Chaddleworth St Andrew’s & Shefford schools present ‘We will remember them’

Reverend Miri Keen has asked us to circulate the following:
​Chaddleworth & Shefford Schools  present:
 
We will remember them
  
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.”                
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After a century, no one is left who remembers putting on a uniform and going off to Ypres or the Somme.  And yet every November the millions of dead cry out to us to remember – and to learn by what happened to them.
In this centenary of the Great War’s ending, the children of Chaddleworth & Shefford Schools will be, literally, giving voices to the Dead.  Speaking the words of men and women and children who were there, they will conjure up a vivid picture of life in the trenches, hospitals, at home in Britain.
The hope, of course, is not just to offer their audience a moving act of remembrance but to turn history into a memorable experience that will have the children identifying with real-life soldiers, nurses and civilians.
 
The children and staff very much hope you will want to be part of this special
Armistice event. 
Chaddleworth St Andrew’s & Shefford Federated C of E schools
present
‘We will remember them’
on
Tuesday 6th November   10.15a.m.       
by Geraldine McCaughrean
at
St. Stephen’s church
Shefford Woodlands
 
We hope you will stay to have
refreshments after the performance.
 
Please let Mrs Nutley in the School Office know if you are able to come.
tel: 01488 648657

The Pew Sheet for Sunday 4th November can be downloaded here