On Tuesday we imagined what it would have been like during the Blitz.

The small Poly tunnel had been turned into a pretend Anderson shelter (the inside was covered in tarp so you couldn’t see out).

In the classroom the air raid siren went off and we had 1 minute to grab any belongings.

Then we had to run as fast as we could to the shelter.

We had three groups: orange, blue and green. Each group had a small space we had to stay in.  We stayed inside it for one hour and 15 minutes.

We did activities in our groups and took notes on our work sheet.  We looked at old photos, listened to music from WW2 and a recording of the blitz.  We also had time to talk, read books and play games with our friends.

We had some juice and biscuits! (Lots of biscuits!)

It was fun but it made us realise how hard it would have been to stay in one for a long time every night with bombs going off.  It would have been terrifying!

Anderson shelters in the war were cold, damp and uncomfortable but they helped protect people and saved lots of lives.

By Livia