Primary 7 had an excellent time last week exploring what life was like during The Second World War.
We visited Scotland Street School in Glasgow where we got to dress up as kids from 1939 and take part in a morning's lesson at school with our very own strict school master Mr Valentine! He was so different to the teachers we have in school today, he even brought out the dunce hat and the belt at one point! (Ahhh!)
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| Model students?... pah! |
At The People's Palace we got to take part in a rationing workshop where we found out what it was like for people trying to buy food fairly during the war.
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| A week's ration |
We also got to try out some of the war time artifacts; a baby's gas mask chamber, an ARP hat and some mend and make do clothing! It was lots of fun!
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| Baby's gas mask chamber |
Lastly, we had a task to find out how many people could sleep comfortably in an Anderson Shelter over night. Although we weren't in there long enough to actually sleep over night in it, we had great fun experimenting with how many of us could fit in!
Our two groups came up with different suggestions:
1) 2 adults and 4 children
or...
2) 13 children!! (4 on each bench and 5 lying like squished sausages on the floor!)
Which would you think is the most comfortable now? ...hmmm!!
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| Clydebank Blitz |
Overall it was an excellent day out and we learned a lot about what life would have been like for us if we had been around during those difficult war years.
Mrs R has posted the photo PDFs on Glow in the Primary 7 documents folder so log on and check them out!
