Primary Sevens Evacuation Day
On Friday 1 st
February all present primary sevens went along to Muir Memorial Church Hall for our evacuation day. We went along for the experience of being a 1930s evacuee, also for more information about our topic World War II.
Before our evacuation day we made suitcases with what we would take if we were evacuated. We also prepared by starting to read “Goodnight Mister Tom” a novel about a young evacuee called Willie Beech whom is evacuated to the country. Adding to our preparation we made a “Guide to Evacuate your Child Safely” leaflet for the parents of the soon to be evacuees.
First of all we saw a PowerPoint about evacuation made by Mr Taylor. The PowerPoint personally interested me as he explained each slide to us. On the PowerPoint was a picture of him and another evacuee on a beach were they were evacuated, in the picture Mr Taylor was just a bit older than us.
Following the recent PowerPoint by Mr Taylor, Mr Buchen split us up into five groups to explore the different stations.
Subsequently Mr Buchens command we went to our first group, ours was the inspection from Mr Buchan and Mrs Smith. They were very strict. They asked questions like: What did your
Mum and Dad say when you left, Show me your nails, Are you with anyone, Did you and them get split up, How do you feel about this. It was really realistic.
Next up was Mr Taylor’s station. It was a question asking station. He got evacuated, but not for long. He went back and forth on the weekends. He went with his younger brother and mum because of the age of his little brother. Shockingly the family that took them in were mean to them by telling them they could only go in certain areas of the house. Mr Taylor grew up next to animals working on a small sort of form back in the city for a job, but the family would not let them even go near a cow, let alone milk one. Therefore Mr Taylor’s family did not like them back and were back in the city before you could say World War II.
After a while we moved on to Mr McChesney’s table, on the table was a vast variety of interesting artefacts. There were three ration books, one green for babies, one blue for a child up to the age of about 16 and one buff for adults. There was an old lighter which was about the height of a water bottle (about 20cm), gold, heavy and it kind of smelt of oil. Perched on the table was a gas alarm which gave of a defining noise, the A.R.P wardings used to ring it when there was a gas attack to warn people about it so that they knew to put on their gas masks. He also showed us a make-up tin that an air force lady would get. You opened it up and it would be a mirror at the top and blusher at the bottom. There was also two fake granades which were really cool. I wondered were you would get two fake granades. It was so interesting.
Then we moved on to Ms Burns were it was old newspapers and two gasmask models. Ms
Burn took pictures of us as well and they are now on the wall in front of my peg. We were not allowed to try on the gas masks (not real gas masks) but were allowed to hold them. The newspapers were really knowledgeable and factful. There was evacuation leaflets and posters

amongst the papers as well. I learned that the government put happy children on posters saying thing along the lines of “it is like a holiday” to promote the whole evacuation situation.
Eventually we moved on to our last table Mrs Taylor’s table. We were sat an enormous amount of medals. She passed around some pictures of gas masks, cow and gate baby food next to a babys rahin book. Next up was showing us medals an ansester earned. There was so many medals.
Astonishingly I looked at them bewildered. I didn’t think one man could earn so many medals. She showed us a sheet of paper that she had printed off of the internet which showed loads of medals with the names of them under the picture. Some weren’t on the sheet and tones were, it was impressive.
Later on we had some juice and biscuits, I think it was to make up for our play time as we didn’t have one. Then we went back to school.
In conclusion our evacuation day was a really great experience over all and if I had to round it up in one word it would be fascinating. I was so engrossed with every station there. I recommend to do this with all the future P7’s and they will come back knowing at least 60% of their WWII knowledge. Great Day.

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