Remembrance Assembly
This week we came together for a very special Remembrance Assembly for which we had made some beautiful poppies over half term and at our poppy workshop in school on Monday. Our wonderful parents added all the poppies to a poppy tower that was displayed outside the church.
We started our assembly by singing 'Peace Perfect Peace' in our class 'Bubbles' and then Charlie and Poppy did a reading from Micah chapter 4:
In days to come the mountain where the temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it and their people will say, 'Let us go up the Hill to the Lord, to the temple of Israel's God. For he will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the Lord's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people.' He will settle disputes among the nations, among the great powers near and far. They will hammer their swords into ploughs and their spears into pruning knives. Nations will never again go to war, never prepare for battle again. Everyone will live in peace among his own vineyards and fig trees, and no one will make him afraid. The Lord Almighty has promised this.
Mrs Dyer and Blake then read the following ....
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. We will remember them.
We listened to the Last Post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS3TxtGaQ0
For our two minute silence, we watched a video of our poppy tower blowing outside the church:
Beatrice, our youngest child and Kylie, our eldest lay the wreath at the War Memorial and Angus read the Kohima Epitaph.
When you go home tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow we gave our today.
Josh, Izzy and William read 'Flanders Field'.
Bonnie, Hamish, Eleni and Ferris read a prayer with Mrs Stratton and we remembered those from our village who died in the service of our country: Robert Samuel Brand, George Cranwell, Harry Easter, Thomas Enos Green, Charles Healey, Eustace Hooper, Herbert Margham and Leonar Arthur Rogers.
We ended our assembly by having our own time to gather our thoughts. For this we listened to 'Make me a channel of your peace' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihhvm6eLWZI
