BBEY LENS January 2018 Vol 4: Issue No.twenty six Excellence Through Partnership
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Happy New Year! Happy, healthy and peaceful.
TIME FOR A NEW CALENDAR
Welcome back to 2018 and we all hope that you had a great time with families. As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to check that you are getting the right information from us. Please link your smartphones to our calendar page http:// www.abbeyfederation.co.uk/diary/grid/2018/1/ to keep up to date with all of our events. The whole of the 2018 academic year is already populated. If you have changed your mobile phone number via a special Christmas present, then please do tell us. We use these contact numbers for texting information to you. THANK YOU [Ed – from the Poppy Appeal] We would like to thank all the children and staff who have donated and help raise this money. The current total for the Smethwick and Bearwood area is £15,983.72. 2018 will be a very significant year for the Royal British Legion, and for the nation, as we mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. The First World War is infamous for the number of lives it cost. However it also generated some extraordinary developments in medicine, warfare, technology and in the global political, social and cultural landscapes. It also laid the foundations of British Remembrance and saw the emergence of the poppy as a universally-recognised symbol of Remembrance and hope. In the final year of the WW1 centenary, The Royal British Legion is inviting the British public to say ‘Thank You’ to the First World War generation who served, sacrificed and changed our world. You and your pupils can join our movement to express their gratitude to those who gave themselves to the war effort, and rebuilt a better nation from its darkest hour.
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