Pupils across the school have been learning about Remembrance Day and why it's so important to remember those who gave their life for us. In Forest School, pupils used leaf stalks and wool to make poppies and all pupils decorated a poppy and wrote the name of someone from Henley who died serving in the Armed Forces. These poppies were put in Holy Trinity churchyard as part of our Remembrance Day service. 

Two Year 6 pupils wrote the following to highlight why Remembrance Day is so important to acknowledge:

Remembrance day is important to us because it is a time to pay respect to the people who died and gave their today for our tomorrow. This international day of reflection brings everyone together, unites even the worst of foes, to ponder how the families of the fallen must have felt with their loved ones' names written on graves. When people march side by side with wreaths of poppies in their palms it reminds us how grateful we should be and we shall have this special day lest we forget. The reason we have this day is so that we don’t take for granted or forget the soldiers who fell on Flanders fields.

At Trinity we’ve also had our personal reflection on what happened to those brave soldiers who gave their lives for our freedom. At Trinity, every pupil crafts a paper poppy on a lolly stick that has a fallen soldier who lived in Henley’s name on it and we put them in the gardens at Trinity church. The lower years learnt songs about remembrance day and on the eleventh of November we walked over to Trinity church. Some students said prayers and we all sang the song ‘World in union’ together, as one. It was a day of remembrance, a day of appreciation – this come-together is a break from thinking about the future, but a time to think about the past and learn from our mistakes not repeat them. 

All in all, here at Trinity we have reflected about remembrance day and all the soldiers who died serving their country. We must be extremely grateful as these soldiers did not want to die, but they made huge sacrifices and we should take a page out of their story and make bold decisions, doing what’s right and not what’s easy.