On Remembrance Day this week our class took a closer look at some famous poetry, namely the well known ‘Flanders Field’ poem by John McCrae, who was an army doctor, in 1915 during the First World War.

Flanders Fields is a name given to several First World War battlegrounds which were situated near the border of France and Belgium. The battles which created Flanders Fields began in August 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium.

Through our analysis of the poem, we learnt when the land began to recover after the war and the grass and flowers returned, poppies became a symbol of remembrance!