<p>This is a fully editable, informative and poignant 85-slide PowerPoint presentation on the theme of Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Remembrance Sunday / Poppy Day. The resource could be used for an assembly or series of assemblies leading up to, and on, Remembrance Day or for use with a tutor group.</p> <p>It is divided into 7 sections:</p> <p>What is Remembrance Day and why we have it.<br /> World War 1<br /> Armistice Day<br /> Remembrance Day<br /> The Poppy<br /> The British Legion<br /> How those soldiers who gave their lives are remembered</p> <p>The resource contains extracts from a soldier’s diary, hyperlinks to a recitation of Robert Binyon’s poem ‘For the Fallen’, Rudyard Kipling’s My Boy Jack, World War 1 veteran, Edward Francis’ poem about his friend ‘Spotty’, a short interview with Harry Patch - the last surviving member of the World War 1 from any country, Rupert Brooke’s poem ‘The Soldier’, John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, interviews with other veterans of the First World War, the song ‘The Green Fields of France’ by John McDermott, a recitation of Moina Michael’s poem ‘We Shall Keep the Faith.’</p> <p>The last slide contains the Last Post.</p> <p>You may also be interested in:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/remembrance-day-two-minute-silence-powerpoint-slideshow-with-last-post-and-reveille-11">Remembrance Day Two Minutes Silence</a></strong></p> <p>This is a 65-slide PowerPoint presentation designed to be used for the 2 minutes silence. It begins with the Last Post and ends with the Reveille and has been set to play automatically. The powerful and poignant images have been carefully selected and show scenes of</p> <p>World War 1<br /> World War 2<br /> Current soldiers in the Armed Forces<br /> War Graves<br /> War memorials</p> <p>This slide show will help pupils who find it difficult to focus during the two minutes silence to understand why we have Remembrance Day and what was like for both the soldiers on the front line and their families back home.</p> <p>The slides could also be used for follow-up work with the pupils to provoke discussion and provide a stimulus for writing activities and for display purposes.</p> <p><em>If you buy this resource and are pleased with your purchase, I would be extremely grateful if you could leave a review. As a token of appreciation, you can have a free resource of your choice up to the same value as your purchased resource. Just email <a href="mailto:inspireandeducate@aol.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">inspireandeducate@aol.co.uk</a> with your user name, the resource you have reviewed and the resource you would like for free.</em></p> <p>Thinking of publishing your own resources or already an author and want to improve your resources and sales? Check out this step-by-step guide:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-how-to-become-a-successful-tes-author-step-by-step-guide-a-must-have-for-authors-11508391">How to Become a Successful TES Author: Step-by-Step Guide</a></strong></p>

<p>Create a meaningful and memorable Remembrance Day assembly with this comprehensive 5-page script. Designed for KS1 and KS2 students, this resource provides a sensitive and age-appropriate way to commemorate those who have served and sacrificed.</p> <p><strong>Features:</strong><br /> ★ Complete Script: Includes speaking parts for pupils and teachers, ensuring everyone can participate and contribute.<br /> ★ Thought-provoking Content: Explains the significance of Remembrance Day, the poppy symbol, and the two-minute silence.<br /> ★ Beautiful Poetry: Features poignant poems to enhance the atmosphere of reflection and remembrance.<br /> ★ Wreath-laying Ceremony: Includes a simple yet moving wreath-laying ceremony to honor fallen heroes.<br /> ★ Easy to Follow: Clear formatting and instructions make it easy to organize and deliver a successful assembly.</p> <p><strong>Benefits:</strong><br /> ★ Foster Understanding: Help children understand the importance of Remembrance Day and its historical context.<br /> ★ Encourage Reflection: Create a space for quiet contemplation and gratitude for those who have served.<br /> ★ Promote Values: Instill values of respect, empathy, and peace in young learners.<br /> ★ Build Community: Bring your school together in a shared act of remembrance.<br /> ★ Save Time: No need to write your own script - everything you need is provided.</p> <p>Honor the fallen and inspire future generations with this heartfelt Remembrance Day assembly script.</p> <p>Ideal for: KS1, KS2, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day, whole school assembly, collective worship, British history, World War I, World War II.</p>

<p>Have your class make their own poppies to write in or draw in to help remember this important day.</p> <p>Instructions included on the templates.</p> <p>Print the poppies onto red paper as needed and the leaves onto green paper (3 per page).</p> <p>You could get children to write:</p> <ul> <li>words of remembrance inside</li> <li>words to describe our heroes</li> <li>a poem</li> <li>information on remembrance or the war</li> </ul>

<p>I used this 15 minute assembly with year 10, but it is suitable for use across all of KS3, KS4 &amp; KS5.</p> <p>Includes:<br /> -The importance of remembering<br /> -The symbolism of the poppy<br /> -2 minute silence (with video clip to The Last Post)<br /> -Reflection/Prayer</p>

