Thought For The Day –  Monday 28^th April 2025

External examinations commenced last week with Art.  They continue with Languages this week.

Thank you to the Examinations Team at T.B.S.H.S., including all invigilators.

We wish students well as they prepare for, and healthily pace themselves through, these, and other, external examinations this summer. 

Outside the examination room the foundation is:  Focused, but relaxed and calm, time management; resilience; effective and active revision; hard work;  good sleep, health, diet and rest.

Inside the examination room:  Believe in yourself; answer the questions set;  remember all learnt and practiced;  use all available time;  showcase and evidence knowledge, understanding and evaluation to the examiners; check and proofread; stay calm; and, most vitally, observe and respect the examination rules at all times.

Summer holidays, and beyond, are the reward.  

Even more so is the feeling of doing our very best, doing all we can, when we can, how we can.

Year 10 examinations also take place this week and early next week.  These are also very important.  The above equally applies to Year 10, as it does to all examinations in all year groups.  

Thank you to all staff and, of course and always, carers and parents for all they do to prepare, and nurture,  the players and the team. 

A holistic approach always.

Giving our best, looking after others, and ourselves, being respectful and kind, is ultimately what matters.

“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace”, said Pope Francis.

Globally, the Funeral of Pope Francis, on Saturday.  was an historic moment that bought world leaders and people from all homes and no homes together.  This was so very appropriate for Pope Francis, who encouraged building bridges, not walls, serving not being served, following the example of Jesus Christ.  Furthermore, a simple wooden coffin, as low to the ground as possible, not raised, and a simple tomb, was such an apposite, apt and deeply symbolic focus for, and of,  the humble and merciful “Pope of The People”, “Pope of Peace” and “Pope of, and from,  The Periphery”.

The centre picture on the top row above is from Pope Francis’ home city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.