High Prairie Elementary School marked Remembrance Day with an assembly Nov. 6 with several members of the High Prairie branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. The ceremony was presented by students in the Grade 5-6 class of teacher Joanne Murphy and Grade 5 class of teacher Kim Corless. Students sang In Flanders Field and read a Remembrance Day poem War is Not a Video Game and other readings. Videos about Veterans and Remembrance Day were also viewed. Videos included Soldier’s Cry and Highway of Heroes.
Grade 5 student Silas Baptist, carries the Canadian flag followed by Grade 6 student Kable Tarzwell, to lead the colour party ahead of Cadet Amelia Kemp, of the 539 Cadets High Prairie, Legion president Don Ebbett, other Legion members and the High Prairie RCMP in the school Remembrance Day assembly.Holding lighted candles, students in the Grade 5 class of teacher Kim Corless sing In Flanders Fields led by music teacher Crystal Larose. Left-right, are Skylar Willier, Abrielle Willier-Barber, Joyce Gadwa-Janvier, Cooper MacRoberts, Maggy Burgar, Darien Alook and Sebastian Yep.Members of the High Prairie branch of the Royal Canadian Legion and the 539 Cadets High Prairie stand for the national anthem O Canada. Left-right, are Cadet Amelia Kemp, Legion president Don Ebbett, Legion member George Bennett, aged 102, and Legion member Ron McLean.Braylee Auger, Grade 5, left, and Chloey MacRoberts, Grade 6, read about remembering Indigenous Soldiers.Grade 5 students Ddendyll Sheane, left, and Andrew Hartwig recite the poem War is Not a Video Game.Grade 5 students Tiffany Biener, left, and Reese Boisson read Commitment to Remember that ends – “We will remember them!”Daylen Gordey, Grade 5, left, and Brandt Quartly, Grade 6, were the masters of ceremonies for the Remembrance Day assembly.
