{"id":8741,"date":"2021-11-15T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2021-11-15T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:35:07","slug":"pupils-gather-to-remember-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/pupils-gather-to-remember-the-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupils Gather to Remember the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Left to right: Sam Hirsch (Bridgnorth Air Training Corps 63 Squadron), and James Palmer and Ollie Fowler (Shropshire Rifles, Bridgnorth detachment)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Pennington went on to share a poignant extract from a family member\u2019s World War I diary, and Tom and Ellie read well-known war poem In Flanders Fields<\/em>, written by John McCrae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n