Armed Forces Day and Eat like a Tommy!

On the 27th June Great Wyrley High School hosted 'Eat like a Tommy Day'-an event that was intended to mark the centenary of the First World War and give the students of Great Wyrley a small glimpse of what the food was like for an ordinary soldier.  The catering staff did a fantastic job of the food-it was delicious! Each dish had a special reference to an aspect or key theme of the First World War and they were largely based on dishes that...

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Great Wyrley High School has Poppies!

A while back I posted about the lack of poppies, wondering when or if they would sprout! Well-ta da!-here they are- If you would like to see the poppies they are in the quad area.  We have planted them to create a visual commemoration for those that sacrificed their lives during the First World War....

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The Men who Fought in War. By Lauren Williams

A man went to war hoping for some fame, some fortune, to have medals under his belt.   The man went to win the war. All he thought while he fought was about the fame.   But then one night BANG! The explosion went off and killed the man who fought in war.   And when he died the fame didn't matter anymore as he died he thought about his family-   thought hard and wished his family could hear his message: 'Darlings, I am lost- but keep cheering on the men who are still fighting. Let's win this war!   But...

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Great Wyrley's visit to the National Memorial Arboretum-by Ryan Gardner & Lalita Bhatia

We went to the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas to commemorate those who lost their lives in the war. Around 29 of Year 9s and 10s visited because it’s been a century since First World War began. We walked around the Arboretum and visited many memorials of names of endless soldiers who died in the many wars we’ve had. The memorials were trees or plaques but one in particular was of a numerous posts where soldiers were tied to...

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Eat like a Tommy Day

Posters are now up advertising the 'Eat like a Tommy Day' taking place on 27th June at Great Wyrley High School.  We are pleased to be commemorating the centenary in unique ways and this will be a 'taster' of an element of trench life for our students at Great Wyrley.  There will be allsorts of food on offer ranging from curry to stew; fish pie to milk biscuit pudding and a special free treat on offer. To keep you informed...

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Where are our Poppies??

At the start of this academic year in autumn a Great Wyrley High School student did a very important job-he sowed some wild poppy seeds in the quad.  We thought it would be a nice idea to have some wild poppies growing on the school site as a commemoration in light of this year's centenary. But....they have not yet appeared.  I am not much of a gardener and do not know a lot about flowers-any ideas of when they usually start to appear?...

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Did Tommies eat rats????

Whenever we think about Tommies in the trenches of the First World War, we think about mud, trench foot and a questionable diet.  Is it true that Tommies survived on rock hard biscuits and the occasional rat to satisfy their ever-increasing hunger?  Or was their diet a little better than what we think? I have been looking into this recently in anticipation of launching an 'Eat like a Tommy' day at the school I teach at in Walsall,...

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