Community Travel

Students will travel to western Europe to encounter the way the Great War is actively remembered today. Traveling through WWI battlefields and visiting memorials related to this war will provide a first-hand persective to students to connect and challenge broad-based understandings of history.

Belgium and Northern France
Winter Break

While in western Europe, the community will:

• Visit art exhibitions and museums
• Explore WWI Cemeteries and Memorials
  • Flanders Field American Cemetery
  • Houthulst Military Cemetery
  • German War Cemetery of Langemark
  • Ypres Menin Memorial Gate
  • Tourcoing War Memorial
  • Lille War Memorial
  • Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge
  • Thiepval Visitor Centre and Memorial
  • World War I Somme American Cemetery and Memorial
  • Bllicourt American Monument
  • Museum of the Great War at Peronne
  • La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery
  • Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery
  • Suresnes American Cemetery
• Observe the Wijtschate Village - site of the Whitesheet Project achaelogical dig