From fireworks to poppies and now on to odd socks, recent DCSF and national traditions have called us to remember and reflect. Through our chapel services and tutor times, we have been asked to consider what we're remembering when we light our bonfires on 5th, hold our silence on 11th or wear strange footwear on 12th. The darker sides of human behaviour are certainly part of it, but remembering how easily we forget is another part: Memories need to be kept alive, we are told, if we are ever to learn.

But more than that, such events teach us about the strength of community and social connections; they help us learn the value of human life and the importance of keeping the peace; they help us face outwards towards each other and not inwards, or simply downwards, towards our mobile phones. Furthermore, by remembering the past together, its narrative becomes integrated into ours and we become more equipped to influence the future for the better.

For this reason (amongst others), it's important too that we create good memories in our own lives. How else do we feed our future years with happiness? And how else can we hand on the baton of happy living to those that follow us? The events we create today will echo down the decades to come creating a narrative that we will, hopefully, want to recall and even pass on.

That Pimlico girls are singing their hearts out in preparation for Monday's House music event is exactly what it's all about. To pull together and to commit time and energy to their song is the reason they will enjoy the event. Many years hence, as the precise details start to fade, (will they even remember the song they sang?), it will be the recollection of being together, of standing strong as a House under Matilda's direction and of singing with pride that they will recall. It will be their collective enjoyment that they remember; the strongest part of the memory.

To fireworks, poppies and odd socks, this week we certainly add music. I hope that House-singing will resonate for years to come as a remarkable moment in the lives of our girls: As a memory never to forget.

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