<p>This is a 65 slide PowerPoint slide show for Remembrance Day / Armistice Day / Poppy Day. It has been designed to be used for the two minutes silence. There are two versions included. One begins with the Last Post and ends with the Reveille. It has been set to play automatically. The other contains images set to automatically play. It ends with the Last Post.This is an ideal resource to help pupils reflect on the centenary of Armistice Day and the ending of World War I.</p> <p>The powerful and poignant images have been carefully selected and show scenes of :</p> <p>World War 1<br /> World War 2<br /> Current soldiers in the Armed Forces<br /> War Graves<br /> War memorials</p> <p>This slide show will help pupils who find it difficult to focus during the two minutes silence. It will help them to understand why we have Remembrance Day and what it was like for both the soldiers on the front line and their families back home.</p> <p>You will see from some of the images that even in desperate and difficult times people can still smile and laugh - when their houses have been demolished; when they have been injured in the War; when they are in air raid shelters.</p> <p>An additional slide has been added with a link to ‘The Green Fields of France’ by John McDermott if you should wish to play it. The slides could also be used for follow-up work with the pupils to stimulate discussion and provide a stimulus for writing activities. They could also be used for display purposes.</p> <p>You may also be interested in:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/armistice-day-remembrance-day-remembrance-sunday-assembly-lesson-powerpoint-80-slides-11406946">Remembrance Day Presentation</a></strong></p> <p>This is a fully editable, informative and poignant 80-slide PowerPoint presentation. It could be used for an assembly or series of assemblies leading up to, and on, Remembrance Day.</p> <p>The presentation focuses on:</p> <p>What is Remembrance Day?<br /> World War 1<br /> Armistice Day<br /> Remembrance Day<br /> The Poppy<br /> The British Legion<br /> How soldiers who gave their lives are remembered</p> <p>The resource contains extracts from a soldier’s diary, hyperlinks to a recitation of Robert Binyon’s poem For the Fallen, Rudyard Kipling’s My Boy Jack, World War 1 veteran, Edward Francis’ poem about his friend Spotty, a short interview with Harry Patch, Rupert Brooke’s poem The Soldier, John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields, interviews with veterans of the First World War, the song The Green Fields of France by John McDermott, a recitation of Moina Michael’s poem We Shall Keep the Faith.</p> <p>The last slide contains the Last Post.</p> <p>Thinking of publishing your own resources? Check out this step-by-step guide:</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-how-to-become-a-successful-tes-author-step-by-step-guide-a-must-have-for-authors-11508391">How to Become a Successful TES Author</a></strong></p>

<p>An assembly to commemorate Remembrance Day in November. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.</p> <p>This beautifully-designed and editable 23-slide PowerPoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, animated gifs, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.</p> <p>Slides 1-2: Why do we remember things?<br /> Slide 3: The 11th<br /> Slide 4: What is Remembrance Day Includes video.<br /> Slide 5: What are we remembering?<br /> Slide 6: Somme video.<br /> Slide 7: They shall not grow old poem<br /> Slide 8: Why wear a poppy?<br /> Slide 9: Final thought<br /> Slide 10: Form time activities title page<br /> Slide 11: Form time activities: Colouring activity<br /> Slide 12: Form time activities: Wordsearch activity<br /> Slide 13: Watch a video about poppy wearing<br /> Slide 14: Form time activities: Write a remembrance poem<br /> Slides 15-20: Form time activities: Remembrance quiz – with answers<br /> Slides 21-23: Other form time ideas</p> <p>As reviewers have stated for previous resources shared:<br /> “I sat down to plan my assembly for next week and found this resource, and it’s perfect. The best £2 spent. Thank you. I can teach this straight from the slides.”<br /> “Just buy it!”<br /> “Your resources have been life savers!”<br /> “Well worth the money and really saved my life”<br /> “I just wanted to say that as a non-specialist these resources are worth every single penny! Thank you so much for making and sharing them.”<br /> “Blown away by this! Can’t thank you enough!”<br /> “They have saved me a huge amount of time and the detail that goes into your work is second to none. You put others to shame who charge twice as much for very little. Can’t thank you enough.”<br /> “Your new spec resources are saving me hours &amp; hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.”<br /> “These resources are so useful - I cannot tell you how much time they have save me - very clear to follow and easy to adapt for revision material — well worth the money”</p>

<p>This Remembrance Assembly 2024 is appropriate for students of all ages. The resource includes an 8 slide presentation covering the origins of Remembrance Day, the significance of the Poppy as the symbol of Remembrance, the continued relevance of Remembrance for people today, and ends with an embedded YouTube recital of The Last Post and 1 minutes silence. The resource comes complete with a suggested script for the assembly which delivers a 10 - 12 minute assembly.</p>

A PowerPoint that looks at how Remembrance Day began and why we 'celebrate' it. It also looks at Remembrance Sunday and why we have the poppy as our symbol.

A tribute to the fallen with appropriate music (Green Fields of France). The emphasis is on commemoration rather than education although some thought provoking statements and images appear throughout the presentation.You may wish to change a few of the photographs to reflect your school, local area, or country's contribution. Contains some famous and powerful images.

