PUPILS at Caerleon Endowed Junior School yesterday found out what it was like for evacuees during the Second World War.

Year six children got to try out some of the clothes children being evacuated from the cities might have worn as part of a curriculum exploring the conflict.

Teachers at the school have tried to make it as real as possible for the pupils, providing them with suitcases and boxes with gas masks, and taking them into the nearby infants school to show what it might be like in a different place away from their parents.

Pupils also got the chance to hear stories from people who were alive during the war as part of the work at the school.