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World War Two: Home Front

Key Stage 1 & 2

Portland Basin Museum

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What's Involved

Timings: 2 hour facilitated workshop (timings may be adjusted slightly eg. for full day bookings)

Venue: Portland Basin Museum

Costs: £111.50 for TMBC schools / £122 for non-TMBC schools

 

Meet a member of the Home Guard or Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) and experience what life was like for families in England during the Second World War. Through role play and activities, explore everyday life including evacuation and rationing, and even make a tasty wartime snack!

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Undertake activities to understand the abrupt changes brought about by war, like the evacuee programmes, blackouts and AirRaid Precautions including gas masks. Find out what food rationing meant for meals and consider the need to ‘make do and mend’. Led by a costumed facilitator in character, participants will work together, enact, enquire, empathise and problem solve their way through WW2 at home.

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Your group will split and swap over to ensure a quality experience for everyone. Participants will also get hands on with our ‘history mystery’ objects to investigate changes over time. Explore the past, compare with the present and imagine the future using our Then, Now, Wow worksheet and resources. We provide everything your group will need to take part.

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Learning Opportunities

  • Identify and discuss what it was like to be an evacuee during world war two
  • Explain rationing, why blackouts were important and the role of the arp warden
  • Undertake research for a local history or thematic study
  • Reflect on healthy lifestyles, mental health - different feelings humans can experience, keeping safe

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Extend Your Experience

At the museum - you can book to combine with a second workshop for afull day experience.

In your school - before or after your visit, why not book to borrow aMuseum in a Box

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Venue Information

This workshop is delivered at Portland Basin Museum:

  • There is free onsite parking for coaches –please note the car park has a cobbled surface.
  • Please let us know if you would like yourclass to eat lunch at the museum and we will provide you with a space.
  • There is a museum shop where your class iswelcome to make purchases under supervision or we can arrange goody bags inadvance.
  • A site risk assessment is available on request. 

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