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Poppies part 1

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Beyond Living Memory: Commemorating History Remembrance Day

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Objectives

History

  • Know where the people and events they study fit within a chronological framework and identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.
  • Use a wide vocabulary of everyday historical terms.
  • Understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past and identify different ways in which it is represented.

Art and Design

  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
  • Learn about the work of a range of artists, and make links to their own work.

Lesson Planning

Poppies as symbols of Remembrance.  Combine story ‘Where the Poppies Now Grow’ with contemporary artists Scarlett Raven, Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. (Continue into Session 4).

Teaching Outcomes
 To recognise the poppy as a symbol representing Remembrance and to begin to understand what is being remembered and why.
To design, paint and model their own creative work.

Children will:

  • Recognise the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance and begin to understand the reasons why the poppy is used in this way.
  • Use the work of modern day artists to inspire their own creative work.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Cards depicting symbols created in Session 2
  • A poppy as worn on Remembrance Sunday, or image
  • Where the Poppies Now Grow by Hilary Robinson & Martin Impey
  • Gather together as many images and items using poppies, including real poppies if possible
  • Resources for art work
  • Information books and stories appropriate for KS1 about WW1 and Remembrance Day, e.g. Beginning History Remembrance Day by Liz Gogerly
  • Photo from WW1 and dates 1914-1918 for timeline

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