School Visit by Gislingham Primary School

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School Visit .. Gislingham C.E.V.C. Primary School .. 20th March 2018….

Children from the Gislingham CEVC Primary School visited on Tuesday 20th March 2018. The children were studying WWII.

The pupils were split into three groups which rotated through the three sets of activities throughout the day.

One group studied the Home Front when they have the chance to sit in our Anderson shelter with all the sound effects.

The second group rotated through the Link Trainer area where they took a ‘flight’ in one of our Flight Simulators.

The third group studied Evacuees where they got to handle and try on WWII artefacts. The groups that rotated through this study area took lots of photographs and hopefully we will be able to reproduce these when the school has had time to sort through them and send a few to the Museum.

As part of the WWII studies, the Museum has specially made replica gas masks for the children to try on if they wish. These masks do not contain asbestos (which was present in the original items), and they all try to save the baby with the baby’s respirator. They have 9 seconds to do this working on the old wartime chant of: ‘on in five stay alive, on in nine just in time’.

They loved it, and all seem to have had an enjoyable as well as an informative learning day.