Thought For The Day – Friday 22nd November 2024
Warm In Our Hearts
Pictured above: TBSHS aims for the moon, and beyond. Pictured on Monday morning earlier this week.
Well done to Year 12 students on the start they have made to their sixth form. It was a great pleasure to welcome Year 12 students, and their families, last evening for the first ever academic consultation evening at Beaumont Avenue. Thank you to all the staff for their time, passion and expertise.
Thank you to all Year 12 students for choosing to continue their education at the school. We very much appreciate your fine leadership and participation.
A great sixth form is absolutely essential to TBSHS. And we have a great sixth form.
That being said, for all of us, “The Black and Gold Spirit” is a verb. It is about what we do in the present moment, mindful of the past and thoughtful of the future. It is about what we all do today and every day. Life is a constant work in, and of. progress, for nothing, and no one, is perfect. The journey is the challenge and the opportunity for good.
Well done to the Year 10 rugby team, and their coaching staff and the Physical Education department, for an outstanding performance yesterday in their national competition. Absolutely brilliant and inspirational. Momentum is building. On to the next. Trust your process.
Well done to all who represent the school, themselves and their families, in everything.
In the U.K., it has been a very cold week, as we enter the magic and mystery of winter. We think about all who have been anxious, concerned and disrupted, and have had to show resilience, this week owing to the cold weather. We particularly think about the elderly and infirmed, and hope they are safe. We deeply reflect on those who are homeless, especially at this time.
It is warm in our hearts.
Listening to the cricket commentary from Australia on the BBC website this morning, it is summer on the other side of our world. The diversity of our planet. Which we cherish and look after.
On this day in history, on 22nd November 1963, President John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America, was killed. Just a year and a month earlier, President Kennedy, and his brother, had shown great leadership in a time of crisis: https://youtu.be/DBN2_UIcMBc?si=1B_I_ZfVkh9N8YCS (“13 Days” trailer, a clip we regularly share).
Thanks to the “J.F.K. Library”, these were the last words of a speech scheduled for the evening of that date, which President Kennedy never got the opportunity to deliver:
“For this is a time for courage and a time for challenge. Neither conformity nor complacency will do. Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a party is not to our party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all people. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom. So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our nation’s future is at stake. Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause–united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future–and determined that this land we love shall lead all people into new frontiers of peace and abundance.”
