Today
Weather woes
Hard time for ground-staff
Last 3 Months
Students at the Fashion Show
Education & Fun – The Clothes Show Live
Michael Jack visits Arnold
Academic Society quizzes local MP
The Christmas Teatime Concert
Our musicians welcome in the holiday season
Thank you!
Retiring staff
Jenny takes the award
The Moseley Sixth Form Essay Prize
Cologne here we come!
The Choir visits Germany
Travel Gives Back
Old Arnoldian inspires industry
Your Choir needs you!
Vote online
Chess Club
New chance to get "board"
Journey’s End...
...marks end of series
Oliver - the official review of opening night
A magnificent show
World Book Day
Telling tales
Oliver
The matinee performance plays to a packed house
Small change challenge
Every penny counts
Hard Spell
Winning Words for School!
Activity Morning
Loads of fun for everyone
CCF Inspected
Brigadier Robertson visits cadets
Passing of Jack Conchie (1933-2008)
Former teacher dies after long illness
Academic Society
Pause for thought
Arnold hosts nurses' conference
School nurses enjoy their day in Blackpool
Great night for Drama
Five win NODA's
Semi-final Songsters
Choir in BBC competition
Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights
A celebration of the Hindu New Year, the passage from darkness to light
Looking Ahead
An invitation to join the Sixth Form
Quiet times
Pupils have time to reflect
A Service of Celebration
Our choristers sing in Lincoln Cathedral
Open Evening
So much to see!
OA wins National Award
Hospital Pharmacist of the Year
Cadets remember the fallen
Our CCF cadets parade at the Cenotaph
Network rail
Can the Sixth Form solve the problem?
Booked Up, Fully Booked!
Year 7 worm their way through the titles
Tea Time Concert
Middle School musicians make music for Village Aid
The Old Arnoldians London Dinner
On board the HQS Wellington
Junior School Maths Day
Top mathematicians compete at school
A Tale of Two Cities
Old Arnoldian performs in London
Ailsa looks back
The school has been running visits to the Ypres Salient in Belgium and the Somme in France since the early 1990’s under the leadership of the Head of History, Mr John Davey. He is a great believer in the value of such trips as they support GCSE studies. “Trips of this nature are vital to help pupils really understand the cost of war, and bring home just what a profound social and economic impact the Great War had on this country.”
Ailsa knew that her great great uncle, Second Lieutenant Alexander Henry McCullagh of the Royal Enniskillin Fusiliers, had fought and died in the First World War in the Ypres Sector. By visiting the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website she was able to track down his grave to New Irish Farm Cemetery. After a quick word with Mr Davey, he arranged for the school party to visit the cemetery so that she could pay her respects to her late relative, and sign the cemetery visitors’ book.
Ailsa said of her visit: “He was only 21 when he died, and I felt quite emotional and privileged, as I am the first member of our family to visit his grave.”
Posted by: J R Davey
Date: Thursday 16/03/2006
