Hi All,
I apologise for not replying earlier but have had problems logging in with password and user name bars disappearing..:rolleyes:

In regards to my query as to having these as put back on the curriculum obviously I was wrong to suggest that they where off. I was not blaming the teachers directly but will say that those who may just skirt over the subject teaching what they think is sufficient is definitely not doing the pupils any favours. As the subject is covered in the Key Stage 3 http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-history-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-history-programmes-of-study but is not statutory learning and maybe that is what I was trying to put over in my fumbled attempt at giving a reason for why many do not know or care about such memorials.

If I read the key stages (Above link) it basically allows the teacher to educate and decide what to include in the pupils lessons. I dare say that being as the lessons are crammed to the limit and class room sizes being larger may also add to the lack of coverage ? Yet I am saddened by the apparent lack of trips to visit these memorials possibly due to cost and class sizes ?

Never the less I still think that teaching of war history from start to finish with visits to wherever (Especially war memorials) should be statutory, it is IMPO the only way of getting the pupils to be aware of the lessons that the world was supposed to have learned by all conflict culminating in the two world wars that lead to untold loss of military and civilian along with untold animal life on all sides, sadly it seems that we never do learn these lessons and war carries on…….:(

Geoff.