We walked to the war memorial this morning and we thought about World War One.   We were surprised by how many names there were of people who had died and some of us found names similar to our own.  We saw different things to remember people who died.  We saw a memorial with a Jewish star of David, poppy wreaths and crosses with people’s names on them.

We saw the memorial for someone who had died only 9 years ago in Afghanistan.  We were surprised as we didn’t expect to see that people still died in wars.

We saw poppy wreaths which had been laid by some local churches, the police, the Beavers, the Cubs and the council.  Molly and Elise laid a wreath that we had made at the base of the statue.  We have also put a QR code that links to a video and poem we have written at the base of the statue.

The statue showed Saint Margaret who was a queen of Scotland 1000 years ago with soldiers at her feet.  Saint Margaret looked after children and orphans when she was alive, and she was caring. Saint Margaret’s husband and son were killed in a war and so we think she would understand what it is like to lose family members.

Thank you to all the helpers who meant that we could visit the war memorial, from P3S.