A WINNERSH school was one of many to pause to pay their respects to the Queen.
Students and staff at The Forest School in Robin Hood Lane stood together in the playground to observe a minute’s silence for Her Majesty.
Starting at 8.50am on Friday, September 9 – before lessons started for the day, the school’s headteacher Shirley Austin lead the tributes.
As part of this, she shared 20 significant dates and historical facts from the Queen’s life and reign to which they could relate.
These included 1926 – the year of her birth – was when television was invented.
In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
In 1997, Hong Kong, a former British colony, was returned to China.
Ms Austin made the school community aware of the Queen’s never-ending duty even to the last when she appointed Liz Truss as the nation’s prime minister, just two days before her death.
Ms Austin said: “Once again, she put us, her people first, before herself.
“God Bless Queen Elizabeth, rest peacefully and in your own words, ‘grief is the price we pay for love’.”
