Two 50 Word Stories

It all started with a screech filling my ears. Initially it was not my mum, but the bombs quickly descending to the Earth’s heart, making it skip a beat. Swiftly we all fled down to the soggy Anderson shelter. Then we all heard the deathly BOOM! From above. Goodbye Earth.

Suddenly there was a loud blast, I fell to the ground. What on Earth was that? I hauled myself to my feet and ran; the wind raged fiercely into my face like it was trying to get through. Then, without warning, the immense cathedral tumbled to the ground. Goodbye world.

By Michelle  (Yr6)

The Coventry Bombing

The sky was inflamed as the evening fell.

The planes started to rise from the distance.

Sirens sounded, panic struck. 

It was horror, it was destroyed,

My heart was no longer.

The city got worse as the bombs dropped down.

Fear on everybody’s faces.

We all ran down to the shelter, hoping we would live.

There in the shelter the ground was shaking

They were bombarding, bombs blasting, loud screaming, Death emerging, guns re-loading,

It was total madness.

People awakened from the shelter below and saw all the pillars of smoke.

The city centre was crumbled below our feet.

There was nothing left to live for.

Black smoke, destroyed buildings surrounding us,

The city was dead!

By Michelle (Yr6)

Alan and Ivy

On Tuesday 25 September Alan (an evacuee during the WW2) and Ivy (who lived in Maryport also during WW2) came into our school to talk about their experiences in the war. Alan told us about gas masks, ration books and being evacuated whereas Ivy told us about life in Maryport. Ivy told us about the time when a German bomber  fired and missed an aerodrome hiding Spitfires in Silloth. The bomber needed to get rid of all of its bombs so he dropped them on the nearest town which was Maryport. The bombs destroyed Ivy’s school and most of Main Street.

Alan was evacuated from Bristol when he was 8 to live with his grandparents in Teesdale, Durham, for 4 years. He was evacuated with his sister. His sister was only 4 so their grandparents’ farm was like home.  

Mr Bishop had a gas mask and Alan told us how important it was to have it with you all the time. It had a small tube on the front of it, no longer than 10 cm and a piece of shiny plastic and he said he liked making rude noises with it.

He also said that in school in those days they had a gas mask practice every Friday. Then Alan told us that because the people had their gas masks the Germans made even more toxic gas. So the people who had the gas masks then made an extra piece that was blue to protect them from the toxic gas.

He also talked about a ration book which contained coupons that shopkeepers cut out or signed when people bought food and other items.

Alan and Ivy helped increase our knowledge of WW2. We will be using this knowledge to write poems and memoirs.

Thank you Alan and Ivy.

Alan and Ivy

Alan talking about his boyhood as an evacuee

Michelle and Grace, Ivy and Alan 

By Grace & Michelle (Yr6)