Thought For The Day – Thursday 12^th June 2025

Pride In You And Us

Thanks to Mrs. Jonas, we have guests in school today, presenting to Year 8 students about careers. Please be respectful. Hold doors open. Allow others to go first. As we (should) do normally. Be proud of your school. Be proud of yourself.

Opening doors and respecting others, putting them first, showing pride, is a broader theme of this month. For June is Pride Month. Pride Month celebrates the LGBTQ+ community.

Pride Month encourages people to be proud of who they are.

Pride Month is a colourful, and joyful, display of kindness, love, unity, and resilience, promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity, celebrating the diversity of sexual and gender identities and orientations.

Pride Month remembers the continuing journey to equality: past; present; future.

All negative prejudice and negative discrimination in person and on-line is wrong.

We put ourselves in the shoes of others, with empathy, treating others as we wish to be treated.

There are no double standards. There is one a single standard. And that standard is respect.

“The Black and Gold Spirit” is a multi-coloured spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion.

We should all be proud of who we are, and encourage others to be proud of who they are too.

What we wish for ourselves, we wish for others. Not looking after others is, ultimately, not looking after ourselves.

Thank you to Mrs. Miles for her wonderful and inspirational leadership of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at T.B.S.H.S. Everyone is enhanced and enlightened by this.

Thanks, once again, to Mrs. Mac. For her brilliant, caring and creative work, there is a fantastic Pride display in the School Library with a prize for the student who has read, and reviewed, the most books from this section. An outstanding idea which shows values…in valuing.

In the journey to be a better person, and to look after health and wellbeing, appropriate and thoughtful reading, and reflection, is absolutely essential.

Pictured above, with our truly inclusive “Equality Values”, are two visitors to T.B.S.H.S. in the last two academic years. First, Peter Tatchell, a co-organiser of the first U.K. “Pride” in 1972. Second, Clare Balding O.B.E., broadcaster and writer.