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First Steps in Drama

Primary Drama: Key Stage 2

Learning: Primary

Primary school drama activities and teaching resources for Key Stage 2 pupils aged 7-11.

Primary Drama: Key Stage 2 offers simple-to-use drama resources for primary school children aged 7 to 11 which are linked to popular curriculum topics. The drama sessions are intended to be easy for non-specialist teachers to use, providing opportunities to extend classroom work through the exciting possibilities offered by drama activities. Each session has a carefully balanced mix of movement, speaking and listening activities and role play. The Teachers' Notes include clear instructions for how teachers can effectively organise and deliver the drama activities in each session.

Primary Drama: Key Stage 2: It's a lovely day...tomorrow: 2. Life in the country

Life in the country

2. Life in the country

It's a lovely day...tomorrow

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Ella and Harry learn about their grandmother's evacuation during the War.

Ella and Harry learn how their grandmother Ruby and her brother Billy were evacuated to the countryside during World War 2.

Ella and Harry continue to bring to life their great-grandmother's diary from 1941. The children have been evacuated and the train brings them to a country village, where the process of finding homes for the evacuees begins.

The children are chosen by Mrs Bigglestone, who lives on a farm. The children have no prior experience of living on a farm and the animals are a cause of anxiety to them.

The children's mother makes a rare visit to see them at the farm. But when she fails to arrive for her next scheduled visit Billy becomes convinced she has been hurt in an air raid. He determines to run away home and find out what has happened to his mother.

Primary Drama: Key Stage 2: It's a lovely day...tomorrow

Two children are evacuated in World War 2.

A story about what happens to a brother and sister evacuated during World War 2.

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It's a lovely day...tomorrow

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