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Gateshead City Learning Centre – WW2 Sessions
We explore the Wilkinson’s disaster through the context of the Home Front and the Tyneside Blitz, using eye-witness and survivor testimony and archival resources. Children get to handle actual and replica ARP and wartime objects. They get to create a propaganda poster or wartime comic, produce and present a radio report or conduct a tv interview with role-play survivors using green screen technologies.
Suitability
Years: 4/5/6
Duration
Morning Session: 9.30-12.00
Technologies
2Simple, Crazy Talk, Comic Life, Web TV, Web Radio
Cost
Gateshead Schools – Free
Non Gateshead Schools – £100 per class (30 children)
To book this session please call Gateshead CLC on 0191 460 2900
Other Sessions
Venue: Discovery Museum | School/Gateshead CLC (by arrangement)
Tyne and Wear Archives: World War II – The Home Front
What was life like for ordinary people during the Second World War? What impact did evacuation have on children? What was it like to live through an air raid? The answers to these questions are explored through the rich archival sources held by the service.
Nazi propaganda
An evaluation of Nazi propaganda through images of Adolf Hitler presented to the German people in the 1930s. Smiling Hitler, Hitler with dogs, Hitler and children, Hitler the worker, Hitler the military leader – it’s all in the archives.
Wilkinson’s Disaster
Investigate the original Civil Defence records for the Wilkinson’s Disaster and evaluate the impact of the disaster on the local community.
Archives session can be delivered in the Archives Education Room in Discovery Museum or in your school. Both are suitable for KS2 & 3 children. Currently education visits are free and each session last around 90 minutes.
Book by email with peter.hepplewhite@twmuseums.org.uk
Tel: (0191) 2772243