Thought For The Day –  Monday 16^th December 2024

Thank you to everyone, students, staff, parents and families, for their continued “Black and Gold Spirit” this term.

However good, or challenging, a game or match is, the sign of a great person, or a great team, is how they finish.  Do they play to the “final whistle”?   Do they shake hands with officials and  other players and staff ? Do they  show gratitude and respect to supporters ?  

Values are everything as we all strive to be good and better.

So, we finish this historic first term in our new well.

For how we finish is a precious opportunity to say thank you. 

An end is also a start for the next game, season and journey.

Good luck, and thank you, to Year 11s in their remaining mock examinations today and tomorrow.  A very important training block.   Thank you to the examinations team, invigilators, learning supporting assistants and subject staff.  Very best wishes to Year 13 preparing for their mock examinations after Christmas.   Summer results days will be here soon enough. Hard work now leads to happiness then.  Doing our best is all that matters.  As well as thinking of others.

Thank you to all the brilliant students who represented the “Black and Gold” as they raised money for those in need in our local community yesterday. Their communication, representation, service and spirit was outstanding.

The monies the school community raised for The Poppy Appeal total £713.16,  reported our local Royal British Legion on Friday.

Today sees the first of our Advent and Christmas services in Saint Michael’s Church.  This is an opportunity for inclusive, respectful and thoughtful  reflection at this very busy time of year.   Thank you to students leading in the services.  We engage and respect. Year 7 and Year 8, who must be in full school uniform,  should leave what they do not need for Monday evening in their locker.   If students can afford it,  and they wish, they are invited to make a small donation for the work of the church, a symbolic and practical heart of the local community.  Students should ensure they travel home respectfully, and safely, from the church and that they are warm on their walk to, and from, their service.

We humbly bring “Black and Gold Spirit” to the wider community once again.

In so doing, we learn from, and respect, the wider community.