SCHOOLCHILDREN have put on a special Christmas show to mark the centenary of the start First World War.
St Wilfrid’s RC VA Primary School, in Murphy Crescent, Bishop Auckland, held the first of two productions today (Thursday, December 11) based on the Christmas truce football match 100 years ago.
Each year pupils from Year 6 visit the Flanders Field battlefield in Belgium. They visit the museum there and each take stones from County Durham to place on graves of Durham Light Infantry soldiers.
The names of the soldiers are then read out at the school’s Remembrance Day celebrations.
Headteacher Simon Rudd said he was very proud of the pupils.
“They have really enjoyed doing this show and they have put a lot of work in,” he said. “It looks really good and it has gone really well.”
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