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Friday, 11 November 2011
Hesketh House Year 6 pupils led a special assembly on
Friday 11.11.11 to commemorate the Armistice, which was
declared at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh
month of 1918 ending the First World War - Remembrance Day, or
Poppy Day.
The assembly was based on work Year 6 pupils have covered this
term in English, learning challenges, music and ICT and was based
primarily around the study of the novel, War Game by Michael
Foreman, set during the First World War in 1914. The War, known as
The Great War was meant to stop all future wars, but it didn't. The
special assembly used video footage of Paul McCartney's famous
song, Pipes of Peace, and John McCrae's evocative poem, In
Flanders' Fields, along with pupils' research and music making
about the Great War and how Remembrance Day first came into
existence.
Two minutes silence was observed at 11am on Friday 11.11.11
- a poignant and emotive reflection.
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