THE SIBFORDIAN 2018 E


very year, as part of our end of term Curriculum Enrichment


Week, Year 9 travel to France and Belgium to visit the battlefields of World War 1 and the War Graves.


This year’s visit was particularly poignant as 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the war.


Sunken Lane at The Somme ... pupils looked at photographs of troops sitting behind the front line while sitting in almost identical positions.


As a pre-cursor to their excursion, Year 9 spent the first day of CEW looking at Peace and Reconciliation.


Activities included: * Weeding and planting


roses in our Peace Garden.


* Making clay poppies which, once fired, are due to be placed on display in the Peace Garden.


* Using drama to illustrate the horrors of trench life.


We were delighted to be joined


by Maud Grainger from Friends House who spoke about conscientious


objectors and the Friends Ambulance Unit and also by Toni and Sandi Lewis, parents of former Sibford pupil Conrad who was killed on 9 February 2011 while serving in Afghanistan.


The football themed monument which commemorates soldiers who took part in friendly football matches on some sites of the front line during the first Christmas of the First World War .


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Some of the many sites visited in France and Belgium included Sanctuary Wood, Menin Gate, Sunken Lane, Hawthorn Ridge Crater, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Langemark German Military Cemetery and Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the world


Pupils also had the opportunity to stop off at Flanders Fields to see the monument which


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