual and the reaction from the children throughout the day was electric.

We cannot thank the team at the center enough, they couldn’t have done anymore to accommodate us – a particular shout out to the team leader Melissa Neal who has been amazing from the first point of contact to the very end of the day! Thank you 🙂

Please consider taking your children to this WW2 experience – we can’t recommend it highly enough!