Heights commemorate 100 year WW1 aniversary

Remembrance Day 2018

The whole school gathered for an assembly to recognise 100 years since WW1 ending. Each child in the school decorated a Poppy and to add to our fabulous Enfield Heights whole school Poppy.

Miss Williams played the Last Post on a cornet to signify the beginning and end of the silence. Miss Whitby read the poem In Flanders Field at the end of our assembly.

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In military tradition, The Last Post is the bugle call that signifies the end of the day's activities. It is also sounded at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to his final rest.

In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.