Their Past Your Future > Schools Competition

The Their Past Your Future programme (TPYF) at the Imperial War Museum (2004-2010) has now closed. This website is an archive of the project’s website serving as a record of activities throughout its lifetime, and will not be updated beyond January 2010. If you have any questions regarding the TPYF programme please contact the Imperial War Museum through info@iwm.org.uk quoting "Their Past You Future" in the subject heading.

To access the new TPYF/IWM website for teachers, featuring a range of exciting teaching ideas, resources and source material to explore the impact of conflict from the First World War to today, please go to www.theirpast-yourfuture.org.uk.

Congratulations to students from the York Independent State Schools Partnership who have won our latest schools competition. They will take part in a commemorative visit to Berlin and Leipzig between 29 July and 2 August 2009.

As part of the Their Past Your Future (TPYF) learning programme, a group of 24 students (aged 16-18 at time of travel) and 4 accompanying teachers will travel alongside Imperial War Museum staff to Berlin and Leipzig, Germany. The visit will explore the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall from a German perspective, in this the 20th anniversary year, and look also at the roots and history of the Cold War. As part of their prize, the winning group will produce a short documentary to be screened at the launch of TPYF’s Cold War-focussed online exhibition in November 2009, and as part of the public programme at the Imperial War Museum..

This competition is being run in association with the German Embassy, the Goethe Institut, and UK-German Connection.

You can discover more about what the group will ll see and do on the trip by clicking here.

To see what has happened on previous TPYF trips click here.

Inside the Classroom

Find a range of teaching materials to support classroom teaching and learning about the impact of the Second World War on the people who experienced it, and the places it affected. Included are a variety of lesson plans, primary sources from the collections of the Imperial War Museum, historical information, and guidance on learning with veterans, all available for free download.

Outside the Classroom

Find a range of resources to support teaching and learning outside of the classroom, including advice on working with museums, libraries and archives, tips for planning successful educational visits overseas, sample itineraries and risk assessment templates, all available for free download.

School Trips and Projects

View examples of project work from young people who have taken part in Their Past Your Future, including films, diaries, poems and websites. You can also browse through Photo Albums from our commemorative visits around the world.

Don't just take our word for it

‘You had a really good time but then you knew it wasn’t just about that; you learnt so much and you came back enlightened. Everyone came back glowing.’ Student, TPYF Commemorative Visit to Thailand and Japan, August 2005. Click here to read more from pupils and teachers about the impact of previous commemorative visits, and what the press have said about the programme.

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