Braintree Museum - Year 6

On Tuesday, year 6 spent an eventful and educational day at the Braintree Museum. Dressed for the occasion, we re-lived the experience of wartime evacuees and discovered the hardships of life during World War II. The children were 'treated' to an authentic classroom session with a very strict teacher, where they improved their handwriting, solved calculations using 'old' money and practised reacting promptly in an air-raid drill. An object handling workshop allowed the children the opportunity to try on original wartime uniforms and examine a wide variety of World War II artefacts including ration books, pieces of bombs, a parachute, tinned dried eggs and even 1940's toilet paper!


It was a very busy day, where everybody developed their historical understanding and had a lot of fun too.