World War Two Loans Box
KS2
History | English | Design & Technology
Loan period: Half a term
Enrich your students’ understanding of rationing, the Dig for Victory campaign, the Blitz in Coventry and the role of the British Empire in WW2 through this cross-curricular object handling loans box.
Students will have the opportunity to handle genuine and replica artefacts from the museum’s collection. Also included in the box is a teacher’s guide with information on each object, a safe object handling guide and suggested activities.
Teacher notes:
This loans box is ideal for Key Stage 2 History studies of World War Two
This loans box can also support a Key Stage 2 local history study
List of objects in the loans box: 
- Food rationing books
- Motor rationing book
- Replica food
- Make do and mend booklet
- WW2 food recipe
- WW2 propaganda posters
- ARP rattle
- ARP whistle
- Gas mask and gas mask bag
- ARP warden helmet
- Incendiary bomb
- Photos of bomb shelters
- Map of Coventry
- Protection Against Your Home from Air Raids booklet
- WW2 Sound Effects CD
- Victoria Crosses
- Fact cards on medal winners
To book, please download the Museum Loans Box booking form (Word).
Fill in the form by selecting the box(es) you would like to order.
Return by email to: ctm.info@cvlife.co.uk
| Curriculum Links |
Learning Outcomes |
| History |
- Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources
- Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods
- Learn about a significant turning point in British history
- Know about significant historical events, people and places in their own locality
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| English |
- Participate in discussions and role play
- Draft and write narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
- Plan and write compositions identifying the audience for, and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models of pupils’ own
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| Art |
- Produce creative work, exploring different ideas and recording their experiences
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| Science |
- Explore the way light behaves, including recognising that light is needed in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light
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| Maths |
- Understand and use approximate equivalences between metric units and common imperial units such as pounds and pints
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| Geography |
- Locate the world’s countries using maps
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To book, please complete an
Enquiry Form
that will be processed by our team. For enquiries, please email ctm.info@cvlife.co.uk or call 02476237521.
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