Yesterday, the Draatsi class watched a video all about ‘The Poppy Story’ and they took notes as they watched to help them recall details for their writing today, on Remembrance Day.  Note taking is a really tricky skill but they all persevered and tried hard to just write down the main points!  Please see the photographs below of some of the completed pieces of writing.  Perhaps you’ll learn something about how the poppy became a symbol of remembrance.

We also spent time looking at John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ which was written as he looked out over the poppy fields in Ypres, Belgium.  We took his very famous poem and blacked out some of the words to create a new piece of writing by choosing words we felt were important.  It was amazing how many different versions were created using this technique!  Some are still to be completed but please see some of the finished examples below.

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