'The Evacuees' - Writing a postcard home

• Their postcards may have been read by their new families and they would certainly have been censored.
• Talk about how they would have been encouraged not to write anything negative in their postcards and why.
• Talk about censorship and why this was introduced.
• Distribute the postcards that you have downloaded and ask the children to write home as evacuees, using activities they experienced as evacuees on the railway.
• Ask the children to think about how their parents might react to their postcard.

Learning Objectives

To understand what it was like to be an evacuee during WWII

Key Concepts

• Empathy
• Imagination

Learning Outcomes

Writing a postcard home

Introduction

This session is designed to support the primary framework for literacy. It can be introduced as follow up work to a visit to the railway.

Resources

Click here to download your pdf postcard template

Lesson plan

• If you are using this as a post visit activity you can ask the children how they felt as evacuees.
• Make a list of words that described their feelings.