Remembrance.

Lets Join Hands and Remember This is our groups slogan. If you look to the sheet you can see we made a sort of logo. We think this is effective as it shows that people of different countries, race, religions; anything, should all come together and remember.

What Is Remembrance Day? Remembrance day is where people all over the world come together and remember people who have died, fought or aided in any war or conflict. People in different countries, towns and people of different religions and beliefs remember people in different ways.

What We Have Researched. Over the past week or so we have looked into peoples views on remembrance and how remembrance should be recognised. We asked five people two questions: What do you personally think remembrance day means? How do you think we should express remembrance day?

Who We Asked. The people that we asked aged between 11 and 89. The age range meant that we could get people of different ages ideas and views on how we should express remembrance at the museum. Here are a few of the clips:

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Educational After interviewing these two primary school children in the museum today It made me realise that children at primary age are not taught about remembrance day. It made me think of a brand new idea that a primary school and a secondary school come together to create an information and activity pack that will be available to schools online.

Why? I think that this idea is quite affective because children should learn about remembrance. As at primary age they don’t learn much about remembrance day and why we should all remember.

Why We Interviewed People To get a real insight into what people want. Not just teenagers, but younger children, young adults, middle aged people and the elderly. You need to ask THEM, instead of just presuming what they would like to see or what they believe.

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International After interviewing this woman, What she said made me realise that our country makes quite a big deal of remembrance and I am proud to be part of a community that is proud to remember.

Idea 1 Our first idea is to have poppy seeds for sale, within the museum. People can donate whatever they wish. And then they are able to plant the seed in a designated area, outside the museum. People will be able to come back to the museum to see the poppies in bloom.

Why We Chose Idea 1. We as a group, felt that having something as a living memorial of people was effective. Also as people are able to come back to visit the poppies; when they bloom, they can see that many people want to remember people, wars or conflicts.

What You Need. To do the poppy seed idea. All you need really is the seeds. This won’t really need to be staffed as the seeds could be sold in the gift shop. So it is effective but doesn’t need much work. The money people donate will pay for the seeds and whatever is left, the museum can use to pay for any resources they may need.

Idea 2 & Why We Chose Idea 2 Our second idea is very simple. We thought having colouring pages that are representing remembrance are something that younger children are involved with, also it is something the children can take home to remember to remember.

What You Need Well this ideas needs are pretty simple. You will need, The colouring sheets which are available on the internet. Also you will need colouring pencils or crayons.

Idea 3 Our third idea is to have a love heart template with labels available. Visitors are able to draw/write on the label and stick it onto the love heart. They can say what they think of remembrance or something they personally remembrance.

Why We Chose Idea 3 We chose idea three because we feel that if we get people thinking about remembrance by writing a word down. They will realise why its so important to remember. Also this is an activity that the whole family can join in with, so it will be effective.

What You Need Again The Love heart idea is very easy to provide for. You will obviously need: The template The Labels Colouring Pencils Pens

Idea 4 Our fourth idea is to have a washing line hanging above the exhibit. Where pictures of people will be pegged on. But visitors to the museum will be able to bring their own image to peg on. So that when they look up they will just see faces hanging down.

Why We Chose Idea 4 We chose idea four as it is something visual that people can also get involved with personally. Also it isn’t educational although it still makes you realise how many people died. And that we should remember them, as they fought for us.

What You Need: As all of the previous ideas are. This idea is very easy to supply. All you need is: Images. A washing line. Pegs. This activity will probably need supervision to help peg the visitors own images up. But that is up to you.

Idea 5 Our final idea is extremely simple. But very effective. It is to have a recording listing names and ages of dead people due to conflicts and wars, playing constantly in the exhibit.

Why We Chose Idea 5 We chose idea five because as a group. We felt that it was very effective as it makes you realise how many people died. And that because of this, we should remember them. For dying to give us a better future. Also the recording makes you think.

What You Need This idea is very easy to do, as all you need is the recording. But you need to make sure you have enough time to record someone saying all of the names.

We have tried to include everyone’s opinions and views into our ideas. We hope you take our ideas into consideration. Thank you for taking the time to listen. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.