In language today we discussed the feelings of children who were evacuated during the war, and other people that the evacuation affected.

We used some real life recollections of evacuees and and their foster families as a starting point. Our task was to create a role play about a certain situation:
Evacuees parting from their families at the railway station.
Waiting to be picked by a foster family.
An evacuees first meal with their foster family.
Can you tell which scenarios these children are performing?

We were then given a short time to improvise a role play about our chosen situation.
Our SUCCESS CRITERIA was to present a short, well structured play, including relevant facts, information and especially the emotions involved.

These plays will help us in our language task this week, which is to write a short story showing empathy and understanding of the emotions involved.
The children agreed that this was a good way to provoke thought about the emotions and problems involved when children were evacuated. They also thought that it was a good way to think about the structure of their story.