Activities and events
Remembrance Service
This term the children have been learning about World war One. The boys particularly enjoyed learning about the more gruesome details of war including: trench foot, trench lice and trench rats!! As part of the unit, we visited the local war memorial and the children researched the names of those from the surrounding area who had died in the Great War. The children then chose one name which they wrote onto a poppy cross.
We also held a non-uniform day to raise money for the Royal British Legion and the Barnstaple and Lynton Railway where the children came to school dressed in black and red (poppy colours).
To round off the unit the children from the Federation attended Woody Bay Station for a Remembrance service on 11th November. The Bishop of Crediton conducted a service which culminated with the children laying the poppies they had annotated in a ‘garden of Remembrance’. The children had previously visited local war memorials and copied a name of a fallen person onto a poppy cross. To end the day, the children rode on a newly renovated locomotive which had been used in the trenches in World War 1.
