A WEBSITE produced by a small rural high school has been short-listed for a prize in a competition being run by a national television channel.Year 9 students from Holbrook High School's history club researched the role the Suffolk Regiment played in the First World War and put together the results on a general website, which is being used by schools and history groups throughout Suffolk.
A WEBSITE produced by a small rural high school has been short-listed for a prize in a competition being run by a national television channel.
Year 9 students from Holbrook High School's history club researched the role the Suffolk Regiment played in the First World War and put together the results on a general website, which is being used by schools and history groups throughout Suffolk.
Now the school has been short-listed for a local history prize by Sky's History Channel and could be the subject of a short documentary if it wins the competition.
Dale Banham, the school's head of history, said they had also had a visit from the acting producer of BBC Online, who are considering creating a site on the First World War for school.
If the project goes ahead, he said, there will be a direct link from the BBC site to the Holbrook general site.
Mr Banham said three students, Callum McClean, Nicholas Page-Vigus and Ben Pedro Anido, all aged 14, and the school's IT co-ordinator and deputy head teacher Andrew Pascoe, put together the general website, which can be accessed on www.slamnet.org.uk/history/suffolk_regiment
Students used information gathered from the local record office, letters and poems written by soldiers from the regiment, old film footage from the Imperial War Museum, local and national newspapers, paintings and photographs, to produce their findings, which can also be seen on www.holbrook.high. suffolk.sch.uk
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