Air Raid Disaster! – Bring it into your Classroom!
Key Stage 2 – History, Local History, Creative Writing
Air Raid Disaster! is a multimedia exploration of one of the most notorious Blitz bombings during WW2.
Delivered by site curator Peter Bolger* and author/teacher Peter Hepplewhite** this interactive session allows children to get an in-depth understanding of the Wilkinson’s Lemonade Factory disaster in the wider context of the Tyneside Blitz and Home Front/Civil Defence.
Children get to see and handle a range of vintage and reproduction ARP objects and through this are encouraged to ask questions and develop their awareness of the period.
Sessions can be bespoke to each school and can contain ICT and literacy activities to complement classroom work. Examples of such activities include; following a web trail, creating wartime radio broadcasts, designing a propaganda poster, creating a 1940s children’s comic using photos and much more…
more information: info@northshields173.org
Fees: £350 per day = 2 x 2 hour sessions. Travel costs by arrangement.
Related activities are dependent upon required software being on the school network.
* Peter Bolger is an escaped librarian and has worked developing blogs in schools and classrooms for the past decade. He recently appeared on BBC 2’s “How We Won The War” as an expert on the Wilkinson’s disaster.
** Peter Hepplewhite is the co-author of the very first Horrible Histories book (Awesome Egyptians) and has published over 50 history books for young people.