WW2 - Evacuees - Suitable for Upper Primary/Lower Secondary
This topic is a series of 7 lessons looking at different aspects of the experiences during the child evacuations of WW2.
KEY SKILLS - Watching & Listening, Class Discussion, Small Group Mime, Spotlighting Technique/Cross Cutting, Timing, Writing Wall Graffiti To Represent Thoughts, Tableau, Individual Mime & Facial Expressions To Show Emotion, Thought Tapping, Responding To Given Written Scenarios, Still Images, Group Mime Guessing A Scenario, Whole Class Raw Improvisation, For and Against Arguments – Written Piece, Conscience Alley, Building Atmosphere, Whole Class Mime & Movement, Listening For Music Cues, Listening To Recorded Conversation Scripting, Rehearsing and Performance, Whole Class Mime, Point of Tension, First Impressions, Writing Postcards, Writing A Diary Entry, Reaction To An Invasion of Privacy, Reaction To Criticism, Hot Seating, Sequence of Tableaux, Adding Titles to Tableaux, Creating Drawings From The Tableaux, Adding Titles and Descriptions to the Drawings, Letter Writing, Reading & Writing Responses To Letters, Mime Scenes Observation, Feedback.
This will work best alongside a class topic so that students can draw on their learning within their scenes.
We focus on the reasons for evacuation and emotions of the families on both sides of the experience – the people in the towns and also the host families. We also look at what issues the characters face in getting along with each other and potential conflicts as everyone tries to adapt to the situation they find themselves in.
The final lessons consider reflections on the Evacuee Programme and then how evacuees now as adults might want to look back and remember this unusual but important time and perhaps re-connect with their host families to reminisce.
EVACUEES FEEDBACK
"This content was very suitable for P6 pupils and accessible to all pupils. The video instructions, subtitles and background screens helped to remove any barriers to learning. The children found the milking of the cow demonstration quite funny but this gave them the confidence to throw themselves into the drama activity.
The children engaged really well with the follow-up activities and then moved on to write an extended piece of writing after each lesson.
The children's favourite follow-up activity was the drawing of the air raid shelter with cartoon style speech and thought bubbles to explore the emotions and back stories of each person.
We covered a variety of writing techniques including diary writing and letter writing.
I have attached pictures of writing examples and a writing display which I created for parents' evening." A Digman, Markinch PS
"We really enjoyed all the lessons and was great for me as a non-drama expert to learn different techniques and for the class to engage in a different way of learning. The class were always excited when it came to drama time.
We have set time in day for literacy and a lot to cover so did find it harder to complete all literacy work.
They really enjoyed the follow drama tasks, hot seating was particularly popular. As a very chatty, noisy class, the mime was harder for them, but was a good challenge. Having a clear instruction and demonstration really helped with this."
C Burns, Dunbarton
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