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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: 3. Going home

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3. Going home

It's a lovely day...tomorrow

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Ella and Harry find out how Ruby and Billy return home during the War.

Ella and Harry learn how Billy returns home, convinced that his mother has been hurt, closely followed by Ruby.

Ella and Harry bring to life the final part of their great-grandparents' story from 1941. Ruby wakes in the morning to find that Billy has disappeared. She believes he is intending to run away home so she sets off in pursuit.

Ruby catches up with Billy at the train station and joins him on the train to make the journey home. When the children arrive they are horrified to see how badly their home town has been damaged by bombing.

They make their way to their own street, where they are initially held back by an air raid warden. But when the children are able to convince him that they believe their mother may be trapped in one of the houses the warden helps them to search through the wreckage of their home.

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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