ABSTRACT
Formal schooling was a major casualty of the second world war. In the early months, a significant number of children went to school in the morning or the afternoon only, since premises often had to be shared between two or even three separate schools. Others received part-time schooling in the form of home tuition. Children, armed with the necessary iron rations, spent many hours, sometimes the whole day, in the nearest shelter. Art lessons offered an opportunity for creating posters for War Weapons Week or National Savings Week. Inevitably, children in country schools were less dramatically affected than their counterparts in the town and city schools, except perhaps during the three evacuation periods. Then the chapter presents some case studies on the evacuee's mindset during the war and they are listed under various categories like the state school girl, the country teacher, extracts from the diary of a Suffolk teacher, the public school boy, the city teacher and so on.
