On Thursday Primary 7 had a World War II workshop called Home Front Histories. Captain Mannering, acted as a Home Guard from World War II.

He brought his collection of World War II memorabilia such as: weapons, food, helmets gasmasks, and equipment for a British and German soldier. He even brought some guns. Some of the guns were called: M1 grand, LM6,M14  and a star wars gun, but we never guessed the name.

We were separated into 3 groups and got given worksheets each. We had to answer questions at each table which related to the artefacts. If you got certain questions right you got promoted.

There was also a dressing up station with lots of guns and jackets and helmets, we were able to get our pictures taken next to Winston Churchill.

At another station, we all made ID cards and we have to show these ID cards to any teacher that asked, so at lunch Mr Robson asked for an ID card check. (We have to keep these until the end of our World War II project.)

Every 15minutes or so an air raid siren went off and we had to stop what we were doing and go to the air raid shelter.

After lunch we all got to crank the air raid siren and you could hear it from MILES!!! It was so loud.

We all had a blast and we wish we could do it all again.

 

Zidane and Ellie