St. Gregory’s Catholic Science College mirror Tower of London poppy display for Remembrance Day

An Achievement Award winner from St Gregory’s Catholic Science College used their £250 grant for something a bit different.

The winner and their classmates created poppies using a 3D printer and wrote poems and prayers on each. The poppies were displayed outside the school, mirroring the Tower of London’s beautiful display.

Pupils and staff gathered around the display for an assembly to mark Remembrance Day, where pupils offered prayers of thanks to those who gave their lives in the Great War and all subsequent conflicts.

This was a cross-curricular project led by the DT, Art and RE departments. All Key Stage Three students made a small wooden cross and poppy in their DT lesson. In art classes they painted their cross and poppy and in their RE lesson, they wrote a prayer of remembrance and thanksgiving for a soldier they had either researched or who had been a member of their family.

The crosses were placed in the school’s garden in a regimented format, resembling that of a war cemetery.

As this was a whole school cross curricular project there were lessons on World War One trench warfare in History classes, the impact of conflict on population pyramids in Geography, calculated ratios and percentages of the number of people who died in conflict during Maths lessons and they also performed the solemn “Last Post” in Music lessons. Parts of the poppy flower were studied in Science, and the students learnt the vocabulary of war in French lessons and analysed war poetry in English.

Find out more about our Achievement awards here.