Students invited to celebrate with the Queen (From Surrey Comet)

Students invited to celebrate with the Queen

8:10am Saturday 4th February 2012 in Top stories By Nazia Dewji

Students will be in the presence of the Queen when they attend Westminster Abbey to help kick off her Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

ACS Cobham International School won tickets to the Commonwealth Day Observance event, which will also include the prime minister and numerous other VIPs.

The school was one of hundreds in the country chosen to take part after submitting entries for a Jubilee Time Capsule school competition.

The capsule is designed to be a digital collection of videos, photographs and writings on memorable days within the last 60 years and will be presented to the Queen later in the year.

To date, more than 23,000 entries have been submitted by the public from 41 different countries.

Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Danny Sriskandarajah, said: “We want this to be the best gift the Queen has ever received, a crowd-sourced people’s history of the last 60 years.”

More than 1,000 schoolchildren will be present at the Commonwealth Observance Day on Monday, March 12.

For more information and to submit an entry to the capsule visit www.jubileetimecapsule.org.