Brackley pupils combine art and learning in poppy memorial

Pupils at Brackley's Bracken Leas Primary School decided to get creative for their Armistice display in the schools glass hallway.
Teachers Mrs Messer (rear) and Ms Upstone with Year 4 students and the Armistice poppy memorial NNL-181113-094846001Teachers Mrs Messer (rear) and Ms Upstone with Year 4 students and the Armistice poppy memorial NNL-181113-094846001
Teachers Mrs Messer (rear) and Ms Upstone with Year 4 students and the Armistice poppy memorial NNL-181113-094846001

The students brought together a whole rage of household objects utilising a number of materials to make the poppies.

Included in the display are poppies that incorporate a mixture of media, textures and skills to create including old bottles, egg boxes, wire, buttons and fabric.

Bracken Leas Primary School Armistice art display NNL-181113-163903001Bracken Leas Primary School Armistice art display NNL-181113-163903001
Bracken Leas Primary School Armistice art display NNL-181113-163903001
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Year 4 teacher and art coordinator Sarah Messer said: “Each year group had a different style of poppy to create and we then combined them and put them up as our school display for the centenary of the end of WWI.

“As a school we are working to improve and enhance art throughout the school. To improve the children’s art skills.”

Year 6 pupils painted the sunset backdrop to the poppy display while the whole school learnt about WWII.

Adam Kavas, Year 3 pupil, said: “I enjoyed doing the little black bit in the middle. Getting bits of black paper and sticking them in the middle.”

Megan Toulson, a Year 6 pupil who helped create the background, said: “We did it from our own experience.”