During this term, primary 7 have been learning about WWII. One of our favourite themes of our topic has been evacuation. We loved getting to dress up as evacuees for the day, deciding what we would bring to our new home in the countryside, making up our own  stories and creating our own evacuee display!

To bring our classroom walls to life, 3 pupils designed and painted ‘Emily’ and ‘Matthew’, our two evacuees that are now displayed on one of our WWII walls. Mrs Mclean, our classroom assistant also worked alongside some of our classmates to create a background for Emily and Matthew showing their journey from the dangers of the city bombing to the safety of the countryside.

We are nearly finished reading our much loved class novel, “Goodnight Mister Tom”. It’s really helped us understand what life would be like for some evacuees living in the country and that some children weren’t treated as nice as others. We plan to watch the movie after reading the rest of the book.

“I can’t wait for the end of the book and to watch the movie, the book is quite sad but it is still really good”- Peter

As part of understanding what it felt like to be an evacuee we got to come dressed up in what we thought one might look like.

It was fun taking part in a group role play. We performed tableaux to our other classmates. A few of us already knew what tableaux were from taking part in drama clubs and helped explain to the rest of the class. To begin our role plays we started with a freeze frame scene. Next we added movement and dialogue.

“It was very fun getting to work in groups, my favourite bit was adding movement and dialogue to our tableaux”- Conor

We loved learning about evacuation and can’t wait to find out more about WWII.

-Grace and Eve