VE Day 2020 - Longdean School

VE Day 2020

Recipes

Try these VE day
recipes, including
one from Bake
Off’s Prue Leith

History lessons with Dan
   Snow
Historian and broadcaster Dan Snow will host
history lessons for children from Monday 4th May. At
4pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Dan will
host a History Hit live on YouTube’s Timeline
channel that will focus on a different aspect of the
Second World War and aim to teach the public about
the importance of VE Day.

He has also created
 Dan Snow's VE Day Challenge
to get your creativity flowing
(entries due by 6th May!)

Make your own
 bunting

You can make your own special VE day bunting to display
at home.
You can decorate your bunting with pictures of whatever
inspires you, whether it’s those who fought on the
frontline or worked hard on the Homefront, or whether it’s
a celebration of enduring peace or your own personal hero.
Hang your bunting with pride over the weekend of Friday
8 May - Sunday 10 May and make sure you share your
pictures with us at Longdean and on social media using
the hashtags #GreatBritishBunting, #VEDay75 and
#BBCMakeaDifference

Posters
Print your own VE Day Posters and colour
them in or personalise them with a dedicated
message and display them in your windows.

Or how about colouring in one of these lego
heroes?

Why not take a photo of
yourself making the
famous ‘V for Victory’
sign as shown in the
picture?

Hair and makeup
            Whilst you are joining in
            celebrations why not look
            the part?

            Try out this 1940's
            makeup tutorial or learn
            how to do your hair with
            this Victory rolls tutorial.

VE Day Playlist

Want to know the
kind of music people
would be celebrating
to?
Have a listen here.

Nationwide
    Singalong

The Queen will give a speech on TV to mark the
occasion on Friday 8th May at 9pm (the same time
that her father King George VI addressed the nation
on VE Day 1945.) At the end of the speech she is
asking everyone to open their doors and windows and
sing along to “We’ll Meet Again” by Dame Vera Lynn.

Learn the words and tune here.

Captain
                             Tom

Whilst we are celebrating VE Day it is worth
remembering the Nation’s hero Captain Tom
Moore who is a WW2 Veteran and recently
raised over £30 million for NHS charities by
walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th
Birthday.

1940s Games
• During WW2, children played many different games, both in
  groups and individually. Children commonly played games like
  hop scotch, jump rope, chess together, as well as all types of ball
  games.
• Young children loved to play marbles, play school and house, and
  played with cars or dolls. Kids in the neighbourhood loved playing
  games out on the street such as, "Red Light Green Light".
• Board games were popular like Monopoly, Scrabble and Dominoes.
• Cards were a really big hit like Rummy and Solitaire.
• Turns out Miss Keith and Miss Elms’ favourite game Spoons was
  also really popular at this time!

1940s Dance   Party like it’s 1945!

                Why not learn the
                 Charleston, the
              Jitterbug or to Swing
                     Dance?

              Or be inspired by this
                  Strictly Come
                 Dancing 1940s
                     routine!

Check out your own family
   history!
The Government and Ancestry are
working together to encourage the
public to join together in
commemorating VE Day by discovering
their own connection to the Second
World War. As part of this, all UK
historical records available on
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ will be free
for the public from Monday 4 May until
Sunday 10 May, giving people the
opportunity to uncover the personal
stories of the Second World War and
the roles their families played.

8 th    May schedule
• The BBC will broadcast two special programmes
 on BBC One to mark VE 75 which will be shown
 at 14:45 – 15:45 and 20:00 - 21:10.
• At 11am there will be a 2 minutes silence.
• 2.45pm - The Announcement of Victory: a special
   tribute to the veterans, including extracts from
  Winston Churchill’s victory speech, a speech by the Prime
  Minister and readings by famous faces.
• 7pm – ‘VE Day the Lost Films’ (Channel 5) The story of the
  celebrations on May 8, 1945, told through the eyewitness accounts
  and films of ordinary people.
• 8pm - To mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the BBC and the
  Royal British Legion honour and celebrate the Second World War
  generation in a programme featuring recollections from some
  those who remember this historic day. Popular songs of the era
  are performed by stars including Katherine Jenkins, Anton Du
  Beke and Beverley Knight.
• At 9pm the Queen will give a speech to the nation, followed by a
  nationwide singalong of “We’ll Meet Again.”
• ITV4 are showing WW2 movies between 2-6pm.

Please send in photos of your
 VE Day celebrations to Miss
       Keith or Miss Elms
c.keith@longdean.herts.sch.uk
               or
j.elms@longdean.herts.sch.uk
    between 8-10th May for
    display on social media.