Thought For The Day – Tuesday 5th May 2026
Never Give Up
We hope you had a very good bank holiday weekend.
Well done to Year 10 students for the determination, preparation, and resilience they demonstrated in their examinations last week. These examinations continue at the start of this week.
The external examinations for Year 11 and Year 13 students have commenced.
In all these endeavours, students should, healthily and safely, keep going.
Students will need to pace themselves through this series of examinations.
Keep believing. Students will be closer than they think.
Examiners are looking to give positive credit, if positive evidence is provided.
Students should show all they know and answer the question.
Questions in the examination room will, by definition, be challenging and need thought and working out.
Whilst those, sometimes last minute, checks in the examination, including proofreading, adding those extra points, before time elapses and the paper is submitted, make all the difference in marks, grades, and levels. It is only ever too late for that paper once the paper is handed in.
As students give their best, looking after others and themselves, which is all that ultimately matters, students have, and are, all they need.
Every student, every person, is on their own identity and journey.
Every individual has their own challenges and gifts, their own unique and sacred story.
These identities, journeys, and stories which are collectively cherished, empowered, encouraged, loved, nurtured, shared, and supported.
Together.
In all the above, we keep a wider life perspective.
Thank you very much to parents, families, and staff for their wonderful support.
“What motivated me was the desire to keep fighting”…“This is what great champions do – endure one more ball”: Rafa Nadal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bRQvnlIYQM
The clip below is the passionate “B.B.C. Radio York” commentary of the equalising goal, in added time, by York City in their final regular season match away at Rochdale. York City required at least a draw to achieve promotion to League 2. Rochdale, who needed a win to achieve promotion, had taken the lead in added time just a few minutes before. A response was required. Both teams achieved over one hundred points in their outstanding seasons: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/ce8j7kngw3go
