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A Different Kind of Spring – DHFS Projects Year 9 History Home Front Project A Different Kind of Spring – DHFS Projects Year 9 History Home Front Project This certainly is a different kind of spring but learning never stops and we take pride in what we produce! To make your learning at home more flexible we are moving away from you learning in a series of hour-long lessons to a series of projects that will be undertaken over several weeks. This will allow you to develop your independence, resilience, responsibility and reflection while focusing on a smaller number of large projects. It will be important that you can confidently discuss your learning with others in your home including parents or carers. This is a really exciting opportunity for you to be creative and really show your best. Title of the project Project completion deadline What was life like for civilians during World War II? Friday 22/5/20 (at least 5 hours of time) What does this project involve? Your task is to produce a learning resource that will help Y6 students learn about what life was like for people living in the UK at the time of World War II - 1939-45. Your work must also include some activities that will test the learning of the.Y6 students (for example a word search, questions, fill in the blanks task, true or false task, definitions task) You can present your information in any of the following ways - • a pamphlet • a written or typed report • a large poster • a PowerPoint What does your project need to include to show your Which part of the National Curriculum does How would we like you to involve your parents and carers in best? this project link to? this project? • Descriptions of what government projects affected Understanding the connections between local, Talk to them about what you have found out. civilians in the UK (evacuation and rationing) regional, national and international history and Ask if any older family members have stories of WWII that you • Explanations of why certain government projects between cultural, military and social history. could include. were introduced (for example evacuation and You could watch documentaries together. rationing). • The positive and negative consequences of What vocabulary (key terms) do we want you What resources might help you as a starting point (e.g. books, government projects. to confidently be using within your project? films, articles, etc.)? Include extra research to give yourself • Explanations of how enemy bombing affected Battle of Britain, bombing, effects, evacuation, the edge. civilians. consequence, health, the home front, London • Explanations of how life changed for people. blitz, Luftwaffe, NHS, phony war, poverty, See the Sheffield Blitz information on the following slides. • Explanation of how the government changed its Sheffield blitz and Use internet searches to find your own information based attitude to wards caring for people after WWII. Rationing around the key vocabulary. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zk94jxs/resources/1 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=evacuation+ and+rationing+doc Success with Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjKODQYYfg Sheffield and the blitz • The Blitz was a German attack on Britain using bombs dropped from planes. The purpose of these bombing raids was to destroy factories that were producing bombs, tanks and planes. They were also used to kill civilians in the hope that the British public would demand that the Government stop the war. • Sheffield was major target in German blitz: Sheffield was important to the British war effort because its factories made everything from bullets to tank armour. • Sheffield factories also made components for the Spitfire aircraft. The "Steel City" became a target of German bombing. Sheffield and the blitz • The Sheffield blitz occurred on the nights of December 12 and 15, 1940. More than 660 people were killed and nearly 80,000 buildings damaged. • The bombs fell on the city centre rather than the steelworks, which remained largely untouched. Though many civilians took cover in Anderson shelters, some were killed while sheltering in basements, most tragically in the Marples Hotel. The bombing of the Marples Hotel • The first warning of the raid came at seven o'clock on a cold and clear winter's evening and as the night wore on the intensity of the raid grew especially in the city centre area. • At 10.50 p.m. C&A Modes department store which lay opposite the Marples on High Street received a direct hit. The bombing of the Marples Hotel • Flying debris from the explosion crashed into the Marples pub injuring a number of customers who were taken down into the cellars to receive attention for their injuries. • At 11.44 p.m. fifty four minutes after the explosion at C & A's, a German high explosive bomb completely demolished the building. William Reading said "When I rushed outside I saw that the Marples building had been hit, the building had collapsed and where it had stood was a heap of rubble fifteen high" The death toll • We can never know for certain how many people died in the explosion that devastated Marples. • Over the following weeks 64 bodies were recovered from the rubble and the partial remains of six or seven other people were also identified. • The remainder were identified through their personal belongings that had with them when they died. The most accurate estimate is that 77 people were in Marples at the time of the explosion and 70 died as a result of the injuries they received. It was without doubt the worst single incident for loss of life in Sheffield during the whole war. Surrey Street Stokes paint factory direct hit May 1941 At the height of the blaze Edward Riley never recovered from this trauma and committed suicide in 1943. Rescue for just 7 survivors The ruins of the Marples Hotel The clearance of the site took many weeks. It was estimated that over one thousand tons of rubble had to be removed from the site before it was cleared. In common with many bomb-sites where lives were lost, the ground was covered with quicklime - quicklime is used in epidemics, plagues, and disasters to disintegrate bodies in order to help fight the spread of disease. It also helps to neutralize the smell emanating from any uncovered remains. The site lay derelict for nineteen years. This is a photograph that was taken in 1950 that still shows the damage that occurred ten years earlier. The cleared area to the left of the gutted building is where the Marples once stood.
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