EVACUEES - WW2 - YR6

Character - A historian of that period

PROPS AND MATERIALS BROUGHT:

• Camouflage Set
• Smoke machine and stage lights
• Portable PA System with microphone
• POP-UP Museum of Evacuee replicas
• Journals for each pupil
• Warden hats
• Aunthentic hand held air raid siren
• Evacuee suitcases

VENUE REQUIREMENTS:

• School hall as a base throughout the day with school lunch to be accomodated for.

If appropriate an evacuation period in another location of school eg. play field or similiar. This would consist of splitting the groups that have been working together all morning and then suddenly sent somewhere else and to write in their journal how it made them feel.

FORMAT:

• The entire year group together the whole day

TEACHING ASPECTS

• Birmingham Blitz
• Air raid experience
• Air raid shelters
• Evacuees experience
• Pop WW2 museum visit
• Journaling their feelings of what they are experiencing
• Germany’s advances in Europe
• Preparing their suitcase as an evacuees
• Jasper Maskelyne, the War Magician

FUN ACTIVITIES

• The air raid experience with sounds, light and smoke
• Games played in the air raid shelter
• Magic Show based on Jasper Maskelyne camouflage principles
• Exploring the Pop up museum