Forging links with the next generation

Ilchester Junior School pupils have had a busy week learning about the poppy and what it has come to symbolise for over a century.
Representatives from the school visited the Royal Naval Cemetery to place some of the beautiful poppies they had made. The children decided to position them around the  armillary base so that they can be seen during this year's Remembrance Sunday service and for the rest of November.  
Earlier in the day, they had also put poppies on 'Falklands Way' so that each Fleet Air Arm man who did not come home after the 1982 conflict had their own handmade flower. 
On Tuesday our Custodian had delivered a presentation focusing on just a few of the Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm personnel killed in both World Wars, how they are commemorated and then talking about what remembrance meant to them personally. This prompted plenty of thoughtful and interesting questions from this large group of 90 young people.
Thank you Ilchester Junior School for your undivided attention and taking the time to remember those who died for our country so that we have the freedom to live as we do today. 
Well done!