King’s Hawford Remembers

Over the past week, members of the King’s Hawford community have been gaining a better understanding of Remembrance Day by taking part in a range of different activities. In Kindergarten, our youngest children have decorated biscuits to look like poppies and have made some wonderful poppy prints using apples!

Next week Remembrance will be the main theme in Reception, with the children learning more about why Remembrance Day is so important. This week Year 1 children have proudly decorated their classroom windows with a beautiful display of poppies that they have coloured in.

Year 6 have produced artwork inspired by P Nash and M.C Escher. Reflections in puddles combines WW1 battlefield poppies with lines from the poem In Flanders Fields. This brilliant work has cross-curricular links with Science, History and English.

The children from Reception to Year 6 have listened to stories and poetry during assemblies and have been encouraged to consider why we have a two-minute silence on Remembrance Day. They have shared their hopes for a peaceful future and impressed staff with their thoughtfulness and aspirations for a war-free world.

Since we returned from the Half Term break, pupils from Year 6 have been selling poppy merchandise on behalf of the Royal British Legion. Thank you to the parents who sent in money for their children to support this cause.

On Friday the whole school assembled on the top field near the Mound to mark Remembrance Day together. Mr Butt started the service by reading For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon. He was joined by our Heads of School Max and Poppy. The school then observed the two-minute silence before Jack M’s trumpet sounded out the haunting notes of The Last Post.

Well done to Jack M: your performance was haunting and quite beautiful. All of the children from Reception to Year 6 conducted themselves in a respectful and mature fashion whilst observing the silence. Two minutes of silence isn’t an easy feat when you’re four years old but Reception really did themselves proud.