BRITAIN IN THE 40'S

Playscripts for ‘Britain in the 40s’
ISBN: 978 1 905637 41 6
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This book of four playscripts for children in Key Stage 2 is designed to support  children’s reading development alongside their studying the National Curriculum  topic of Britain during World War II and beyond.
           
It is ideal for children who enjoy the interaction of reading in a social group. Each play has a plot to engage the children’s interest as they learn about the enormous disturbances which the war brought  into people’s lives, and shows how they coped with it all. It is a useful cross-curricular resource for teachers for Literacy and History lessons.
                                               
'When can we go home?' This play explores the experience of war through the eyes of evacuees, coping with their family being forcibly split up, and the feelings of country people who were overwhelmed by their arrival. Children can see the change of lifestyle as people had to swop their clothes, produce their own vegetables and trudge down the garden to the Anderson shelter during the night as their city was blitzed.

In 'Blitzed', children can learn about the experiences of a young policeman on the beat, coping with helping people to the safety of a refuge and enforcing the law among his own neighbours, who want to make money out of the food shortages

In 'Nurse at War', a shy young woman  travels abroad and finds danger, but faces it with courage to come home with renewed confidence.

The fourth play, 'Windrush', gives an insight into the feelings of people who feared the changes as people came in boats from the Caribbean, as well as the anxieties of the people who came from abroad to build a new future for their families.