We welcomed Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE, to speak to Year 9 about her experience as the last child saved from Prague by Sir Nicholas Winton on the kindertransport trains which saved 669 children from the Nazis. We're deeply grateful to Lady Milena and the Holocaust Education Trust. 

A special and loving assembly which left us all with much to reflect on. 

Students took time to reflect in a session following on from our Holocaust survivor’s visit on Tuesday. The main focus was on Sir Nicholas Winton and how he organised the kindertransport trains to bring children to safety from Nazi occupied Europe.  

Students have learned about how Sir Nicholas Winton was both an ordinary and an extra-ordinary man who was an everyday citizen but acted decisively to save the lives over 669 children from the Nazis. He quietly set up an organisation to bring trainloads of children from danger to safety in the UK where they were fostered with strangers until permanent arrangements were made. Milena was on these kindertransport. After, he served in WW2 and then returned to civilian life, not claiming credit for his actions until his story was uncovered accidentally by his wife in 1988. 

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