On Monday 11th November Wakefield Girls’ joined with QEGS and Pre-Prep to pause and remember the service, dedication and sacrifice of our Armed forces community, from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The morning assembly was themed around Service and remembrance of previous students at WGHS such as Augusta Myers who was part of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force 

who sacrificed her education to help in the war efforts. At 10.58am students coordinated in each school to play The Last Post, signalling the start of the two minute silence. In room 19, which is used to host our Remembrance service and lay our wreath,both students and staff gathered to pay their respects.

Between April 1917 and April 1919 Wentworth House, our main school building, was used as an auxiliary military hospital. Nearly 4,000 wounded soldiers were treated by volunteer local doctors and nurses. A plaque is located in room 19 which has been preserved with its original wooden panelled walls and beams,the same as during the war.  Poppies have been available to purchase throughout the week in school. All funds raised by poppy sales will be donated to The Royal British Legion, to support veterans, serving personnel, and their families. Poppies were chosen to represent Remembrance because despite the bleak and destroyed landscape throughout the Western Front, the resilient Flanders poppy still managed to grow. 

Lest we forget.