Talented children at a Sandbach school have made and painted poppies and 'planted' them in an everlasting Remembrance garden.

Reception children at St Johns Church of England School in Sandbach Heath painted and upcycled materials such as old CDs and old pots into poppies.

Then a volunteer at the school attached them to long sticks and children helped hammer them into the Remembrance garden.

Year six pupils, Kerem Danaci and Oliver Hyde, both aged 10, helped teaching assistant Shaun Ashley plant them in the school's woodlands area.

Now the children will be able to go and visit the garden at any time and remember those who fought for our country and their future.

Mr Ashley said: "It's important for children to remember the past and for them to appreciate what has happened and those who died in the war.

"On November 11th we talk about Remembrance and what has happened."

The Remembrance garden poppies aren't the only poppies in the woodland area. Last year Years 5 and 6 made an arrangement using the stumps of old trees.

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They painted the stumps with different designs and then these were fixed to two giant poppies outside.