SCHOOL NEWS: Spiffing time at Fleet Air Arm Museum

MORE than 100 children from Neroche Primary School near Ilminster were evacuated from the school after listening to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s broadcast that our country was “Now at war with Germany.”

To begin the Junior’s Second World War topic, all of the children and staff from Years 3 to Year 6, made gas mask cases and dressed up in 1939 period dress for the school’s “evacuation” to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton.

During the day the children handled artefacts and gained a huge amount of knowledge from the museum’s superb education staff.

Oliver, from Year 6, said: “It felt really strange pretending to be evacuated. The children who were actually evacuated must have been really confused about what was going to happen to them.”

Connel Boyle, headteacher of Neroche School based at Broadway, said: “Seeing our staff dressed in 1930s dress was spiffing! The children and our parents really made a huge effort to support this exciting trip to begin our topic.

“As a result of the children being so inspired by the day, the writing produced in the school, which culminated in creating newspapers reporting the start of World War 2 was exceptional. I cannot wait to see the children share their 1940s dance routines with their parents at our topic assembly later in the year.”

PHOTO – TOP: Some of the children dressed in clothes worn by youngsters during the Second World War of 1939-45.

PHOTO – ABOVE: Year Six teaching team looking “spiffing!”

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