The Student Council join the tributes and services as they also remember the fallen at the Annual Remembrance Service in Central Park. The Student Council left school early in the morning to attend the commemoration service that marked the end to the years of war in 1916.

The students wore their poppies with pride and listened carefully to the readings and poems presented at the ceremony, about the life at the war. Many other primary and secondary schools in Newham attended – despite their faith – to acknowledge the significance of Newham raised soldiers in the fighting.

It was indeed a very solemn, but proud day, both for our fallen and our students…