Bablake Remembers

Bablake Junior School and Pre Prep take part in memorial activities on Armistice Day.

Pre Prep pupils were given a special assembly on the topic of Remembrance Day by Headteacher, Mrs Horton, who started the assembly by testing the children’s memories with a little task. She then went on to ask the children what they thought the poppy stands for and if they knew what day it was. The children answered her questions about Remembrance Day or ‘Poppy Day’ with very intelligent answers about the reasons we wear poppies and who we are remembering. Mrs Horton ended her assembly by showing the children a video about how the poppies are made, how the money for poppies help soldiers and their families and what happens on Remembrance Sunday.

At the Junior School pupils gathered in the playground just before 11am to observe the two minutes silence. Mr Norman read an extract from ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon and Mr Cooper played the Last Post to mark the beginning and the end of the two minutes silence. The children were extremely respectful and were perfectly silent whilst they thought about the meanings behind Remembrance Day.  

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning,

We will remember them.

‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon