Pupils say why Remembrance Day is important to them

Pupils say why Remembrance Day is important to them, November 11, 2024

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00:00I think it's important to remember those who have honoured the country and have done a great job in the armed forces and their family

00:12because they played an important role and life wouldn't be as it is today if they hadn't.

00:19First, we need to remember those who went in the wars to help us and save our country.

00:34So I think it's important because we have to remember those who fought for our country and died fighting for our country.

00:43It's really important to remember them just for their service and the vital role they played and their families.

00:50The children across our school, all 440 of them, have made an individual poppy each that they planted this morning

00:59out in what we're calling our poppy field out at the front of school.

01:02So the children will be joining us out at the front of school close to 11 o'clock, the entire school,

01:08along with their parents and their carers and some people from the local community that maybe have no links to the school

01:14to join us in our act of remembrance.

01:17Yes, the children thoroughly enjoy the event. They bring in their bottles so that they can paint them and create the poppies.

01:24The teachers help them and then we come out first thing on the 11th and we plant them.

01:29We had a special assembly this morning by Mr Burnside where they are given a wee bit more information about Remembrance Day

01:37and they thoroughly enjoyed that as well. They're very used to coming into the assembly so when they come out to events like this

01:43they know how to behave, they're very respectful and very kind.