Remembrance Day 2024

This year’s resources follow below and you can keep up to date with reminders about what I am doing next year here…

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This year’s Remembrance Sunday was marked on 10^th November, with Armistice Day on Monday 11^th November 2024.

To help schools mark the occasion and link it to developing literacy in the classroom, I offer these FREE resources for schools to use based around my books …

Signed certificate to present to pupils for their reading for pleasure or any achievements relating to Remembrance Day.

Download here

Lake District plane crash illustration by James Innerdale from Angel of Grasmere

My annual Remembrance Day film – hundreds of Allied planes crashed in the countryside during the defence of Britain during the Second World War, some miles away from villages and roads, many hundreds of feet high up mountains and fells. Thousands of airmen were killed and severely injured. Many sites have memorials to those lost. Tom speaks from the site of one of these air crashes. “At the going down of the sun and in the morning , we will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>Monday 11 November 2024 –Remembrance virtual event

10.20am – 11.05am with a two-minute silence to mark the Armistice
Art, music, poetry, veteran interviews creating a unique, interactive, live-streamed experience
Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3
Live Zoom webinar with National Literacy Trust and the Royal British Legion

Catch up now here …

My books about various sections of the Armed Forces

Royal Navy (Arctic Star )
Army (Over the Line , Armistice Runner and The Last Try )
RAF (Flyboy, Spitfire, Typhoon and Rugby Academy ).
the Reserves and Paratroopers D-Day Dog

Since 2019 the red poppy has paid tribute to civilian victims of war and “acts of terrorism”, alongside the armed forces.

Angel of Grasmere is set at the start of the Second World War in Britain featuring the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and the fear of Nazi invasion for a group of three village and evacuee children in the Lake District.

Resist is my historical story for children about the impact on a homefront civilian occupation in WW2, based on the real Dutch Resistance experiences of Audrey Hepburn.

My books about both World Wars and children of today’s serving members of the Armed Forces :

First World War – Read Over the Line, Flyboy and Armistice Runner
Second World War – Read Resist, Spitfire, D-Day Dog, Arctic Star, After the War and Angel of Grasmere
21^st century Armed Forces – Typhoon, D-Day Dog

More WW1 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/first-world-war-literacy-resources/

First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
Be a Trench Runner memory challenge game for the school hall.
Black out poetry sheets with instructions and certificates.
10 discussion points about war for Y5 to Y9.
Book cover prediction sheets with questions encouraging the children to think about what a book might be about.

More WW2 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/second-world-war-literacy-resources/

Downloadable posters.
First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
Videos about the settings of my books, filmed at the Somme and on the D-Day beaches.

D-Day Dog Blackout Poem Challenge Introduction and how to guide to create your own Blackout Poems, including suggested texts, examples and a certificate. Download here

Here’s a recap of materials from 2023.

an assembly message for KS2 and KS3. I will talk about the real First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors that have inspired the characters in my books. It is for use in the hall or for schools to stream throughout classrooms.

“The Barnbow Lasses” – a FREE 3 part readaloud story with resources. Download here.

And you can read this great blog from Amy McKinlay, P1-3 teacher at Kettins Primary School … How to make Remembrance Day memorable in the classroom – Scottish Book Trust

2022 Remembrance message about the First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors – from across the Commonwealth – that have inspired the characters in my books, particularly from India and Canada :
My 2021 Remembrance message filmed from the Arctic Convoy War Memorial at Liverpool Parish Church

My 2020 Remembrance message filmed from my local war memorial about the real soldiers, sailors and airman who inspired my books:

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here.