showing peace

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doing peace

The theme today is inner peace

Siegfried Sassoon is known mostly for his poetry about the Second World War. This poem, however, is a perfect expression of joy. It speaks of that moment when everything is suddenly OK. Do you recognise that feeling? Does it feel like birds flying to you, or do you have another image to express how it feels?

• find out more about Siegfried Sasoon. What do you think about his war poems?

• share one of his war poems with someone and discuss how it makes you both feel about war

• think about a time when you were suddenly joyful. Perhaps it was after a time of worry, sadness or grief

• write a poem or draw a picture and give it the title 'joy'

• share 'Everyone Sang' with someone (it can be the same person or someone else) alongside your poem or picture about joy. Discuss what joy feels like.