Evacuation: Scheme of Work for History Key Stage 2

Learning Objectives

1. What was the Second
   World War?
2. When and where did it
   take place?
   

Learning Activities

Find out what the children already know about the war.

Find out why it took place and why it was regarded as a World War.

From the children’s responses, establish who the combatants were and why they were fighting. Note leaders, key events and dates.

Basic Skills

To extract information from a variety of sources.

Specific Resources

Timelines, text books, websites and maps.

Learning Objectives

To locate where bombing raids took place.

Learning Activities

Use maps to establish main targets.

Suggest reasons why some areas/cities were more likely to be bombed than others.

Basic Skills

Mapping skills to locate areas.

Specific Resources

Activity Sheet 3.
Document: ‘Evacuation Why and How?’

Learning Objectives

To know about the causes of evacuation.

Learning Activities

Introduce the idea of evacuation, suggest why evacuation was used as one strategy to protect children.

Basic Skills

Constructing and inserting dates on a timeline. Analysing text. True/false deduction.

Specific Resources

Timeline: Evacuation Preparation

Preparation for evacuation: how much do you know?

Timeline: Evacuation - The Great Trek

The Great Trek: true or false.

Learning Objectives

To find out about the experiences and feelings of evacuees.

Learning Activities

What was it like to be an evacuee?

With the children, produce a list of questions about evacuees. Ask the children to answer these using selected sources eg. photographs, extracts from novels, oral accounts, letters. Ask the children to write a letter home or a poem.

Basic Skills

To extract information from a variety of evacuees and be able to describe their experiences.

Specific Resources

Four evacuees are profiled and include biographies, extracts from their experiences, photographs and activity sheets.

Learning Objectives

To communicate their learning in an organised and structured way using appropriate terminology.

Learning Activities

Encourage the children to use their knowledge of evacuation and appropriate terms eg. billeting officer, host family, evacuation, evacuee.

Basic Skills

Sequencing, cloze procedure, reforming text, deduction, discussion.

Specific Resources

Four evacuees are profiled and include biographies, extracts from their experiences, photographs and activity sheets.

Learning Objectives

To understand how the lives of people were altered as a result of the war.

Learning Activities

Look at photographs and written evidence of activities during the war and how that might have differed in peace time.

Discuss rationing, why it was needed and the diet of people during the war and compare it with the present day.

Basic Skills

Look at recipes published during wartime.

Study ration books and calculate different allowances.

Weigh foods to understand how wartime children ate.

Specific Resources

Ration books (not included in this pack).

Newspaper article ‘Economical Feeding. No.1 for Children’

Evacuee accounts of Phyl Jones and Scott Bannister.