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Remembrance 2024

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Remembrance Sunday

10th November

Remembrance Sunday is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life.

Armistice Day

11th November

The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am on 11 November 1918.
We mark Armistice Day around the United Kingdom with a Two Minute Silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month.

 

Teaching Remembrance 

Please find below a range of FREE resources from charities and organisations to support the teaching of Remembrance.  
 

Royal British Legion (RBL)  

The Royal British Legion (RBL) in partnership with the National Literacy Trust have designed a range of FREE teaching resources. They also run in person and online events including a Remembrance Live Assembly.

All resources are:
- Available for key stages 1, 2 & 3 and Youth Groups?
- Made up of lesson plans, bitesize activities and assemblies to support teachers and parents?
- Free and linked to National Curriculum?
- Differentiated to provide both support and challenge?
- Available in Welsh.

Further information available here

Poppy Scotland 

Poppy Scotland provide a range of FREE learning resources highlighting the importance of remembrance, veterans and the poppy.

Further information available here
 

BBC 

The BBC have free teaching resources for Primary and Secondary aged pupils.

Further information available here

CBeebies also have an alternative video for the 2 minute silence for young children.

Access video here

 

Commemorative events

See all upcoming events here

 

Poppy appeal

 

#PoppyAppeal

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Service children’s quotes

"As soon as we get used to a house, you get moved - I’ve been to four schools and moved six times."

Aiden

"I lived in Nepal, then we went to Brunei, then Malaysia."

Ashim

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Chloe

"I’m used to moving now and mixing with the children... I’ve done it so many times, it’s just a normal thing now."

Chloe

"It's ok talking over skype and that, but sometimes you just want a hug when Dad is away."

Georgia

"I’ve enjoyed going around to lots of places around the world, it's adventurous and exciting."

Harry

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Ieuan

"My mum got a chalk board and it says how many sleeps on it with chalk, every minute it’s getting closer for him coming home."

Mia

"I don’t want him to get promoted... I want him to get promoted but I don’t want to leave."

Oliver

"I might be going to boarding school so that I don’t change schools every few years."

Ryan

"I've been to seven different schools; I’ve not stayed put in one school long enough."

Shana

"He has been away for six months and he is back for two weeks, then he goes away again."

Sianed

"My parents were in the Army. My mum is a like a nurse and my dad went to the war in Afghanistan. I actually didn’t really know what he was doing so I was like, ‘Cool Dad, go there,’ but then I found out and thought, 'Thank God he came back alive.'"

Sanjog

"He signed off last week, so he will be done by the end of this year. He’s done 24 years. I find that better because he will be around a lot. He likes watching us playing rugby, so he will get to see us more."

Lewis

"I’m going to a new place entirely. They don’t know anything about me and that’s a big restart and that’s really good for me."

Piaras

"I moved to Wales because my dad was posted in the Army. I thought I would get bullied and I was shy when you meet new people, but I made some friends."

Dan