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L to R; Mr Finlan (Deputy Head), Mrs Woodend (Head Teacher) with the Peace Field Poppy Ball and Mr Long Abbey School PFP Project Manager

Making History

The Abbey School, Peace Fields Project ceremony was attended by over 500 participants from eight local primary schools, staff, volunteers, supporters and distinguish guests. Special guest Paul Cooper, National Projects Director, NCFA, said, ‘The Abbey School pupils and staff have clearly embraced essence of the Peace Fields Project.  I was very impressed with the school’s exhibition and the staffs enthusiasm for supporting their pupils’ project work.’

Helen Whately, MP for Faversham, said, ‘The Peace Fields Project twinned The Abbey Schools playing fields with one of the most famous areas of peace in history.  It is great, Faversham has a Peace Pitch that we can all be proud of.  A First World War centenary legacy produced by young people in memory of all the war dead ‘

Special guests Tom Gates, President Faversham Branch of the Royal British Legion, Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayoress for Faversham, Rosalind Meredith, Director of Maidstone Museum, Dr Emma Hannah, University of Kent, John Quested, Chairman, Royal British Legion, Reverend Simon Young and the primary schools footballers, witnessed the official signing of the Declaration for Peace and an outstanding Last Post, which officially twinned The Abbey Schools football pitches with Flanders Peace Field, Messines, Belgium – sit of the 1914 Christmas Truces.

All Together Now. Abbey School Peace Tournament featuring local primary schools

L-R. Mrs Woodend (Headteacher) and Mr Long (Project Manager) proudly display their Peace Field Project plaque and picture

L-R. Reverend Simon Young, Helen Whately, MP for Faversham and Tom Gates, President Faversham Branch for the Royal British Legion

Paul Cooper, National Projects Director, NCFA (centre) just before signing the Declaration for Peace.

Twinning Ceremony Programme

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Living History

Abbey School WW1 Nurses

 Pupils experience First World War medical care for the soldiers.

Some comments from the pupils.

‘I got to role play, it was fun and very informative’.  ‘ It was fun’. ‘Interactive and fun’.  ‘I loved the work shop as we saw all of the weapons and how they were used. The nurses role to was very interesting’.  ‘We got to dress up and learn lots of amazing things’.  ‘Really cool workshop’.  ‘It was very interesting to find out what it was like to fight in the First World War’.  ‘Fun and different’.  ‘The workshop was interactive and they told the facts in an unusual way’.  ‘Amazing’. ‘I had no idea about the class structure in First World War until this project’.

Gateways to the First World War

Lecture by Dr Emma Hannah

At University of Kent

Abbey PFP Team at Kent Uni_w300_169Abbey School attended the Gateways to the First World War lecture given by Dr Emma Hannah.  The Abbey School were awarded for their exemplary  input at the lecture. Pupil S Elysee collected the award on behalf of his school he said, ‘we really enjoy the lecture and visiting Kent University’.

ABBEY SCHOOL VISIT YPRES

On a beautiful autumnal day Year 9 students from the Abbey School again marked the centenary of the First World War with their annual visit to the Ypres Salient. The school visited a number of cemeteries as well as battlefield sites. At Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth War Cemetery in the world, a wreath was laid on behalf of the school by Kiran Cornish, Katy Collins and Lucy Shepherd.

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The visit also gave students an opportunity to see what trench warfare was like by visiting a recreated trench network and underground bunker whilst looking around the Passchendaele Memorial Museum. Here students could experience first hand what a trench system was like and experience the living conditions so many soldiers faced. A final site visit to Hill 60 enabled students to see how some of the landscape was dramatically changed by the war by visiting two huge craters created as a result of massive underground explosions.

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The day finished with the Last Post service under the Menin Gate which was a poignant way to end a fantastic trip, and enabled the school to pay their respects to all the men and women who gave their lives during the First World War.

ABBEY SCHOOL’S 1000 POPPIES ON REMEMBRANCE DAY

Remembrance Day had an extra special impact this year at The Abbey School. Hundreds of Abbey pupils helped to make over a 1,000 poppies during their art lessons. Mrs J Hobbs and Miss E jones supported the pupils in making the poppies. On the eve of Remembrance Day pupils and staff helped to complete the powerful display, setting up a corridor within the school with over a 1,000 poppies hanging along the walls. The display provided a beautiful surprise for staff and pupils on the morning on Remembrance Day to walk through the display. This “pop up” art display made a special touch to Remembrance Day and helped further build on the work the school has been involved in this year with the Peace Fields Project.

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Kent County Council’s, Registration, Libraries and Archives

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Abbey School pupils kick off their Peace Fields Project.

Abbey School kicked off their Peace Fields Project with the NCFA and Kent County Council’s Libraries, Registration & Archives workshop. Project Manger Mr Long said, ‘The pupils really enjoyed the lesson and they are now looking forward to fully engaging in researching local First World War history.  The pupils reported back that the session was very interesting in terms of contextualizing sport in the period of the First World War with sport in Faversham today.

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