Thought For The Day – Monday 9th September 2024

One Note link: Thought For The Day

https://tbshs.org/thought-for-the-day/

“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.” (R.W. Emerson, anti-slavery campaigner and philosopher)

Today you, and we, make history at The Bishop’s Stortford High School.

Years 7, 12 and 13 leaders led the pioneering way on Friday.

We welcome all who have joined the school, including new staff.

But, in this unique and exciting experience and moment, we are all new today.

We will help one another, just as all the staff of TBSHS so brilliantly helped each other last week.

The journey to Beaumont Avenue has taken nearly two decades, involving commitment, aspiration, respect, integrity, community, resilience, equality, sustainability, hope and vision. It is a wonderful legacy which will endure and inspire for generations and seasons to come.

There are no words to describe all that Mr. Reeve, Mrs. Engel, the senior management team, TBSHS’ Chair of Governors Mr. Fordham, and all the Governors, have done over very many years. They have been wonderfully assisted by many in our school and local community, and beyond, including the caretaking and the technical teams and, of course, all who have individually and collectively built, constructed, crafted, designed and furnished this beautiful and brilliant facility, and who continue to take great pride in their work.

Our school motto is: “Respice, aspice, prospice”. This means: “Look to, and respect, the past, present, and future”.

Today, and always, it is appropriate to think of all who have come before us, in school and in our lives generally, on whose shoulders we stand, particularly those who inspire us from Heaven.  We continue their profound legacy of love.

At this time,  we remember Max Oliver, an outstanding and inspirational former student of TBSHS,  and a massively respected leader at Bishop’s Stortford Rugby Club, and beyond, who passed away last week. Max, Max’s family and Max’s friends are in our very deepest thoughts and prayers.

Values, and love, are eternal.

In this life, values and love are demonstrated in person, on-line, in our communities and in how we appreciate, remember, respect and think of other people and our environment.

In the coming days, and beyond, there will be a need for all of us to play our part and show leadership, responsibility, flexibility and understanding.  The best, and most appreciated and valued, gifts are those which actively require something significant of us, and a giving back to others.

Today, in: our uniform; meetings; assemblies; tours of the school; form periods; break and lunch; engagement, literacy and oracy in Period 4 and Period 5; in our journey to and from TBSHS; the school community will rise to the occasion, and humbly appreciate what has been given, looking after other people and ourselves, in true “Black and Gold Spirit”.

“Field of Dreams” – “If you build it,  they will come”:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=sS8xMrcYQ2WAZQ5l&v=jbmZ1Oz_nTg&feature=youtu.be