Our highly engaging and colourful Road To VE Day PowerPoint has been created to provide a stimulus for learning and reflection. Ready to use in the classroom or at an assembly. PowerPoint presentation.
Did you know children were encouraged to ‘knit for victory’ during WW2? Activities include making your own ‘Rag Rug’ and discovering what clothes you could buy with coupons book.
Find out why the British government introduced food rationing in 1940 and why everyone was told to grow fruit and vegetables in their gardens and local parks!
A Scottish child's view of WW2 & the Kindertransport
Hamish Cameron was evacuated from Glasgow to Ayr in 1939 as part of Operation Pied Piper. Learn about child evacuees, the Clydeside Blitz and the Kindertransport.
Celebrate Churchill’s famous VE Day speech given at Downing Street in 1945. Learners are encouraged to read the speech, and emulate this famous broadcast with one of their own.
Women were essential to the war effort on the Home Front during WW2. From working at munitions factories to flying unarmed planes, driving ambulances and code-breaking.