This week, the children have been learning about the significance of the VE Day Anniversary Celebrations. For lunch on Thursday, they were treated to street party food, and Mr Sharpe led a Collective Worship discussing the importance of the people who fought in the Armed Services during the war. As our Christian Value this term is ‘Service’, the children have been learning about what this means in the context of the Second World War, and that due to the service given by others during this difficult time, we have a (reasonably) free and fair society. Mrs Hawker showed the children a small section of the speech given by the King at the celebrations on Thursday evening, where he said:
“Just as those exceptional men and women fulfilled their duty to each other, to humankind, and to God, bound by an unshakeable commitment to nation and service, in turn it falls to us to protect and continue their precious legacy – so that one day hence generations yet unborn may say of us: ‘they too bequeathed a better world”
