Teacher guide · Confidence Lab · Harder · about 35 min

📻 Life on the Home Front

Pupils practise curiosity and real life thinking through "Life on the Home Front": Rationing, evacuees and the Blitz.

Lesson guide

1. 1. Hook · 5 min

   Show the 📻 mission title and read the opening: "Why were children evacuated?". Take three quick guesses.

2. 2. Model · 5 min

   Think aloud through the first step together. Use Echo the Parrot's line as your prompt: "Say it clearly — I'm listening."

3. 3. Do · 10 min

   Pairs work through the 4 steps on screen or on the printed sheet. Circulate and ask "why?"

4. 4. Discuss · 10 min

   Use two or three of the discussion questions. Ask pairs to share different answers, not just correct ones.

5. 5. Reflect · 5 min

   Exit ticket: one sentence on how they used curiosity today.

Discussion questions

• What was the hardest choice in "Life on the Home Front", and why?
• Why were children evacuated — explain your reasoning to a partner.
• What was rationing — explain your reasoning to a partner.
• Write a short letter home as an evacuee — explain your reasoning to a partner.
• Where could you use curiosity outside school this week?
• If you did this again, what would you change?

Adapting it

Support: Read prompts aloud, pair with a confident partner, and accept spoken or drawn answers for writing steps.

Stretch: Ask pupils to create their own extra step for a partner and explain the correct answer.

Curriculum links

• National Curriculum: History: chronology, sources and significant people and events
• National Curriculum: English: spoken language — articulate and justify answers
• PSHE: Relationships: communicating feelings and listening to others
• PSHE: Health & wellbeing: resilience and managing setbacks