YOUNGSTERS at St Joseph’s RC Primary School in Devizes recently relived the dreadful days of the Second World War as they experienced what it was like to be an evacuee.
As part of the school’s World War Two topic, the 52 Year 5 and 6 children dressed as children in 1939 would have, complete with rationed packed lunches and cardboard gas mask boxes, and walked together to Station Road in Devizes to board a coach.
The coach took them to the Steam Museum in Swindon where the staff there made the experience as authentic as possible.
Class teacher Lynn Salter said: “One of the staff acted as billeting officer and told each child who they would be going to live with.
“The parents had done a wonderful job in dressing the children in authentic clothes of the time and sending notes to the people who would be looking after them, like “please look after my child,” or “she is very good at sweeping the hearth.”
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