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BBG Bulletin Issue 79 ISSUE 79 16th November 2018 Following on from the moving Remembrance performance in Morley Town Hall last week, BBG have continued to mark the 100th Centenary of the Armistice with a range of occasions. 40 students from all year groups have taken part in the Menin Gate parade in Ypres; Year 8 Community Champions represented BBG during the Schools’ Armistice Parade in Cleckheaton and Year 11 students represented BBG in the Birkenshaw and East Bierley Acts of Remembrance commencing at St Paul’s Church in Birkenshaw. Armistice Day Remembrance Service for schools Neve Brier, Mathew Dalton, Louis Evans, Aiden Ibberson Amelia Preece, Caitlyn Murphy, Darcy Nicholson, Lucy Taylor, Georgina Legg represented BBG, laying a wreath on behalf of the students and staff. Birkenshaw and East Bierley Acts of Remembrance Harriet Rushworth, Nathan Wood, Mathew Dawson and Harriet Wilkinson all represented BBG, laying wreaths on behalf of staff and students Photo by Tony Preece 32 BBG Students, alongside 10 students from The Brayton Academy were fortunate enough to travel to Belgium to join in the 100 year commemorative parade at The Menin Gate in Ypres. The Battlefields tour was arranged by Miss Binns and boasted a fantastic itinerary, unlikely to be topped until Miss Sanderson informed us that she had managed to arrange, through her band contacts, a spot in the Parade that would march in front of Cloth Hall to The Menin Gate as part of the Commemoration of 100 Years since the end of WW1. Students and staff were privileged to join the parade with existing and past service men and women and Miss Sanderson with her band, The West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Band. It was an incredible honour to walk alongside those who serve our country and relatives of those who lost their lives in the Great War. To be at The Menin Gate on the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month, 100 years on will be a lasting memory for both students and staff alike and we would like to thank Miss Sanderson, Miss Binns and The West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service Band for giving us that opportunity and lifelong proud memory. The jampacked itinerary on day one took us to The Menin Gate, the ‘In Flanders Field’ museum in the fabulous Cloth Hall, the Passchendaele 1917 Memorial Museum, and we attended the Last Post at Menin Gate at 8pm. Every night at 8.00pm a moving ceremony takes place under the Menin Gate in Ieper - Ypres. The Last Post Ceremony has become part of the daily life in Ieper (Ypres) and the local people are proud of this simple but moving tribute to the courage and self-sacrifice of those who fell in defence of their town. The Passchendaele 1917 Memorial Museum preserves the history of the Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, which was fought on the Western Front from July to November 1917 between Allied forces. Despite the necessity of the campaign, the number of casualties sustained during the battle (217,000 Allied forces killed and 49,000 missing in the 5 months it was fought; the first 30,000 on the first day and over 100,000 in the first 100 days. The Germans, in conservative estimates, lost over 400,000 men in the same time period) for what was only eight kilometres of gained ground led commentators to conclude that Passchendaele was a dark, tragic moment in warfare as a whole. In his memoirs of 1938, David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister at the time of the campaign wrote, "Passchendaele was indeed one of the greatest disasters of the war ... No soldier of any intelligence now defends this senseless campaign ...". The renovated museum is housed in the historic château grounds of Zonnebeke and really gave the students a practical experience of what the trenches were like and what it must have been like to fight in the Great War. The tour gave the students a unique Dugout Experience; they discovered how the British went to live underground in 1917. An oppressive experience that created a disconcerting picture of the miserable and claustrophobic living conditions at that time. The visit concluded at the faithful reconstruction of German and British trenches, along which original shelters have been replicated. In the second part of the trip we focused our tours in Northern France. There are 410 Commonwealth Cemeteries situated in France, we chose the biggest and the most visited as two of our three. Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of 11,954 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces. This is the largest number of burials contained in any Commonwealth cemetery of either the First or Second World War. It is the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world. We took the time to lay crosses by the names of many soldiers who served from the surrounding areas of BBG. Essex Farm cemetery is famous for two people; The 15- year-old Valentine J Strudwick, the youngest recorded British soldier to be killed in action at the age of just 15, and Lieutenant Colonel Dr John McCrae, Consultant Physician to the First British Army and author of the poem “In Flanders Fields”. After the war, the bunkers were used as homes by the local people who had lost their homes dues to the war, even used as cow sheds…now restored and maintained by The War Graves Commission The Battle of the Somme was a series of battles fought by the armies of the British and French allies against the German Empire. It took place over three phases between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the River Somme in France. The offensive was one of the largest of World War I, in which more than 1,000,000 men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history. To give an example of the scale of the loss, on the first day of the Somme alone, during the Battle of Albert, 72,000 men were killed, among them 19,240 men of the British 4th Army. We visited the Lochnagar Crater in La Boiselle. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 2 large mines were detonated with 26.8tons of explosives. The sound of the explosion was heard all the way in London. Earth was thrown 4,000ft in the air and before it landed the British assault had begun.., only to fail. The crater the explosive left is 300ft (91 metres) across 70ft (21mtrs) deep and still very much part of the landscape. Our final stop was the Newfoundland Memorial Cemetery. There aren’t many places where the ground has been undisturbed since the end of the First World War. However, the Newfoundland Memorial Park, near Beaumont Hamel, is one of those, and one of the largest areas on the Western Front where shell-holes and the trenches of both sides can still be clearly seen and even entered and walked along. The losses sustained by the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel on 1 July 1916 were staggering. Of the some 800 Newfoundlanders who went into battle that morning, only 68 were able to answer the roll call the next day, with more than 700 killed, wounded or missing Unlike many other areas on 1 July Somme attacks, the Allied advance here was actually downhill. However, there was no cover, and the advancing troops were met by machine-gun fire. About half-way across No Mans Land is the Danger Tree – a preserved tree, thought to be original, which probably marks about the limit of any Newfoundlander’s advance that day. Thiepval Memorial is dedicated to the Missing of the Somme, it is a memorial to those British and South Africa servicemen who went missing on the Somme between 1915 and 1918 and is the largest Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing in the world. Designed by Sir Edward Lutyens and constructed between 1928 and 1932, it's 16 'legs' hold 64 panels, 48 of which are inscribed with the names of 72,246 servicemen whose bodies were never found. Over 90% of the names were soldiers who died in the first battle of the Somme which took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 This one was special for us because Joe Bancroft’s relative’s name could be found on pillar 16a Lance Corporal Arthur Bastick. Joe was able to lay a cross at the base of the pillar. Zara Blockley spent a weekend away from horses this weekend and took the family cows to Thirsk Rising Stars Multi breed Calf Show @ Thirsk Cattle market, along with her cousin Clark Blockley from 7.3. After spending all week after school walking and washing to get them ready for the event, they achieved 1st, 2nds and 3rds reserve champion Zara is pictured with Southfield, Sapphire who is 8 months old and Clark is with Southfield Storm who is also 8 months old. subject news Rise and Read – a love of reading Our Year 7 students have been enjoying their new Rise and Read groups over the last fortnight. Students were asked to choose from a range of 7 Rise and Read options for the ½ term until Christmas, so that they were involved in reading options that would inspire and motivate them to continue reading widely and recognise the importance literacy plays in their wider lives outside of school. The students could choose from either: A Carnegie Book group (reading the 7 novels shortlisted for last year’s prize and following the model of the Carnegie shadowing group, completing and publishing their own reviews on them) A news and sports group (looking at sport in the news, either in newspapers or online on the IPads) An accelerated reading group (building on the lessons they complete in school, where they can choose their own books and quiz on them) A novel into film group (where students read novels and watch the film version of them, comparing the differences and storyboarding their own versions) A graphic novels group (reading and creating their own graphic novels) Two ‘group readers’ (reading a novel as a class in line with the ability of the students) We have been really pleased with the positivity of the students regarding their choices and hope they continue to enjoy this half term, before they choose new choices for the new year.
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