RAF museum

Hello and welcome back to my blog!

RAF museum 

I went on a trip to the RAF museum last week with school. It was a really fun trip. Here is a map to show you exactly where we went to: Map of the RAF Museum

We met an air raid warden who told us all about his job. We also got to experience an actual air-raid. I wasn't scared by it because I knew it was fake, but it was really interesting to see what it might have been like to live during the Blitz.

Here is a link to the website if you are interested to know more about the museum

RAF museum

I was particulalry interested in the R240 Bomber plane. It was made even before WW1 started, but was used lots during both wars! This video tells you a little bit more about it Video of R240 Bomber plane.

This other video also shows you what the plane might have looked like when it was being flown. Pretty cool huh

Test Flight

Propaganda poster

We have also been learning about propaganda posters during the war.

We started making our own. Hopefully next week I can put mine on this blog so you can all see it!


Thanks for reading! I'll see you next time.

Dblogger

My family in the war

Welcome to my blog!

Our class topic this term is WW2. I have been learning about children living in the Blitz and what life was like between 1939-1945. I am writing this blog to share all the interesting WW2 facts, stories and trips I have been on.

Family

I have been told lots of stories by my family about the role my grandma and grandpa played in during WW2. 

My grandpa was 11 years old when the war first began in 1939. He was evacuated with his little brother out of London to the countryside, where they stayed with a friendly family in a small town.When my grandpa was 16 he began training as a pilot for the RAF. Luckily, the war ended on the 8th May 1945, 2 months before he finished his training as a pilot. I am glad he did not have to go and fight!

During the war my grandma worked in an orphanage. She had to cook for lots of children using small amounts of food because of rationing. She also told me that at night time she would have to go outside with a bucket of water to put out incendary bombs (bombs that start fires) that dropped near the orphanage. She was a fire guard.


Thanks for reading everyone.

Dblogger