PUPILS will learn what it was like to be an evacuee during the Second World War at a new exhibition.
Great Missenden School is taking part in the Evacuee Experience at RAF Hendon Royal Air Force Museum next month.
Pupils can try on authentic wartime clothing, make gas mask cases and have a 1940s-style lesson interrupted by an air raid siren.
A spokesman for the museum said: "Besides writing with dip pens and using £.s.d. arithmetic to re-create the authentic wartime atmosphere, schoolchildren will also be issued with individual Identity Cards and Evacuee Labels.
"To complete the experience, they will have a chance to visit the Museum's Battle of Britain Hall, where lifelike tableaux illustrate the build-up to war on the Home Front during the Blitz."
High Wycombe schoolboy Nick Robinson, the 12-year-old star of the TV film Goodnight Mr Tom, visited the museum as a special guest during half-term this week.
He signed copies of the book on which the film was based, which is about an evacuee's experience during the Second World War.
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