Waihao Downs School pupils hold individual poppies they made and gather around the large one which will be part of a Poppy Day parade in Waimate on April 17.
The large poppy, designed by the school and featuring 61 poppies individually made by its pupils, will go on the World War 1 memorial gates at Victoria Park, while the individual poppies will be put outside the town's community centre.
Waihao Downs' poppy will be placed on the gates by brothers Joshua (5) and Isaac (8) Prattley.
The school is one of nine schools, including Waimate High School, in the district each designing and making a large poppy for the gates.
For the past week pupils, divided in to mixed age groups, have been studying and taking part in Easter and Anzac activities.
The Poppy Day parade down Waimate's main street to mark the centenary of World War 1 will involve hundreds of people, from pre-schoolers to war veterans.
It will start at 11am from the corner of Queen and Rugby Sts with horses, vintage cars, floats, war veterans, red cross, nurses, and the Salvation Army.
At the Queen and High Sts intersection, the parade will be joined by young people, schools and the theatre youth group.
It will continue south, passing the World War 2 clock tower memorial and knitted poppies outside the community centre, to the corner of Queen St and Mill Rd, where it will be joined by pre-school children and mothers and babies, for a block's walk to the memorial gates.
There will then be a short memorial service, which will include representatives from the schools who will hang their poppies on the gates.
The Poppies of Flanders Field will be read and the Last Post played, followed by a prayer and short speech by Waimate Mayor Craig Rowley.
The gates will then be opened and the parade will pass through into Victoria Park between the crosses erected as a roll of honour.
