World War Two: Operation Pied Piper

Prepare to be evacuated! Make your own gas mask box and ID card, explore the impact the war would have had on your life, and discover how the railways helped the war effort.

Curriculum Links - KS2

History

Chronological understanding
1. Pupils should be taught to:
a. place events, people and changes into correct periods of time
b. use dates and vocabulary relating to the passing of time, including ancient, modern, BC, AD, century and decade.

Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past
2. Pupils should be taught:
a. about characteristic features of the periods and societies studied, including the ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of men, women and children in the past
b. about the social, cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of the societies studied, in Britain and the wider world
c. to identify and describe reasons for, and results of, historical events, situations, and changes in the periods studied
d. to describe and make links between the main events, situations and changes within and across the different periods and societies studied.

Britain since 1930
11b. A study of the impact of the Second World War or social and technological changes that have taken place since 1930, on the lives of men, women and children from different sections of society.