I can't vouch for all schools - particularly independent, free, faith or academies. But I would say your state schools would. I was visiting a secondary school last year and they did something similar to what Patches described.
For those schools who do so then great. But to hear in the news today that many know more about One Direction than what the poppy means is worrying.
This brings Remembrance Day back to football: http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...embrance-bradford-city-fa-cup-first-world-war
Funny you say tht, I got a load of abuse today in asda because I wasn't wearing a poppy. It was on my other coat and I hadn't realised. But since when has it become compulsory to wear one?
I glare and snarl at anyone not wearing a poppy in the week up to remembrance day with the same disdain as I give locals wearing Liverpool or Man Utd shirts.
My kids school(private - they've both left now) made a big deal of Rememberance Day, they'd read a list of all ex-pupils who'd been lost in action to the present day. It's a long list, sadly, it's a feeder school for officers and quite a lot of the kids had parents in the military. Joining the military was obligatory at the school(CCF - Combined Cadet Forces), though they did get to choose if they wanted to be Army, Navy or RAF. My daughter enjoyed it, I think she thought she looked good in camo gear, though she wasn't keen on the crawling through mud exercises and my lad just thought the whole thing was a waste of time. But as a consequence of their schooling, both are well aware of the significance of today and the lad(who's travelling in France at the moment) visited a war memorial this morning, something I didn't know about until an hour ago and I was both surprised and rather chuffed.
