All About Me History Week

This week we learned about life as a child in the 1950s.  We met 'Great Aunt Margaret' who told us all about her childhood, teaching us some of the games they would play in the road (!) and on the playground at school.  She showed us a pound note and an old map of London with no motorways at all.  We looked at some very old photographs and talked about the fashion, she even taught us how to tie bows in the girls hair.  She asked us what we would do without our iPads, computer games and telephones.  Also, what we would have done to get the doctor out without a mobile phone.  We looked at telephone booths, old games and toys, 1950s cars, the Queen's coronation, old gramophones and we even got to listen to her favourite 1950s music! She showed us an old Christmas stocking (just her Mum's real stockings cut up) and what was inside.  We thought the clementine was especially kind of Father Christmas, because Great Aunt Margaret told us that in those days everything was rationed and that clementines were a luxury as they came on the ships. Great fun was had by all and we look forward to hearing all the show and tell interviews on Monday!