Thought For The Day – Friday 8th November 2024
The Visible and The Invisible
Thank you for all your wonderful contributions this week, especially on Sixth Form Open Evening.
Thank you to all who have submitted your (reclaiming the) narratives for Black History Month
We are all blessed to have these opportunities.
Opportunities at school.
Opportunities in life.
Opportunities for others.
Opportunities for ourselves.
For there are so many invisible schools, with invisible students, staff and parents, in invisible communities, who do not have, and have not had, the wonderful opportunities we enjoy.
Perhaps this was because some or all of their family died in conflict and were the victims of conflict.
And still.
We choose to wear a poppy to remember those people.
The invisible and the visible.
We choose to wear a poppy to remember those who survived.
Those people who live with mental and physical challenges and trauma.
We choose to wear a poppy to remember those who were, and are, upstanders for goodness, love and truth.
We choose to wear a poppy to remember the emergency services and all who professionally run towards danger to keep others safe.
We choose to wear a poppy to remember the victims of terrorism.
We choose to wear a poppy to remember equality, diversity, inclusion, peace and the environment.
The beautiful poppy grew on Flanders Fields in Belgium and in Northern France in and after the First World War.
Shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, Belgium, in the First World War, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, was very moved by the sight of these beautiful poppies. This profound experience led him to write the iconic poem “In Flanders Fields”. It would inspire The Poppy Appeal, first started 103 years ago.
Thank you very much for all your generosity, kindness and respect for The Poppy Appeal. Our four poppy tins are filling up thanks to you. It is the very least we can do. Thank you to the student leaders who are collecting and all who are contributing. We have a few metal pins left as well as poppy reflectors and paper poppies.
Sunday is Remembrance Sunday where there will be commemorative events in Bishop’s Stortford, around the U.K., across the world and at the Cenotaph War Memorial in London.
Thank you to all who are taking part, leading and supporting.
Monday is Armistice Day. On the 11th month, on the 11th day at the 11th hour, including at TBSHS:
“We Will Remember Them”.
We never forget.
Have a safe, restful, and reflective, Remembrance weekend.
