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Christmas 2014
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WW1 Remembrance, Recycling, Commonwealth Games, Anti-bullying star, Sports Results, Belgium Trip, Cookery Competition & much more!
We will Remember Them - Ringwood Marks the 100th Anniversary of the Outbreak of World War 1
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special week of commemoration for the lives lost in WW1 took place at Ringwood School from Monday 20th October, in recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities. Throughout the week, there were special assemblies for all students, alongside a commemorative concert performed on the Monday evening, comprising of poetry, readings, dance, drama and music as well as photography and film. The concert was a moving and thought provoking evening, during which students showed maturity and respect in their performances. At the end of the concert, a collection shared between Help for Heroes and The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal was taken. All in all across the week, a total of £1629.12 was raised for the charity, a significant contribution that was very gratefully received. The school also created a display of photographs brought in by students and staff, of relatives they lost during the war, which is on view in the Learning Resource Centre. Many staff members have also rediscovered medals and memorabilia from relatives involved in the Great War, which are on display in reception and the History Department. A beautiful rendering of the Tower of London Cascade can be seen in the
are another reminder. As part of the school's remembrance, the Art Department created a tower encompassing one of the trees onsite, around which every student and member of staff ‘planted’ poppies, in tribute to the display at the Tower of London. Every single poppy was carefully hand crafted by our students. As they planted their poppies, students contemplated the lives lost during the war, and the meaning of the sacrifice all those who signed up to the Allied Forces made in the name of duty. Among the fallen were more than a hundred soldiers from Ringwood, a small village at that time.
end stairwell of the main building, and poppies hung in the corridor to the Hall
On Armistice Day, a delegation of students and staff visited the Cenotaph Memorial – students read aloud the names of the Ringwood residents who fell during the war, whilst personalised poppy crosses were laid on the memorial. Many of those present know of someone in their own families who was lost during World War 1. On this 100th Anniversary, We Remembered Them.