Wartime songs, the poignant In Flanders Fields World War One poem and a minute’s silence were the centrepiece of a special Remembrance assembly at Newington Community primary School in Ramsgate.
Pupils have honoured the annual festival which this year marks the centenary of the end with the Great War, as well as other songs included Stop working Your troubles As part of your Old Kit Bag, It’s actually a Ways to Tipperary, and Peace Is Flowing.
As along with performances led by the choir, the university in addition held an arrangement with senior pupils led with the head boy and head girl accepting donations for poppies along with a variety of Remembrance memorabilia including rulers, erasers, wristbands, pencils and pencil sharpeners.
Newington once again aids the Royal British Legion featuring its fundraising having a donation of 200.
Head Teacher Cliff Stokes said: “The assembly was poignant and respectful. Our pupils are aware of the part the fact that world wars play in in cultural historical background and what it means to be proud to generally be British.
“Our children fully understand the sacrifices made by people of various age groups, in particular teenage boys and females, during need to their country in major conflicts inside the Last century and in ongoing conflicts around the globe.
“Engaging together with the whole Remembrance ideal assists in their learning of key dates and events that shaped our history and defended our island nation and it is a feeling of identity. It helped secure humanity on the global scale.”
The Remembrance week celebrations also dovetailed in the school’s regular Taste the World specialist themed cuisine events, together with the latest as a traditional Indian meal menu served inside canteen.
This also tied along with the school’s observance of your Hindu festival of Diwali that symbolises the spiritual “victory of sunshine over darkness, good over evil and data over ignorance.”
Mr Stokes added: “At Newington we’ve been firm believers in embracing all culture and heritage during our ‘one world’ ethos.”
