British Values - Remembrance 2022
The wreaths the children made for Remembrance day this year
Teaching Remembrance is key to understanding how modern diverse Britain was created and the shared heritage of service and sacrifice across all the UK’s communities. We remember people who have served and sacrificed for and alongside the UK, including armed forces, emergency services and all those affected. This reminds us that whenever there is fighting, there is always a human cost, both for the people fighting and for the people living in the countries involved.
Remembrance is the act of stopping to remember the people affected by war and to hope for a peaceful future.
On the 11th of November all the Infant classes gathered outside together. We all kept the two minutes silence and bowed our heads in prayer. Together then listening to the last post our councillors laid the wreaths in the middle of the class circles.
On the 11th November over 320,000 children from across the country came together to explore the meaning of Service through our live, interactive programme.
Co-produced with the National Literacy Trust and hosted by Kenzie Benalia and Zeb Soanes, the assembly featured music, film, art, interviews and culminated in the Two-Minute Silence at 11am. Click the recording below to watch it at home.
How do we remember?
Royal British Legion resources
Remembrance honours those who serve to defend our democratic freedoms and way of life. We unite across faiths, cultures and backgrounds to remember the service and sacrifice of the Armed Forces community from Britain and the Commonwealth.
The poppy is a symbol of Remembrance and hope, including hope for a positive future and peaceful world.
They are a show of support for the Armed Forces community, those currently serving, ex-serving personnel and their families; and a symbol of Remembrance for all those who have fallen in conflict.
John McCrae wrote the poem 'In Flanders Fields' which inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.
In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his now famous poem after seeing poppies growing in battle-scarred fields.
In Flanders Fields
The poem by John McCrae
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders' fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders' Fields.
