Remembrance Day Lessons and Resources
Explore remembrance, memories and the significance of poppies
Help children think about memories and why people remember those who have died in wars. Use poppies, local war memorials and carefully chosen stories to explore commemoration sensitively.
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War Memorial Detectives: What is this mystery object?
The aim of this flexible activity is to help pupils to make sense of the local war memorials they may have seen by introducing them to a range of clues…
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Poppy Day: what are memories?
This is the first session on Remembrance Day. It uses the excellent story of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge as a way of exploring children’s understanding of memories. From the general…
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What do we remember on Poppy Day / Remembrance Day?
This session revolves around a PowerPoint presentation which poses 6 significant questions, each designed to encourage pupils to think and to share their knowledge and understanding of this annual event….
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Remembrance Day – When did we start wearing poppies and have we always done so?
More than a century ago, in 1921, paper poppies were first sold to raise money for returned soldiers of the First World War. In postwar society, many veterans struggled to…
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All content on Keystage history is written and quality assured by Neil Thompson, a former history teacher, county history adviser and Ofsted inspector with more than 30 years’ experience in history education.