CHILDREN in Forms 1 and 2 at St Benedict’s Junior School, Ealing, began the autumn term with a trip to The Forties Experience in Bushey, travelling back in time to the days of the Blitz.

It made a vivid start to their WW2 topic, We’ll Meet Again.

There could be no better introduction to the language and themes of the topic than crawling into an Anderson Shelter, dressing up in 40s clothes and listening to an air-raid siren.

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The children explored a 1940s house and did some washing using a washboard and a mangle.

They also got the chance to ‘dig for victory’ in the garden, and used hand pumps to put out a fire caused by a bomb.