Pupils and staff across the three Bedales Schools came together to mark Remembrance Day.

They gathered outside the Memorial Library that commemorates those who died in the First World War.

Dunhurst pupils read The Owl by poet Edward Thomas, before the choir performed music by Henry Purcell.

Bedales student Sukey Ridge read The Autumn of the World by Sir Herbert Read, a First World War officer who later wrote the influential book Education Through Art illustrated by Bedales and Dunhurst pupils artwork.

After two minutes’ silence at 11am, pupils performed The Last Post and Reveille.

Dunannie Year 3 children also visited Steep Nursing Home to give residents poppies and read poems they had written, and at a Remembrance assembly, deputy head Sharon Rose spoke about the significance of the poppy.

At a Remembrance assembly at Bedales, students heard Old Bedalian Ferenc Békássy’s poem 1914 read in English and Hungarian.

He is one of only two people connected with Bedales to have died fighting for the opposition, but he is on the Memorial Library’s roll of honour in tribute to the fallen on both sides.