D-Day80 from Thurrock Museum

How to use these resources:

1. If you need a recap of WW2, we recommend searching YouTube for quick videos suitable for children.
2. Share the PowerPoint with your class on your board
3. Print and hand out the ‘Real D-Day Stories’ for children to read
4. Ask the children to create artworks based on these stories

Next: Please scan and send the artworks to us. Contact details are included in the Teachers Notes.

Please include the name of your school and the age of the children.

For artworks to be judged, we ask that they are submitted before the 19th of April.

You can ask the children to put their first name on the front of the artwork OR include no names at all.

By sending us the artwork by **Friday 19th April 2024 **you will:

• Give us permission to share selected artworks in our D-Day 80 exhibitions:
o 10th May – 5th June 2024 at Grays Town Hall (Civic Center)
o 6th June 2024 at Tilbury Cruise Terminal at an event for local care homes
• Give us permission to send selected artworks for a special award. If an artwork from your class wins an award we will contact you via the email address you used to send us the artworks. If you choose post, please include contact details.
• Permission for artworks to be archived at Thurrock Museum.