Room 22 enjoyed a wonderful day at the museum this week. We went as part of our inquiry investigation into Conflict and Resolution, in particular World War 1 and Gallipoli. 
We had time to look around the museum at all the exhibits before we met the education officer after lunch.
Aria and Mason got dressed up in soldier's clothes before we all went of to the trenches in Gallipoli.
We learnt that in the trenches, where men stayed for periods of up to 10 days you couldn't stand up or you were shot. So the periscope was invented so men could see over the sandbags into enemy territory.
We also found out that trenches were shared with rats, lice, flies ...yuk!!You couldn't shower or have a bath and with there being no toilets things were pretty smelly.
There were no beds, soldiers slept on the ground.
We decided that the soldiers in the trenches must have felt very uncomfortable, sad, angry, bored at times and likely could have been depressed.
We know we would have been! We're all very glad that we didn't live 100 years ago!
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