Remembrance Day

The children in Year 6 have been learning about World War I and read some very descriptive and evocative poetry which helped to bring the pride, fear and horrors of the war to life.

They were then able to imagine what the soldiers could see, hear and feel and following this, wrote their own poems. They really were fantastic.

Here are only two superb examples:

Life on the Battlefield

Cannons blasting at full pelt Soldiers dropping like flies struck by newspaper Tanks prowling the area Rats scampering like rats do Nibbling at the skin of the fallen This is the life on the battlefield

Guns claiming victims by the second Trenches are the only hiding places Barbed wire just making a nuisance Lice crawling into your boots

And ripping into your flesh This is the life on the battlefield Grenades making trenches close up Bodies littering the ground

The bare ground making it impossible to look up For fear of getting shot By the enemy’s No.1 sniper This is the life on the battlefield

By Lucas Sibley (Year 6)

The Identical Poppy

The whimper was his last breath

Everything went quiet as he died

All we can do now is remember him

And all his bravery

All those days of fighting

Walking down into the deep, dark trenches

Now I’m a poppy in a field

Of brave strong men.

Never know when or what will happen

To me next

We all stayed strong until that very moment

When I died

Now I’m in a better place

Now heaven’s my home

I lay in a field of identical poppies

No one knows it’s me

Never-ending, hiding and crouching

Now I’m in a better place

I sure hope I’ve done my country proud.

By Milly More (Year 6)