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Students mark Remembrance Day 2024 (By Evie, 13)

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Nov 14, 2024 — 1 min read

By Evie, 13, Jill Dando News Correspondent

Remembrance Day takes place on November 11th and it is an annual celebration to remember all the soldiers who served for our country in the past World Wars.

At Priory Community School in Weston-Super-Mare students spent two minutes - as they do every year - to remember all the brave people who fought for them to have their rights.

They commemorate that sadly, thousands of them lost their lives.

Some of the tutors at Priory Community School decided to spend their afternoons making poems and messages to help them remember all of the ones we have lost.

One of the tutors put forward some of their tutees’ amazing work that they had been working extremely hard on, as seen above.

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They commemorate that sadly, thousands of them lost their lives.

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