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It is 1940 and the government has issued you with the materials needed to build an Anderson Shelter. Radar signals have picked up signals suggesting that a German bombing raid will take place tonight. See how much of the shelter you can build by answering the following questions.

'Build An Anderson Shelter'

you have been given the job of doing the weekly shopping. When you find one of the items available for sale, click and drag it to the shopping bag. To take it home, you will need to answer a question correctly.

Good luck, your meals will depend on how well you do!

'Shopping In The War'>

Click on the link below to go shopping during wartime Britain. Use your ration book carefully to buy ingredients to make a meal for you and your family.

'Rationing Challenge'

Year 5 will shortly be making air-raid shelters as part of their Design & Technology work.

The work will be part of Y5s 'War and Peace' topic this half-term.

Mesh fruit bags will be cut-up and used to represent the wire mesh on the sides of the Morrison Shelters that the children make.

During the next few weeks we would be greatful if you could save any fruit bags that you might have and send them into school with your child.

Many thanks.

Mr Bailey and Miss Henry

Over the next two weeks Year 5 will be looking at the painting 'The Spirit of London' by Nettie Moon and will be doing artwork inspired by this painting.

This painting by Nettie Moon was entered and shown at the Spirit of London competition organised by the Greater London Council. Painted thirty-nine years after the beginning of the Blitz, it depicts some of the strongest impressions that most of us have of that period.

What do you think about this painting? Click on the 'comments' button below and let us know what you think.

Mr Bailey & Miss Henry

After war was declared in September 1939, the British government had to cut down on the amount of food it brought in from abroad as German submarines started bombing British supply ships. There was a worry that this would lead to shortages of food supplies in the shops and very high prices for what was left, making it very difficult for a lot of people to get enough to eat.

Rationing of food was introduced in January 1940. Everybody was issued with a ration book. This contained coupons that had to be handed in to the shops every time rationed food was bought. As well as the basic ration everybody had 16 coupons each month that they could spend on what they wished.

This made sure that everyone was able to buy and eat the basic food necessary to keep them fit and healthy. Bacon, butter and sugar were among the first things to be rationed. Some foods such as potatoes, fruit and fish were not rationed. People were able to buy these things, provided they could afford them and there were supplies in the shops.

The government tried to encourage people to grow their own food at home. The 'Dig for Victory' campaign, started in October 1939, was one of the most famous of the war. It encouraged people to use every spare piece of land, including their gardens, to grow vegetables.

The British government believed that some form of poison gas would be used on the civilian population during the Second World War. It was therefore decided to issue a gas masks to everyone living in Britain. By 1940 the government had issued 38 million gas masks.

Because of German bombing many children were moved out of big cities. They went to safer places in the countryside and small towns.

38000 children were evacuated during the war. Mothers with babies and old people were evacuated as well.

Some schools were evacuated as a group. They took teachers and pupils and carried on lessons in a new place.

Children were only allowed to take a few things with them when they were evacuated. They took a few clothes, some food and their gas masks. They had to wear name labels like the boy on the costume page.

Despite evacuation 219 school children were killed in the war.

Try using this website for some great information and pictures!
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Britain.html

Children of WW2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/

World War 2 Timeline:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/

Life at Home During WW2:
http://www.macksites.com/

World War Two Movies:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/war/

Childhood Memories of Evacuation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1162/

Click on the link below to download the PowerPoint template for the 'WW2 Interactive Big Book'

Download file: 'WW2 interactive Big Book'

In 1918, Germany lost World War One. It had to give up land and was banned from having armed forces.

In 1933 the German people voted for a leader named Adolf Hitler, who led a political party in Germany called the National Socialists or Nazis. Hitler promised to make his country great again and quickly began to arm Germany again and to seize land from other countries.

Shortly before 5am on Friday 1st September, 1939, German forces stormed the Polish frontier. Tanks and motorised troops raced into the country over ground, supported by Stuka dive bombers overhead. A total of 1.25 million Germans soldiers swept into Poland

For almost six years from 1939 to 1945 Britain fought the toughest war it had ever experienced. World War II was total war - every person, every business, every service was involved.

Britain did not fight alone, the war also involved many countries. World War II involved 61 countries with 1.7 billion people, three quaters of the world's population.

Fifty million people lost their lives and hundreds of millions people were injured.