Bring a real-life context to WW1 with a visit to the battlefields and memorials of the Ypres Salient and participate in the moving Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate to pay tribute to fallen soldiers with no known grave.
We’ve enhanced our Belgium WW1 battlefields school trip with a wider range of excursions, covering key topics such as trench warfare, military tactics and major battles. For a more immersive experience, you can also add an expert battlefield guide, helping students gain deeper insight into the events of the Western Front.
Bring history to life as your group visits iconic WWI sites including Passchendaele, explores preserved trench systems and discovers powerful collections of militaria. Students will also experience the importance of remembrance at sites such as the Menin Gate, with the opportunity to observe or take part in the moving Last Post Ceremony.
All trips include our teacher-designed workbooks, covering the causes of WWI, the Western Front, military technology and the peace treaty. Activities focus on interpretation, propaganda, and the experiences of soldiers, with visit-based tasks linked to:
Passchendaele Museum 1917
Tyne Cot Cemetery
In Flanders Fields Museum
Menin Gate & The Last Post Ceremony
Wimereux War Memorial
This is a suggested itinerary, please contact us if you would like to change visits to suit your learning and curriculum.
Arrive by coach in Ypres and visit the In Flanders Fields Museum in the town centre. A great starting point from which to capture the students’ attention, its interactive displays cover medical treatment and hygiene, propaganda, military technology and much more.
Check into accommodation
Evening meal
Start your day early, have breakfast and collect packed lunches.
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world and includes the servicemen who died in the Battle of Passchendaele.
Passchendaele Museum 1917 - Focussing on one of the bloodiest battles of WWI, this museum offers a fully immersive student experience to help students comprehend the lives of soldiers, including the impact of war on mental health, and whether shell shock was treated effectively.
Evening meal at local restaurant
Last Post Ceremony - This poignant tribute to Unknown Soldiers takes place every day at 8pm.
Breakfast and collect packed lunches.
Yorkshire Trenches and Dugout - A section of original WWI trench, carefully excavated, preserved and restored by archaeologists. Students can consider the features used to protect soldiers, living conditions and how the use of trenches created stalemate, extending the war’s duration.
Travel back to school
We have a long-standing relationship with local hotels and hostels who will do their best to sort out all your particular requirements like special diets, disabled facilities or single rooms.
We tend to recommend Menin Gate Group Accommodation centres in Ypres for our school groups as their team is experienced at looking after our school groups and their hotels are well located.
This WWI memorial is on the site where the British Army suffered their worst ever casualties in a single day. A bronze Caribou monument stands as the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.
© David Nicholls
The largest British war memorial in the world is known as the "Memorial to the Missing". A moving tribute to the 72,000+ servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme in WWI.
© Timothy Shawn Hack
The striking Canadian National Vimy Memorial is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian servicemen who lost their lives in WWI—particularly in the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
© Tristram Biggs
At The Carrière Wellington museum in Arras, students can walk the same network of WWI tunnels which were utilised by the British troops in a surprise attack on the Germans.
Explore WWI as it happened while you journey through the museum in chronological order. A range of immersive films, artefacts, scriptures and photographs help to bring history to life.
Visit this British Frontline museum and walk through a series of well-preserved trenches. Discover how casualties were tended to during the first battle of Ypres.
At the biscuit manufacturer, Jules Destrooper, you’ll see—and taste—everything! From the old family recipes from 1886 to the latest production processes, you're sure to enjoy this tantalising tour.
Boasting, among other things, the highest water chute in Europe, Bellewaerde Park is just outside Ypres, close to the French-Belgian border. Enjoy thrilling rides, marvel at exotic animals and explore the park.
A site of a great tactical significance for both the Allies and German forces, with hellish mine battles taking place here over the course of WWI.
An expansive private collection of WWI militaria, including an original ambulance and true to size reconstructions, gathered by passionate local residents. Developed with education in mind, the museum and its experts offer a range of options for school groups.
The largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, with 11,961 servicemen from the First world War buried or commemorated here.
A section of original WWI trench, carefully excavated, preserved and restored by archaeologists in the 1990s. The narrow and oppressing trenches offer a grim reminder of the conditions servicemen faced during their arduous battles.
Focussing on one of the bloodiest battles of WWI, this museum offers an impressive collection of artillery, reconstructed trenches and dug out for an immersive student experience. New for 2024 is a 360° cinema experience: Passchendaele 1917.
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