As part of Remembrance Day 2024, staff from QEGS accompanied pupils to a service held at Blackburn Cathedral on Sunday 10th November. Over 10 Pupils and students alongside Mrs Gammon, Mrs Tattersall, Mr Hindle and Mr Hart, attended the annual event, which pays respects to those who gave their lives for their country in the First and Second World War, and conflicts thereafter.
In school, secondary pupils, sixth form students and staff took part in a service to remember those who gave their lives in service of the country, which included a reading from our Head Boy and a poem from our Head Girl.
At 11.00hrs a bell sounded and all pupils and students were asked to stand. The Head then read the well-known words “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.”
This was immediately followed by a two-minute silence which was beautifully observed. After the end of the service, all pupils and students respectfully filed past the War Memorials in secondary school.
Reception pupils from Queen Elizabeth’s Primary School made poppies which they combined and made into a wreath, which was displayed on our War Memorial.
