Thought For The Day – Thursday 16^th April 2026

Involving the three Interact charity clubs of Bishop’s Stortford, at The Hertfordshire and Essex High School, Hockerill Anglo-European College, and The Bishop’s Stortford High School, “Showcase” takes place tonight in the School Hall at 7 p.m..

Please come along for an enjoyable, holistic, and wholesome evening and to raise money for charity and for those in need. There will be tickets available on the evening.

Show up. Show out.  Showcase.

Thank you to all students involved from T.B.S.H.S. for their leadership of “Showcase” this year.  We are very grateful.

Thank you to our two wonderful Interact partner schools for their outstanding leadership also. It is brilliant and inspiring to work with, and learn from, other schools.

Interact celebrates its 35^th anniversary at T.B.S.H.S. in 2026 and has also been long-established by Bishop’s Stortford Rotary Club at our two partner schools.

We are one community, one nation, and one globe and world.

The motto of Rotary is: “Service Above Self”.

One charity we will be raising money for is Bishop’s Stortford Rotary Club, particularly their unique Christmas collections project for those in need each Christmas.

We will also be raising money for the “Marie Curie” charity.  This important charity provides care, nursing, and support, for people, who have terminal illnesses, particularly cancer, and their families.

For someone to know, and to be informed by medical professionals, that they are coming to end of their life, that their health will not get better, and therefore are, by definition,  very unwell anyway, is challenging beyond words. Challenging beyond words mentally and physically. It is also very challenging for their families and friends.

This happens to people of all ages.

Caring for those suffering and those coming to the end of their life, treasuring each person, providing palliative care, and showing care, compassion, empathy, hope and love, is very, very important.

The Marie Curie charity was named in honour of Marie Curie, the chemist and physicist, who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her pioneering research in, and on, radioactivity, and The Marie Curie Hospital in London, which treated cancer patients using techniques developed by Marie Curie.

The photographs above were taken by Fin Macfie and Oliver Berry as we finished the technical rehearsal with our partner schools last evening.

The Interact student leadership team of Fin Macfie, Joshua Tingley, Isaac Jones, and Oliver Berry found the image very symbolic of Showcase, Interact, and the care, hope and love everyone needs.