WW2 Anderson Shelter session
Duration: half a day
Price: £3.50 per child
Lunch room provided
On the day children will:
Discuss what life was like in WW2
Discuss Coalhouse Fort and East Tilbury in WW2 and have a tour of the Fort.
Visit the Anderson shelter discuss how it is made
Discuss the types of materials used to make the shelter.
Draw and label a diagram of the Anderson Shelter to take back to school.
Act in role and experience what it would have been like to be in an Anderson Shelter during
a raid
Experience the Blitz and the procedure to take in an air raid.
Play WW2 games such as Beetle and Pass the Pack
Look closely and handle artefacts from WW2
Curriculum links
History
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence
similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw
contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own
structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
A local history study
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a study of an aspect of history or a site dating from a period beyond 1066 that is
significant in the locality.
Literacy
Speaking and Listening
Drama
Group Discussion and interaction