My Grandad

My Grandad came to talk to our class about his life in the World War 2 as a boy. He told us about lots of things like what food they ate and what it was like when the bombs came down and what it was like hiding in the old mines under ground. He told us that he had been evacuated from his home and he had to leave his family behind so he set of to the countryside. He was sent to a farm where there a woman and 3 children. The woman did not let my Grandad go to the bathroom inside so he had to go outside, even in the winter.

He found life in the country hard at first and he did not like the food, but after a few weeks he got used to every thing. He had never seen a cow or never had a sat under a tree and just hear the birds and the wind. He loved it. But after a long time it had to end. He was glad to go home but he was sad to leave the countryside. He said his goodbyes and he went home to his family. He found that home was a very different place from what he remembered. The streets were dark and black at night. There would be no lights unless they had all their windows boarded up. My grandad and his family made it through the war.

By Kizzy

My Grandad John

During our World War 2 project some people who had experiences during the war came to talk to our class. One of them was my grandpa John. He had been a school boy and a soldier during the war. He fought in the British army but had to leave when he got shot. He still has the same jacket with the bullet holes today. Carla and I had to try to find the holes.

He brought in lots of different clothes and objects to show what they had to carry or wear. He had lots of things from jackets to hats and medals to old war release books.
Some of us got to try them on. He also told us lots of stories of when he was in the army. Some where sad, some where really amazing and some where really funny! One of the funny ones was:

“I was once in a field with another soldier, and we were on look out. After a while I started noticing the sound of shooting around me. I asked the other soldier what the noise was. He said:
‘Oh, that’s just a sniper trying to shoot us.’ He was in a very calm voice like it didn’t matter.” The whole class was in fits of laughter!

IZZY

Izzys grandad is called John. He got shot by the Germans with Schmeiser 9mm machine pistol. He got shot from the knee to the hip and he stil has 1and1/2 bullets inside him.

Swagger and Nonny

Evacuation Day Lessons

During our World War 2 project, we had an evacuation day. An evacuation is when a child, woman or baby is sent to the country on a bus or a train because the city is too dangerous.

The first half of the day we went to get billited (given to a family) and the second half we were acting like children at school in 1939. The tables in class were all in straight lines and we moved up the class depending on how we answered questions. Mr Devereux was really strict with us and sometimes a bit scary! Our first lesson was maths. We were taught about the different types of money. We got a work sheet with money questions. The coins they had back then were:

• Half a crown
• Farthing
• Sixpence
• Ha’penny
• Shilling

The next lesson was writing . We had to write letter home to our parents (pretending to).We had too write really fancy. The class had to write that they had arrived safely.

We then did reading. Each of us had to stand up and read a passage from a book called ‘The Secret Garden’ to the rest of the class.

When we did handwriting we had to write really fancy. The class had to write a couple of old fashion rhymes.

Izzy

More on the Evacuation Day

Here are some more photos of our evacuation day. Everyone had done a fantastic job of getting 1930s clothes.

The Evacuation Day

During our WWII (World War Two) project we had a pretend evacuation day. The evacuation was during WWII which happened in 1939-1945. Millions of children and others, with disabilities, were sent away from Britain to the countryside where they would be looked after by locals.
In our evacuation day our class got dressed up in old fashioned clothes and walked down to the village hall near the school and some of our parents got dressed up too.

In the village hall there were lots of old objects. In there we got billeted which means that we pretended that we were going to stay with the local people. In the hall the old objects were a milk churn and the other objects that was there were: a big horse harness and a chicken.

By Nevis and Pony