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The Royal British Legion Learning Pack 2011/2012 The Royal British Legion is the nation’s leading Armed Forces charity, providing care and support to all members of the British Armed Forces past and present, and their families. For 90 years it has also been the national custodian of Remembrance, safeguarding the Military Covenant between the nation and its Armed Forces. It is best known for the annual Poppy Appeal and its emblem, the red poppy. The Legion is committed to helping ABOUT THIS young people understand the issues of Remembrance, conflict and the importance of peace, using informed, integrated and constructive methods. LEARNING RESOURCE The Royal British Legion’s The topics support the explore. The disks cover This pack is designed Remembrance Women in war free learning resources current areas of the National the themes and issues of to assist teachers How it all began and why How the role of women are updated annually and Curriculum for the following Remembrance; international and other learning it is still so important today. has changed over the last developed to reflect the units: conflicts and peacetime facilitators to introduce The Two Minute Silence and 120 years, in conflict and changing needs of schools operations from World specific themes into the relevance of memorials. on the home front. Women and other informal learning History War I to the present day; the classroom. in the Armed Forces today. groups. This year, some Key Stages 1 and 2 international organisations Primarily it covers the of the sections have been • Commemorative days and the world leaders and History and Citizenship strengthened to support, • World War I ordinary people who have curricula, but it can 2 16 in particular, the teaching Key Stage 3 influenced and witnessed also be used to support of Remembrance. The • World Wars I and II, those events. The CD Rom literacy and aspects diversity section has also including the Holocaust includes all case studies of PSHE and Religious The Royal The Home Front been updated, as have used in current and past Studies. British Legion What was happening in some of the appendices. Citizenship Legion resources. Last year, a section entitled Key stages 1– 4 Useful numbers and The essential welfare work Britain at home during “World War I and Disability” • The identities behind All the learning resources websites can be found of the Legion – support the Second World War. services for families and Evacuation, rationing and was added to the pack. Britain today are available free, throughout on page 24. who receives its help. Its role daily civilian life. This is supported by new • Understanding human the year via the schools as the national custodian contemporary case studies rights and learning section of Six A2 posters for of Remembrance. throughout the document. • Challenging racism and the Legion’s website: the classroom are 8 discrimination www.britishlegion.org.uk. included in the inside 20 Designed to assist teachers • War, conflict and peace back pocket. in introducing specific • Identity and diversity Diversity and World War I themes into the classroom, • Issues supporting rights Further free copies of the British Armed and disability this pack primarily covers and responsibilities. this pack are available the History and Citizenship all year round. Forces How the legacy of disability Curricula. It can also be Materials in this resource are History of different ethnic from World War I affected used, however, to support also suitable for aspects of and religious groups serving British soldiers, their families Literacy, aspects of PSHE study at Key Stage 4 and to and the country as a whole. in the British Armed Forces. and Religious Studies. introduce selected themes at post-16 level. This pack can be used 10 22 either as a starting point In addition to this pack, for certain topics, or to The Royal British Legion inspire teachers and other produces an extensive The Holocaust Case studies users to complementary routes CD Rom and DVD State-organised and systematic A: Britain and the Holocaust on tackling these themes. The triple-disk resource for murder by the Nazis. Who was B: Women and conflict factual information included schools. Together, these targeted and all those affected. C: World War II and on each topic is enough for a disks combine historical the Home Front single lesson, or as a trigger information with lesson plan D: Conflict and disability for extended activities. Each guidance, downloadable section contains lesson classroom activities, plus ideas and follow-up activities film and sound footage 14 25 for all ages and abilities. from the key periods they The Royal British Legion Learning Pack 2011/2012 1 In Flanders Fields WE WILL In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky REMEMBER The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie THEM In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow World War I, 1914–1918, Shortly after the Legion In Flanders fields. changed many people’s was formed, the poppy was understanding of conflict. adopted as its symbol. The Lt Colonel John McCrae Young men from across poem In Flanders Fields (1872–1918) the world enlisted, or were was part of the reason, conscripted, to fight. Battles but other poems had also took place in many places – mentioned poppies as at sea, in Gallipoli (in Turkey) they were one of the few in the Middle East, in Eastern flowers able to survive in Europe and in the infamous an area severely damaged trenches of Western Europe. by fighting. The poppy was Millions of people died in seen by many as a powerful terrible conditions. symbol of hope. The war introduced new Today, the poppy has technology, resulting in far become an international more injuries in conflict than symbol of Remembrance. before, with medical science Wreaths of poppies form striving to keep up with new a central role in Remembrance horrors. Battles lasted months ceremonies held across the UK, rather than just hours or days. parts of the Commonwealth After the war ended, some and overseas. people just wanted life to return to normal, but too many people Memorials had died or been injured for the war to be forgotten. Remembrance can too often focus on battles and Groups and associations conflicts rather than the were created, determined men and women affected to remember what by them. Remembering had happened and to all those involved can be commemorate the sacrifice difficult – there are millions that so many had made. of names to remember. It The act of a Two Minute is why memorials are so Silence began on the important, as they often anniversary of Armistice record the names of those Day, 11 November 1919. who were killed or, just as In 1921, The Royal importantly, act as a symbol British Legion lobbied for all those that fought the Government for and were affected by the ‘Remembrance Day’ conflict. HRH Prince William of Wales KG lays a wreath which was then formally at Camp Bastion, the main military base in adopted as a national day Memorials can have many Afghanistan, in memory of all those who have of Remembrance. different shapes and forms lost their lives in the ongoing conflict. 2 The Royal British Legion Learning Pack 2011/2012 The Royal British Legion Learning Pack 2011/2012 3 Above The National Memorial Arboreetum (NMA) in Staffordshire Left The ‘Shot at Dawn’ memorial at the NMA Right The Armed Forces Memorial at the NMA – some are of people or Memorial Arboretum (NMA), The Legion and Mark Stonelake was a soldier in the Royal Artillery. figures; some are symbols part of The Royal British Remembrance In 2008, his regiment was on active service in such as the Cenotaph Legion family. It is an Afghanistan. Whilst out on patrol, the vehicle that he in Whitehall, London. outdoor site that contains a The Royal British Legion was driving hit a roadside bomb that had been buried For many, a memorial is large and varied number of was founded in 1921, so under the road. important as it is a physical memorials to commemorate 2011 is its 90th anniversary. site for people to visit. For those who have given their Its primary purpose was to His injuries were very serious and he had to have his the first half of the 20th lives for their country and provide welfare for veterans left leg amputated. The explosion also left him with a century, British Service men those who have suffered and their families and to badly damaged right foot, a fractured back, broken and women were buried as a result of conflict. The ensure that the sacrifice bones and a broken nose, jaw and teeth. A friend near to where they fought site reflects the contribution made by those who serve and colleague, also in the vehicle at the time, is now and died, which means there of the Armed Forces and in, or who are affected by permanently brain-damaged by the explosion and has are cemeteries all over the organisations connected conflicts, are not forgotten. to communicate through a computer. world that contain British with conflict from World Today the Legion is the war dead. It also means that War I through to the present national custodian of Mark and his colleagues have been supported by it is sometimes difficult for day.
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