On Monday 11 November, the Head Students attended the Remembrance Day Service with the Harpenden Branch of the Royal British Legion. In beautiful sunshine, and surrounded by the autumnal colours of the trees around Church Green, a bugler from the local Salvation Army played The Last Post. The students stood alongside members of the Harpenden community and observed the two minutes silence. Tristan Havemann noted how ‘deeply moving it was to stop and think about the sacrifice of the men and women from our community.’ On behalf of KWS Tristan, Becky Dowse, Thea Okolie, and Jacob Townley laid a poppy wreath at the foot of the memorial. Afterwards one of the RBL representatives came over to speak to the students, and pointed out how ‘many of the local community would have seen that young people such as yourselves came here today, and it would make many of them extremely happy.’ Thea herself reflected afterwards ‘it was a wonderful experience to gather around as a community to pay our respects to soldiers who fought for us.’ KWS has been selling poppies the last two school weeks, and many students have been wearing them with pride for relatives or simply to pay their own respects. In school, the two minutes was observed by watching the live BBC coverage at the Cenotaph. Overall it was a very moving day for KWS.

‘When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.’ – The Kohima Epitaph.