Remembrance

At the end of the First World War a day of commemoration was created to remember the dead. Recreate the main events in a Remembrance Day service and talk about the significance of each part.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To find out about Remembrance events.
• To recreate a Remembrance event.
• To create poppies.

Children will:

• Discuss the reasons for remembering the dead of the First World War.
• Make a poppy.
• Create their own Remembrance Day service and act it out.

• Remembrance day service plan
• ‘Why remember?’ presentation
• ‘How we remember’ presentation
• Enrichment resources

• Red and black tissue paper
• Red and black yarn
• Black buttons
• White fairy cake cases
• White paper plates
• Green pipe cleaners

Making tissue paper poppies from wikihow.com
Making poppies out of yarn, clay and fairy cake cases from happyhooligans.ca
War memorials database from iwm.org
First World War songs from bit.ly
Classical music with a link to the First World War from bit.ly