York House School Blog
Senior students read letters & poems during the Remembrance Day ceremony on November 8, 2012. One letter read was from a 90-year-old veteran of World War II, who has lived in a rehabilitation centre for 30 years due to his wartime injuries and posttraumatic stress disorder.
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A special guest at the Remembrance Day ceremony was former Flight Officer McKay. She talked to students about her last year in the Air Force:
When World War II started, YHS was a very new school – just seven years old. Students at York House were very involved and affected by WWII. In the YHS “Chronicle” there are many pieces of writing and artwork by students that were done during the war. Junior students shared these pieces during their Remembrance Day Ceremony on November 8, 2012.
‘The Social Service Club’ is about the war effort at YHS. Yorkies also used the war effort as inspiration for their creative writing. ‘Knitting Needles’ is a piece by Yorkie Rosemary Orchardson. ‘Downtown on V-E Day’ is a piece by Yorkie Marilyn McLallen about the celebrations in Vancouver on V-E Day:
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On November 7, the Grade 5s had a special visitor courtesy of The Memory Project. An RCMP officer and veteran came to talk about Remembrance Day and his experiences in Afghanistan: