The College held its special Remembrance assembly today, made more poignant by the date. The senior school and junior school pupils were present. The Headmistress began the assembly with a short address in which she stressed the importance of remembering those who had died and especially those from Scarborough College whose names were read out. A dramatised presentation of readings from the First World War included Philip Adams reading Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, Beth Nixon reading Vera Brittain’s “To my Brother” and a very touching reading by Anja Puric and Charlotte Osthelder of a German poem by Bertolt Brecht, better known as a dramatist. The texts of the poems are available on the College’s VLE should you wish to read more.
Two minutes’ silence was observed and the CCF provided a wonderful sense of ceremony with a standard bearer and wreath laying. We were grateful to Craig Gaskill, the principal of the Scarborough Campus of Hull University, who played the Last Post and Reveille.
