After a set of very close fixtures against Beaudesert, everyone settled down to a relaxing film and an early bed on Satuday evening.

On Sunday morning all got up in their suits and prepared for the very moving Remembrance Day service. With Remembrance Day only falling on a Sunday one in every six years, this service was all the more special. Mr Kennedy gave an account of his Grand father’s actions leading to his Military Cross during the 1st World War. Annie T read a part of the recently acquired unique poem by John Buchan relating the sad loss of his brother during the war. Mr Hiles played the Last Post on the ‘Eleventh Hour’ and the choir sang beautifully. Mr Humphries of Shrewsbury school gave a moving and thought provoking address. All the while, the younger members of the school especially behaved impeccably.

After the service it was a day of action with swimming, hockey, football, shooting, fishing, bike riding, cricket nets and camp fires in the woods. The first form’s efforts with the camp fires put the older children to shame. The old adage of ‘Time spent in preparation is never wasted’ was shown to be true as a few minutes of careful selection of appropriate wood and the building of a simple ‘wig wam’ fire produced a red hot fire on which bacon and marshmallows were soon sizzling. Smoke was still billowing from the older children’s efforts and they soon siddled over to the younger group to taste their wares.

After a fun-packed day outside everyone settled down to a short time in front of a computer or a game of table tennis, pool or air hockey in the day room before a film ended the weekend.

Mr Richardson