PUPILS in Stourport have participated in a variety of war commemorations as part of their remembrance.

Stourport High School and Sixth Form Centre students held three assemblies on Armistice Day where they were joined by local dignitaries as well as town veterans.

While primary school pupils from Wilden All Saints, Lickhill and St Wulstan’s, joined together for a remembrance service led by the Rev Eva McIntyre.

Originally planned to take place outdoors, the ceremony had to be moved inside due to the rain.

All the pupils who attended the service, as well as year 8 students at Stourport High School, made poppies which were displayed at the cenotaph during the town’s Remembrance Sunday service.

Each of the poppies bore the name of a service man who died in the First World War and were blessed as part of the Royal British Legion’s procession.

In the run up to Armistice Day, the poppies were displayed in the Co-op Funeral Services shop windows in Lombard Street and Bridge Street.

The Rev McIntyre said: “We had an amazing response to our poppy event from local schools.

“Even though the ceremony on Friday had to be moved indoors due to the rain, we managed to make an occasion of it.”

Other acts of remembrance involved five members of Stourport High School cricket team who volunteered to help restore various war memorials, including the memorial board at Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

The students were also invited by the cricket club to a rededication ceremony at the New Road ground.

Two of the cricket team who volunteered to restore the memorial board, Callum Rowles and Sean Clarke, were rewarded with an all expenses trip to Belgium to aid their history studies.

As part of the trip, which was funded by the British Government, the pair visited two memorials for soldiers who were given no known grave.

While during English lessons at the school, students wrote letters from the fallen, whose names are listed on the school’s memorial board, to relatives back home.