{"id":14685,"date":"2025-11-10T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=14685"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:46:42","slug":"war-memorial-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2025\/11\/10\/war-memorial-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"War Memorial Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">In preparation for Armistice Day tomorrow and following on from Memorial Sunday, pupils at Kirkcolm have been learning about the significance of this day and how we use the poppies to mark remembrance for all the people who have died at war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">On Thursday, Mrs Adams lead an assembly on this. Pupils understood how different coloured poppies represent different things, where the symbol of the poppy comes from, read through the poem Flander&#8217;s Field and learned how the donations raised from the poppies go towards supporting War Veterans in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Pupils went on to make some Poppy art in pairs to create a large wreath to display at the War Memorial at Kirkcolm Primary. Pupils took a walk up to the Memorial today to show their respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14700\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124618\/IMG_4610-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124618\/IMG_4610-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124618\/IMG_4610-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124618\/IMG_4610-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14701\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124626\/IMG_4611-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124626\/IMG_4611-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124626\/IMG_4611-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124626\/IMG_4611-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14702\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124633\/IMG_4608-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124633\/IMG_4608-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124633\/IMG_4608-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124633\/IMG_4608-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/kirkcolmprimary\/uploads\/sites\/5370\/2025\/11\/10124633\/IMG_4608.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for Armistice Day tomorrow and following on from Memorial Sunday, pupils at Kirkcolm have been learning about the significance of this day and how we use the poppies to mark remembrance for all the people who have died &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2025\/11\/10\/war-memorial-visit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}