Remembrance Day

Radford School students and staff commemorated Remembrance Day on Friday, 11 November.

Students were reminded of the importance of 11 am on 11 November 1918, when the guns on the Western Front in Europe fell silent after four years of continuous warfare. With their armies retreating and close to collapse, German leaders signed an Armistice, ending the First World War.

As a mark of respect to those who have died and suffered, students and staff across the school observed a one-minute silence at 11 am.

Year 10 students also laid wreaths at the flag poles in the turning circle outside before they observed the minute's silence.

The Ode
A verse from the poem, For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon

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.
Lest we forget