Year 6 are currently learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the Fallen”, which was written whilst he was sitting by the sea on the Cornish coast, looking over to France. Laurence was too old to be conscripted into the army, and was a Quaker (so likely to have been a pacifist), so he chose to work in a field hospital where he looked after injured soldiers who had been fighting in the trenches. His poem has become famous across the country, the second of the verses on our video being read out at most services on Remembrance Sunday.