Students were given the chance to reflect upon all those who have lost their lives in war and consider the act of remembrance as a way of preserving our family and national identity.

Headteacher, Mr House, talked to all the students about why the Remembrance ceremony is always held at 11.00am on 11^th November, when World World I finished in 1918, and about the significance of red poppies. He shared a letter written by Private Charles P Johnson to his family back home, which contained a pressed red poppy:

"Just a few lines to wish you many happy returns of the day.
I am sorry I cannot send you anything along, but I have picked a flower in the dead of night on that space between
the trenches that are called No Man’s Land.
I hope you will treasure it.
I was sniped at many a time,
going out for them but with lying flat
I managed to get one."

The school community then listened in silence to a poem
For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon (1914):

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

The assembly concluded with a minute's silence.