CHILDREN at an East Yorkshire school have created their own version of the Blood Soaked Lands and Seas of Red installation at the Tower of London.
More than 200 ceramic poppies have been planted at Pocklington Community Junior School, after pupils and staff learnt how to make and paint their own versions of the flowers.
The poppies were planted at the school on Friday morning, when the Bishop of Whitby Rev Paul Ferguson, and Mayor of Pocklington Paul West, opened the new garden.
Also there were representatives of the Royal British Legion in Pocklington Gerald Petch and Steve Ford.
The school's Sue Yeates said: "The children have thoroughly enjoyed it. Making the poppies has made it real for them, not just something they see on the news. While they were making the poppies they learnt about what poppies mean and why they are important because they were the only flowers that grew on the battlefields."
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