Armistice Day ideas - November 2018

Refugees

• Christian Aid Primary KS2 & 3 Safe Place Ludo: Safe Place Ludo game | Christian Aid Use the questions discussion prompts on the back of the instructions.

• Oxfam Stand with refuges KS2 & 3 Resources to think critically about why people flee and develop empathy: Stand with Refugees

• Schools of Sanctuary, for secondary schools to consider their school culture of welcome: Schools of Sanctuary: Giving a Warm Welcome | Oxfam Education

Courage

• Noel Chervasse SPCK Assemblies - Two Victoria Crosses, and he never fired a shot: Remembrance Sunday (secondary)

• Edith Cavell SPCK Assemblies - Edith Cavell – An Ordinary Hero

• Edith Cavell Faith before the firing squad Hope UK 2015 materials www.hopetogether.org.uk/Groups/265838/Edith_Cavell.aspx

Working for Peace

• Tearfund peacebuilding

• Martin Luther King Foundation for Peace

• SPCK Assemblies - The Peace Prayer: To reflect upon the meaning of the Peace Prayer

World Peace day 21st September

Peace Babies assembly (SPCK) – Bassetts Jelly Babies to mark the end of WW1

Football and BAME

Walter Tull, the first man of black heritage to become an officer in the regular British Army and one of Britain’s first black professional footballers, killed in action Footballer died in the Somme in 2018: Tull100 | Big Ideas

Poppies

‘Bleuet de France’ cornflowers (cornflower, French symbol of Remembrance and Solidarity) https://anglophone-direct.com/le-bleuet-de-france/ The Poppy Factory, charity for veterans with health conditions or impairments. Website here.

War memorials

SPCK Assemblies - Memorials (secondary) How the death of one person will affect so many people in a community, includes finding information about a person a local war memorial.

SPCK Assemblies - Remembrance (primary) To show that whole communities are affected by war.

Memories

SPCK Assemblies - Remembering (primary). Includes memorials and acts of remembrance.

SPCK Assemblies - Stone remembrance (primary). To use the Good Friday story to remember people who are special to us

Remembrance

SPCK Assemblies - We Will Remember Them (primary) Whole school assembly for

SPCK Assemblies - Remembrance Now (primary) To explain the meaning of Remembrance Sunday, looking at peace and war, present and past, the victims.

Conscientious Objectors

Bible Society: Conscientious Objectors - Bible Society

Quakers: Quakers and | Quakers in Britain

Thank you

Royal British Legion Time to Say thank you project starts here (scroll down the page and follow links to information)

Schools | The Royal British Legion : Lesson plans, art, music, English

WW1 commemoration resources for schools - Bible Society Assemblies and lesson plans for primary and secondary.

Community of reconciliation Coventry cathedral