The children (wearing evacuee name tags) arrive at the Museum of Scottish Country Life to meet Miss Moffat, a wartime school teacher. They journey back through time on a walk up to the farmhouse, which was used for evacuees during the war. Miss Moffat takes the class in a cleaned-up part of a farm outbuilding (a cow byre).

Miss Moffat is acted by living history practitioner Jackie Lee and the character is based on a real Miss Moffat, a school teacher who did teach evacuees during the war and who is now in her 90s. Jackie Lee has based the teacher’s character on Miss Moffat’s wartime memories.

The children experience a lesson, then a tour of the working farm and then a guided tour around the wartime farmhouse itself.

Script

Miss Moffat:
Attention. Good. Glad to see you’re all here. My name is Miss Moffat. Good morning, boys and girls.

Children:
Good morning, Miss Moffat.

Miss Moffat:

Pupils line up to leave school

I’m glad to see you’ve all arrived promptly and you’ve all got your gas masks with you, that’s excellent.

Ferguson, Galagher, Mancini… come on, hurry up, we haven’t got all day… McKnight…

Right boys, stretch out. Perfect. Drop your arms, shoulders back, standing up straight. Up to the farm now, girls. Follow me.

One, two, three – ten green bottles, hanging on a wall… (singing)

So many of the young men working on the farm have joined up, so your contribution is very important. Everything that we can do for the war effort is important. Now, your singing was so good that we’re going to do it again, so – ten green bottles – one, two, three! (singing)

Tell me what these are. They’re sheep, excellent, well done. Excellent, cows, well done. You obviously have books in your school that have pictures in them. I’m very pleased to see that, well done.

I’m going to take the girls in first, leading of with you, young lady. That’s it, come on, follow me, one behind the other, excellent.