1st World War Commemoration : Balloon Release

The school I work at decided to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1st World War with the release of red balloons on the school field. The PTA worked very hard to make it an event the children understood the significance of and which would be involving for all the children, no matter how young.

Every balloon had a label with an email address to let the school know how far they had traveled.

Parents were invited to come and join in, as it was just before the end of the school day.

It was a beautiful, blue-sky day...

The wind took them easily away in minutes...

And an email arrived that same evening to say one had come down in St Ives in Cambridgeshire which, according to Google, just over 100 miles away northwards.