Year 5 were extremely excited to visit the Imperial War Museum Duxford to further extend their learning about events and conditions during World War Two. They were eager to see, and go inside, a real-life Anderson shelter and were surprised by just how small they were!
The children were really drawn to all of the WWII planes in the ‘Battle of Britain’ hangar and interested to find out more details about them and their impact in the war. Through an on-site workshop, they used this newfound knowledge to create their own documentaries on what particularly interested them.
Year 5 were also enthralled by the 4D ‘1940s Operations Room’ where they got to experience first-hand how it would have felt to see the ‘Dowding System’, of reporting sightings of Nazi plane positions and scrambling Allied fighter planes in response, in action.
