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Memorials, parades and poppies

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

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Objectives

History

  • Ask and answer questions, choosing and using parts of stories and other sources to show that they know and understand key features of events.
  • 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

Class visit to local memorial. Do we recognize any of the surnames listed? For wider context, consider Britain's national memorial: The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London; Remembrance Sunday; and Menin Gate, Ypres.

Teaching Outcomes
 To learn about the different ways the UK commemorates Remembrance Day; to make their own individual response.
To design and make their own memorial or sculpture.

Children will:

  • Locate and visit local memorial, make observational sketch and compare with national memorials such as The Cenotaph and Menin Gate.
  • Create own model memorial using junk modelling, construction kits or playdough.
  • Record in writing own thoughts about Remembrance and/or hopes for the future.

You Will Need

  • Copy of poem Poppies for Remembrance by Moira Andrew
  • Clipboards to sketch memorial
  • 3D materials to create memorials: playdough, construction kits, ‘junk modelling’
  • A4 red card poppy petal
  • Black felt tip pen, black card circles to make centre of poppy display by arranging 4 petals together with 1 black circle

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