We dressed up as evacuees for our World War 2 Tea Party	Fergus' Granny and Grandpa came in. They showed us a tea towel that looked like a ration book	Mrs Ruby (Mrs Young's Mother) showed us lots of interesting pictures.	This is a photo of a map which shows where V1 and V2 bombs were dropped in Kent. Hector and his wife told us all about it.	Hector told us about his experiences as an evacuee during WW2.
Sarah's Granny told us about some of the food they ate during the war. You ate what you were given!	Fergus and Kyle found the story about the flying doodlebug interesting.	Taylor, Stuart and Grant listening to Marigold tell them about her experiences during the war.	Fergus' Granny's tea towel. It was a picture of a ration book.

We (P5-7) decided that we would like to hold a World War 2 Tea Party. 
We wrote invitations and sent them to people (either family or friends) who were alive during World War 2.  Next, we made Union Jack Bunting to decorate our classroom.  Then we made all the food - carrot jam, carrot cookies, egg-less cake, rock buns and carrot jam sandwiches! 
On the day we put all the food on the tables and labelled them so people knew what they were.  We had tea and coffee ready for our visitors and juice for us.   We were very grateful for so many people turning up, including Hector and his wife, Sarah's Granny (Marigold), Mrs Young and Mrs Young's Mother (Mrs Ruby) and Fergus' Granny and Grandpa. 
We heard some sad memories including stories of evacuees and family members dying in the fighting but we also heard some fun memories including Mrs Ruby's dog who had a sixth sense and knew when an air raid was coming.  He was always first to be in the Morrison Shelter!  Fergus' Grandpa told us that after an air-raid he went out with his friends and got the gun powder out of the bombs (his parents didn't know about this) and he kept the bomb shell in his garden shed.  He said all the boys in WW2 were fascinated by the bombs.  Fergus' Granny lived on Skye during the war and she told us that they ate a lot of fish (given to her by the local fisherman).  She thought that they ate a lot better than those in the city because rationing didn't affect them so much.  Marigold told us about 'make do and mend' and how she lived in the country too and grew lots of vegetables.  She also thought those in the country weren't so badly affected by the war as those in the cities. 
Everyone seemed to enjoy the food, in particular Fergus, who ate egg-less cake at every table he went to!  We finished the party with some singing - Run, Rabbit, Run, Cheerio and Side by Side. 
We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who came to the party - we really appreciated hearing your stories.