Pupils Gather to Remember the Fallen

Left to right: Sam Hirsch (Bridgnorth Air Training Corps 63 Squadron), and James Palmer and Ollie Fowler (Shropshire Rifles, Bridgnorth detachment)

Bridgnorth Endowed honoured those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country at a touching Armistice Remembrance event held in school on Thursday morning.

Led by Year 11 students, Ollie Fowler and James Pennington, the ceremony was attended by dozens of pupils and staff, including uniformed representatives from the Cadets, Guides and Scouts.

Ahead of the wreath laying, carried out by Head Boy and Girl, Tom Clayden and Ellie Conner, each Form Rep stepped forward to place a single wooden poppy cross at the school’s memorial plaque.

James Pennington went on to share a poignant extract from a family member’s World War I diary, and Tom and Ellie read well-known war poem In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae.

The assembled crowd then observed the two-minute silence, which was broken by The Last Post being played on the trumpet. Well done to the students who organised the whole event themselves.

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