Here's another report about last week's visitors.

Alan & Ivy

Year 6 had visitors come to class to talk to them about their experiences of evacuation. Alan is an 80 year old man who was evacuated to County Durham in 1940, and Ivy (his wife) lived in Maryport during the war in WW2.

Alan told us how to put on gasmasks, how to build Anderson shelters and that shrapnel can kill you. Everyone put on the gasmasks for 10-15 minutes each Friday during school time. Also he said that 1940 was a frightening time because the war began to get worse! They told us that the Germans bombed the aircraft factory to stop them building the planes to fight the Germans.

If incendiary bombs fell they would burn everything and that was the most popular bomb the Germans used. On the radio the Germans would broadcast where they were going to bomb, and they would begin by saying “Germany calling” 3 times. One day they said they were going to bomb Castle Street because it was the main street in Bristol. That was where Alan lived!

By Rosie-May  & Demi-Leigh (Yr6)