Remembrance Day 2021

The whole school stood together in solidarity beneath the Skipwith Tower to remember the fallen for Armistice Day 2021.

The service was led by School Chaplain, Revd Chris Briggs with Headmaster Mr Tyrone Howe, who read the Ode of Remembrance. Our thanks goes to Year 9 pupil Elliot Jones who played The Last Post and Mr Steve Macpherson who lowered the Union Jack flag.

Revd Briggs, said: "We gather here on this Armistice Day to remember the men and women of all countries whose lives have been given and taken away in war.

"One hundred and three years ago at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent, and we will keep our own silence as we remember those who fell in World Wars and more recent conflicts, and commit ourselves to the keeping of peace for our generation and those to come."

He then read a poem by Isabelle Hammersley called Field of Poppies:

Row upon row the poppies grow,
Each one a symbol of the brave we know.

They stood before us, they stood straight,
For they were the ones, the brave and the great.

The seasons come, the seasons go,
But the poppies will always grow.

We should wear our poppies with pride,
In tribute to those who fought and died.

Following the silence, Joint Deputy Heads of College, Casey Green and Jai Angell laid a wreath on the memorial stone of Anthony Francis Phillimore at Shiplake Parish Church. Anthony was a local man who died in the Second World War.