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Remembrance

Join Priory Fields in commemorating Remembrance Day. Learn about the significance of poppies, the Tower of London installation, WW1 poets, and the letter-writing campaign. Receive 'The Last Post' music with our slideshow. Goodbye for now!

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Remembrance

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  1. Remembrance

  2. Hello, from your friends at Priory Fields. We hope you are well.

  3. We would like to tell you about Remembrance Day.

  4. Every 11th of November we commemorate the end of the First World War. The nearest Sunday to the 11th is Remembrance Sunday, where we remember all soldiers who have died.

  5. Do you know why poppies are a symbol of remembrance??? We wear poppies to remember the soldiers who gave their lives.

  6. We’ve been selling poppies in school to raise money. We also made poppy wreaths that we laid at the town’s war memorial.

  7. This year marks 100 years since the beginning of World War I.

  8. To mark this anniversary ceramic poppies were placed in the moat of the Tower of London. Each poppy represents a life lost in WW1.

  9. 888,246 poppies were placed in the moat.

  10. War inspired lots of poetry. First World War poets, such as Wilfred Owen wrote about their experiences. ‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind…’ From DULCE ET DECORUM EST

  11. The statue of an unknown soldier in London was the inspiration for a campaign to write a letter to a soldier. People all over the country wrote letters.

  12. These are some of the letters written by children around the country.

  13. Could you write a letter to the unknown soldier?

  14. Along with this slideshow we are sending you ‘The Last Post’, which is a piece of music played at remembrance ceremonies. We hope you found our slideshow interesting. We look forward to hearing from you soon. Goodbye for now!

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