Thought For The Day – Friday 13^th June 2025

The photograph above was taken on Monday of this week.

Thank you to students and staff for all their continued work this week, and indeed this coming weekend and next week, both here at T.B.S.H.S. and beyond.

Year 13 and Year 11 students sitting external and public examinations continue to show great enthusiasm and resilience very deep into this season.  Summer holidays will be the reward for such very hard work.  These inspirational students dig deep and keep going as they approach the finish line.

Year 12 students also have been showing great engagement with their internal examinations.

Year 10 students will be expressing their sincere gratitude for their work experience opportunities as they finish their placements today. 

Year 9 students are looking forward to their wonderful Guernsey cricket tour.

Year 7 students will be returning from brilliant “Bushcraft”.

Year 8 students have had a week of further “truly all-round education”.

But, as Mr. Reeve stated in Final Assembly last term, as we continue our journey, striving to be good citizens and people, at the School and beyond, we never forget those in need, locally, nationally and internationally.

The world is so very small.

And life is so very precious, unique, sacred and special.  

We appreciate, love, nurture and treasure life. 

Both people and the environment.

We hold people, and our environment, close.

Our very deepest thoughts and prayers are with those experiencing bereavement, conflict, illness, loss and trauma beyond words around the world.

We come together, showing care, compassion, connection, solidarity and support.

We look after others. 

We look after ourselves.

This week, we have been particularly very conscious of those suffering beyond words, and all caring and supporting.  in different and separate tragedies;  at a school in Graz, Austria;  in the flight from Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, in India, a region and country which has very close links to the United Kingdom, to London Gatwick;  in continued conflict, poverty and war.

A BBC news report from the Shree Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Hindu Temple in Harrow, London, yesterday evening talked of the Temple’s community, many of whom were directly affected by the air disaster, selflessly praying for all who suffer in the world generally. This community were also mindfully, and thoughtfully, thinking about, and reflecting upon, all globally.   This was the Temple’s message yesterday: