Topic - History

EvacuationW/B 29th June

In this lesson we are going to find out more about the experiences of children

who were evacuated by looking at real accounts from the children who

experienced it.

Read the following pages to find out more about the experience of evacuation.

This is a letter written by Ellen Howard, an evacuee from Birkenhead, aged 13.

Activity: Use the letter to make a list of the main differences between Birkenhead (a large town) and Oswestry (a small town).Think about the noises, surroundings (e.g. trees, streets), cars, work, atmosphere (the quality of the air).

Oswestry Birkenhead

The letter was published in the local newspaper, the Oswestry and Border Counties Advertiser. Do you think the paper would have published it if Ellen had been unhappy? Give your reasons.

This memory is from Margaret Corlett. Margaret and her brother, Harold, were evacuated from Birkenhead. Margaret remembers that she “was billeted by 9pm”, so she was lucky compared to some other children. She stayed with Mr and Mrs Cyril Brayne and their son, John, who was aged 7 when she arrived.

“We were herded like cattle around the streets of Oswestry, officials knocking on the doors of those who had put their names down as wanting an evacuee. That person come out of his house and chose whom they like the look of. It was total chaos. Some children were still being walked around the streets at midnight”.

How does this account differ to the account in the newspaper?

Activity: Imagine that the wartime character you created has been

evacuated from London to a small village.

Type or write a letter home to one of your relatives explaining what it

was like.

Include the following information:

* What happened when you arrived

* Who are you billeted with

* What the people you live with are like

* What you like about living in the countryside

* What you don’t like about living in the countryside / What you miss

Topic – Art / History

PropagandaW/B 29th June

Activity 1: Watch the video below, then look at the government propaganda posters on the

following pages and discuss the following questions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-how-propaganda-was-used-during-world-war-two/zr77wty

•What does each poster try and convince you to do?

•How does each poster persuade you? (e.g. images, slogans, powerful words)

•What audience is each poster aimed at (men, women, children or all groups)?

•What is the purpose of this poster?

•Why did the government want the Home

Front to ‘Dig for Plenty’?

•If the Home Front had not organised

growing more of its own food, what

would have happened?

Would a poster showing what would

happen if people did not start to ‘dig’ have been more or less effective? Why?

•Choose a cause to produce a poster for.

•Think of a tag line and sketch your idea on a whiteboard or a piece of paper.

•Produce you final poster on card (Sketch in pencil then use felt tips or colouring pencils to colour neatly)

Activity 2: Design a propaganda poster. Think about what you

would like to persuade the public to do.

Look at the website below for more ideas.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/campaigns.htm