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Our Digital Schools Sessions bring the museum to your classroom. Our free sessions are led by our team of Enablers and are broadcast using Microsoft Teams. Read our FAQs for further information about our sessions.
Title
Second World War: Meet the WAAF
Suitable for
Second level. P5-P7
Dates
Fri 10 Nov (fully booked)
Fri 1 Dec
Times
11:30
Length
25 mins
Cost
Sessions are free of charge and are available to UK-based schools only.
By the end of the session, we will have
understood how WAAF dressed and what their lives were like during the Second World War.
Description
Your pupils will discover how RAF East Fortune, now the site of the National Museum of Flight, was part of a network of defences for the east coast of Scotland through contemporary and modern photographs.
Our costumed interpreter will show your pupils how a member of the Women's Auxialiary Air Force would have dressed and discuss how they might have felt. From uniforms that might have made them feel proud to sheepskin jackets that kept them warm and helped them to be rescued, your pupils will study real and replica clothing.
This session also includes a number of items issued to pilots to help them escape if they were shot down over enemy territory, including escape boots that transformed into a civilian shoes, maps printed on silk that could be hidden in their braces, and a compass so small it would fit inside a button.
Curriculum links
SOC 2 –01a
SOC-2-03a
SOC 2-04a
Sustainable Development Goals:
4, 5
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