The Belmont Secondary leadership students participated in the National Virtual Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa via webcast on Friday, November 8th. The leadership students, grades 9, 10, 11, and 12, read In Flanders Fields and asked the troops in Afghanistan three questions. Belmont Secondary was one of six schools that participated in the national event through The Centre for Global Education.
Belmont Secondary leadership students
Belmont’s three questions to the troops:
1) What is most rewarding about your work in Afghanistan?
2) How often do you communicate with family?
3) What language/communication barriers do you face and how do you get around them?
The troops in Afghanistan listening to Belmont Secondary’s three questions
The reading of In Flanders Fields
Leadership students reading In Flanders Fields: Frelen Gorst, grade 11; Julianna MacDonald, grade 12; Shyyon Shakeri, grade 10; Alisa Lindley, grade 10; Nikki Gialet, grade 11.
