60th Anniversary Commemoration of Victory in Europe (VE Day) was celebrated in style at the College, where the Year Two children in the Pre-Prep wore red, white and blue rosettes they had made in the classroom and waved flags they had drawn and coloured themselves. They played games from the 1940s like Beetle Drive and Oranges and Lemons, ate cakes decorated in red, white and blue iced by the children, with sandwiches and biscuits that would have been available at the end of the War. The party finished with singing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, ‘Rule Britannia’, and ‘God save the Queen’. It was a really enjoyable event where history came to life for today’s six-year olds at the end of a theme on the War, during which they had also played the role of evacuees at RAF Hendon, and explored the concepts of rationing and air raids through the visits to the school of relatives who remembered the days of the Blitz.                                                                  Jane Perkins