Goodnight Mr Tom

Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 6:16pm

Year 6 has been reading Goodnight Mr Tom- a story set during WWII and is about a boy, Willie Beech, who is evacuated from London and sent to live in the countryside with a Tom Oakley a grumpy old man.

We have also been researching about evacuation during the war and have found out lots of information:

• the operation was called "Pied Piper"
• one and a half million children were evacuated
• the childen were called evacuees
• they were sent to live with "host families"
• a billeting officer collected them from the train station and took them to their new homes
• the governement had to persuade mothers to send their children away fromthe cities as they were relucant to do so

Watch the clip below to see what it was like for families to be split up during the war...