Mrs Copp (Deputy Head of Junior School)

This week, our Year 6 girls have been reflecting on some of the poetry written in World War I. The use of powerful imagery and the impact of the language the poets used influenced the girls in their own poetry writing.

The girls also applied their skills to analyse, compare and contrast images of fields of poppies with war-torn fields. As a result, they feel more connection with the symbolism of the poppy at this poignant time of marking the centenary of the Great War, the ‘war to end all wars’.

Below is a poem written independently by Holly Maudlin and Grace Johnson (Year 6):

Remember me

Men lying in blood

While others still fighting on

Soldiers trudging in mud

Thinking of those who have gone

Women thinking of their lovers

Soldiers dying in pain

Men fighting with others

Germans bombing in their planes

Parents getting a telegram

Crying like never before

While their sons are in an never ending dream

As they drowned into the endless war

Marking the victory

As it sinks into history