Poppy Robinson helped to commemorate the First World War after winning a competition run by the Tesco store in Hoyland.

The new Tesco store, on Wombwell Road, invited local primary school pupils to design a poster marking this important anniversary and store manager Matthew Pickthall and his team had the difficult task of picking a winner.

Ten year old Poppy wowed Matthew with her poignant design which showed a lone soldier standing in no-man’s land with the heading ‘Lest We Forget’.

“The 100 year anniversary of the start of WW1 is a massive part of our history and we felt that it was important that we helped to mark it in some way”, said Matthew. “When we saw Poppy’s design we could tell that she’d put a lot of thought into it and she really captured the message we wanted to get across”.

Poppy’s design has now been transferred on to limited edition hessian bags and every pupil at school has received one as well as being available at the store in the lead up to Remembrance Day on Sunday 9th November.

Along with a group of her classmates, Poppy was invited in to store to see her bags for the first time and be presented with a cheque for £200 for her school as part of her prize and meet veteran Chris Davis.
“Our Autumn term topic has been ‘Lest We Forget’ and we have been learning all about World War 1 and why it is important to remember it”, said Poppy. “I used what I’d learnt in class and from our school trip to the Imperial War Museum North to help design my poster”.
The School will also receive a WW1 themed cookery workshop which will teach the children about rationing and food shortages as well as making a war cake using only ingredients that would have been available at the time.
Matthew and his team also made a £500 donation the Hoyland and District branch of the Royal British Legion as well as a £200 donation to School.