VE DAY 2025: teaching resources and activities

VE Day activities for schools

We're proud to be partnering with Royal British Legion again this year on a remarkable project of literacy resources that will mark the 80th annniversay of VE Day and support pupils in connecting with Remembrance through non-ficition and fiction texts.

Learning Sequences: Stories for Remembrance

Our Stories for Remembrance project aims to support teachers in exploring Remembrance stories in the classroom, both fiction and non-fiction whilst developing key literacy skills inspired by stories from the Second World War.

For each age group we've provided a teacher guide that includes a range of classroom activities aimed to develop key reading, writing and oracy skills. Each activity focuses on the theme of ‘Why it is important to remember stories from the Second World War?” as well as having its own specific literacy focus.

Included in the resources:

• A teacher guide and session presentation for pupils to explore VE Day and stories of Remembrance for pupils aged 5 to 7 (KS1/P1 to P3).
• A teacher guide and session presentation for pupils to explore VE Day and stories of Remembrance for pupils aged 7 to 11 (KS2/P4 to P7).
• A teacher guide and session presentation for pupils to explore VE Day stories of Remembrance for pupils aged 11 to 14 (KS3/S1 to S3).
• A guide for how to host a VE day celebration in your school.
• An assembly to introduce the celebration event (For pupils aged 5 to 14/KS1-KS3/P1 to S3)

Download resources relevant for your class group below.

For further resources and information about our work with Royal British Legion, visit our Remembrance page.