On march with hymn of our own
Few schools can claim to have a hymn specially written for them.
But in 1855 Sabine Baring Gould wrote Onward Christian Soldiers, a marching song to help the Victorian schoolchildren of Horbury Bridge, near Wakefield, march a mile uphill for their Whit service at St Peter's.
Yesterday, 145 years later, about a hundred pupils of Horbury Bridge Primary, aged between four and 11, re-enacted the march,
above, singing the hymn en route.
They then took part in a service at St Peter's with parents, church members and representatives from another local school, St Peter's.