CHILDREN from Langley Fitzurse Primary School took a step back in time when they visited the Steam Museum in Swindon dressed as evacuees from the Second World War.

The Year 5 and 6 pupils visited the museum last Wednesday and took part in the We’ll Meet Again event, which runs twice a year.

The exhibition takes people and children back to the 1940s during the Second World War, allowing them to handle artefacts and authentic costumes and uniforms.

Class teacher Linda Hunter-Henderson said: “It is a wonderful opportunity for our children, and really brings our Second World War learning to life.”

“We’re covering the national curriculum but we want to get the real experiences into the classroom.

“We’re going to get visitors coming in, villagers where we set up a question and answer session and they talk about their experiences during the war.”

At the We’ll Meet Again exhibition there are five interactive workshops which offer diverse learning opportunities, including role-play, simulation, story-telling, dressing up, speaking, listening and questioning, empathy, observation, imagination and reflection.

The 28 children from the Wiltshire school got the chance to take part in a number of events, including a realistic air raid, complete with the sounds of bombs being dropped and a chance to play with the toys of the period.

They also had the chance to chat with someone who was a child during the war, plus a re-enactment of one family’s wartime experience, complete with role play and costumes.