Armistice Day: Marlow pupils create poppy art piece from bottles

Teacher Kat Joseph-Stewart said she was emotional when she saw the finished display

Students at a school have turned 1,600 plastic bottles into a poppy "wave" art installation ahead of Armistice Day.

Teacher Kat Joseph-Stewart, from Great Marlow School in Buckinghamshire, was inspired by a display she saw at the Tower of London.

Students from different year groups spent five weeks cutting and gluing plastic bottles into poppy shapes.

The art and design teacher said the project had been a "labour of love".

Pupils helped collect bottles before they were transformed into poppies

Ms Joseph-Stewart said she was inspired by Paul Cummins' 2014 Tower of London poppy display, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.

Students cut, heated, sprayed and glued bottles to turn them into poppies.

There is one flower for each pupil and staff member at the school.

The poppies were then woven together to form a wave and excess flowers were planted by the school entrance.

Ms Joseph-Stewart said she was proud of her students and it was "lovely to see them get so excited about it"

Students also helped make an "unknown" soldier sculpture and commemorative plaque as part of the Remembrance installation.

The display was finished on Thursday and the school hope to keep the installation up as long as possible.

"We are so proud of the finished outcome and hope it serves as a place of solace for those who wish to stand before it, to honour the service of our armed forces," Ms Joseph-Stewart said.

"It looks really spectacular when it's lit up in the evening."