<p>2-3 hours content - 2x lessons and one quiz all about Remembrance / Armistice and World War I. All editable and well differentiated. Perfect for KS3/4 form time, History lessons or Citizenship / PSHCE. The World War I lesson was originally used with a History class but is easily adapted for tutor time.</p> <p><a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources">Many more Tutor Time, Citizenship and PSHE lessons available here: </a></p>

<p>An assembly for rememberance activities. Includes War poetry, reasons why we wear the poppy, images of war, first hand accounts from soldiers and opportunities for multiple pupils to read, as well as a full ‘script’.<br /> There are instructions for a paper poppy to give out (optional).</p>

Let your students creativity flow with this poetry pack for REMEMBRANCE DAY including acrostic, haiku &amp; more!<br /> ACROSTIC: Remember, Poppy, Poppies.<br /> HAIKU: Planning with instructions to crate word bank and how to make a haiku &amp; write up sheets in colour and black and white.<br /> REMEMBER WHEN: Planning sheet for children to brainstorm ideas of what would have happened on that day.<br /> BLANK TEMPLATES: colour and black and white with Remembrance Day poem by:_____ with poppy and frame.<br /> <br /> Each planning sheet and write up sheets comes in both colour and black and white.

<p>This Remembrance Day assembly is designed to help students connect with the powerful themes of sacrifice, unity, and service.<br /> The assembly is designed to promote empathy, unity, and active citizenship, while encouraging students to think about how they can contribute to the collective good in their daily lives.</p> <p>This assembly is an excellent resource for educators looking to honour the importance of Remembrance Day in a meaningful, student-centered way. It not only helps young people understand the significance of this day but also empowers them to take action and serve together, just as those before them did.</p>

<p>A lovely set of poppy cut outs on hessian discs. They are perfect to add to the tables for a loose part set up.</p> <p>Includes -</p> <ul> <li>7 poppy discs</li> <li>2 table signs - ‘Lest We Forget’ ‘Remembrance Poppies’</li> </ul> <p>Remembrance day is 11th November</p>

An assembly to mark Remembrance Day, looking at the history of the poppy as a symbol for the fallen of World War One and its symbolism today. It includes a short film which can viewed or downloaded for free at: www.truetube.co.uk

This is a remembrance day assembly in the format of a PowerPoint. I delivered this assembly 3 years ago when there were three living survivors alive from World War 1. You may need to change that slide to keep it current. Let me know if you used the resource. It would be nice to know it helped you!

<p>World War I</p> <p>The aim of this lesson is to understand the importance of the Poppy on Armistice Day. The lesson is split into two parts.</p> <p>The first part of the lesson analyses the causes of the war ending in 1918.</p> <p>Using a causal spiders web (an idea taken from Emily Thomas), students link the ideas together by drawing lines and then justify their reasons to create a spider’s web.</p> <p>The second part of the lesson analyses the significance of the use of the Poppy with students giving their own reasons for this on the poppy leaves (a template is included).</p> <p>They then have to prioritise the most important reasons why the Government introduced Poppy Day with a diamond nine activity.</p> <p>Students also have the chance to evaluate John McCrae’s in Flanders poem<br /> with some ‘clever question stems’.</p> <p>This lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited throughout the lesson and this unit of study to show the progress of learning.</p> <p>The resource includes retrieval practice activities, suggested teaching strategies and differentiated materials, and comes in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.</p>

<p>One week’s worth of resources focused on ‘Lest We Forget’ by Angela Marie James.<br /> Unit of work includes PowerPoint for five lessons and resources to match these.<br /> Outcome would be children creating their own version based on the poem they have deconstructed and comprehended.<br /> Lessons linked with reading VIPERS.<br /> Would also recommend artwork to go alongside this as a complete unit.</p>

A 20 slide presentation (PP and worksheets) to commemorate the 11th November, Remembrance Day.<br /> This is suitable for upper KS2 and KS3. Useful as an assembly or PSHE lesson, one off History lesson or as an English lesson with resources for poetry writing, extended writing and class discussion.

<p>This resource contains a comprehension pack on ‘<strong>Remembrance Day</strong>.’ There are four different comprehensions:</p> <ul> <li>What is Remembrance Day?</li> <li>The First Remembrance Day</li> <li>Why do we wear poppies?</li> <li>The History of the Poppy</li> </ul> <p>It includes answers and is suitable for using with <strong>year 1</strong>.<br /> Each comprehension contains a short piece of text (about 5 sentences) with words that can be sounded out. There are three trickier words which have pictures to help children work out what they say.<br /> The text is followed by 5 simple questions.</p> <p>There is also a <strong>powerpoint</strong> included in the pack containing a slide for each text so that you can go through the comprehensions before the children complete them. Each slide also contains 3 words that are trickier to sound out, with sound buttons underneath them.</p> <p>You might be interested in:<br /> <a href="https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11999226">Year 2 Comprehensions - Remembrance Day</a></p>

<p>This is a simple resource designed to be used with lower ability students.<br /> It can be coupled with a source or series of sources for comprehension/ history.</p> <p>The central poppy can be coloured in and be annotated with the symbolic meaning of each colour.</p> <p>This resource is very easy to adjust to be more or less challenging.</p>