14/2/2008

Local News

Trip back in time for pupils

Children at Pyrford Primary School clutched their teddies and gas masks as they learnt what it might have been like as a wartime evacuee

PUPILS had a trip back to wartime Britain this week when they took part in an
evacuation day.

Children at Pyrford Primary School have been learning about the Second World War this term.

Their classroom activities were brought to life on Tuesday when they found themselves meeting temporary families for the day to help them understand the life of an evacuee.

Sarah Carrington, assistant headteacher at the Coldharbour Road school and a year three teacher, said: “We have been teaching the children about the Second World War and we wanted to do something that would
make history real for them.

“They came to school dressed as Second World War children and made their own identity tags and gas masks.

“We went for a walk around the village and then to the Church of the Good Shepherd.

“When we got to the church there were host parents  waiting there who chose the children who would come and live with them and there was a billeting officer, too.”

During their studies the children have also been learning about rationing and recipes that would have been cooked during the war.

Later this term they will visit Milestones Living History Museum in Basingstoke.

First printed in: Byfleet News and Mail