CHILDREN at Nettlestone Primary School have been creating large poppies ready for an Armistice Centennial Commemoration.

At 3pm on Sunday, November 11, pupils and parents will be joined by Isle of Wight deputy lieutenant, Kate Collins, and Rev Alison Morley to walk from Nettlestone Green to Sophie Watson's Garden in Seaview.

The pupils will carry 47 giant lit poppies made from willow and tissue paper that they have constructed with their parents in school during October and November.

The number of poppies signifies the number of men from the parish of Nettlestone and Seaview who perished in the First World War.

At the garden they will be joined by members of the Royal British Legion, invited guests and the community for a short commemorative event. The school choir will perform and there will be readings.

The poppies will be placed in the ground and more than 100 smaller felt poppies, also made by pupils and the local community, will adorn the trees.

The event will close with a bugler playing the last post.

A spokesperson from Nettlestone and Seaview Community Partnership said: "We aspired to involve as many members of our community as possible in this commemorative event, both to bring the community together and to raise the profile of Sophie Watson’s Garden. The response has been fantastic."

Sophie Watson and her husband lived in Seaview at the beginning of the last century. They had two sons, who were both were killed in service in the First World War, aged 19 and 21.

Sophie never recovered from the loss and became a recluse. When she died her husband bequeathed the garden of their house to the village as a lasting memorial.