Thought For The Day – Thursday 18th September 2025
Represent
Happy Prospective Parents’ Evening! Happy Open Evening!
Tonight is another great opportunity to showcase “The Black and Gold Spirit” and represent.
At the very heart of this evening is something at the heart of every day: outstanding student engagement, leadership and participation; supported by outstanding staff care, expertise and passion.
There will be the “Black and Gold” buzz this evening, as every dimension of T.B.S.H.S. plays its, and their, part.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Coach-led.
Player-driven.
Family-supported.
This is our second Prospective Parents’ Evening, or Open Evening, at our new location.
Be smart. Be punctual. Show up. Be positive. Have the right mindset.
Tell your story.
Tell our story.
Communicate the School’s “past, present and future” values of commitment, aspiration, respect, integrity and community, alongside equality, resilience, and responsibility.
These values are actions. They are lived. They influence all behaviour and conduct.
We greatly respect, and appreciate, all schools. We are global citizens.
But we proudly, but humbly, share all The Bishop’s Stortford High School does inside, and outside, the classroom.
Listen to the stories of others.
Be interested in, respectful of and welcoming to our and your guests, asking their names and finding out their school and their interests.
They are the next generation.
They are our future.
Remember what it was like when you were they. Empathy.
Remember your roots.
And thank you to Primary Schools. They really do set the foundations. We stand on the shoulders of those giants.
And carers, families, guardians, parents and the extended family even more so.
At the close of evening, make your way safely home, having registered, just as you did at the start of the evening.
School today will finish after form registration, which follows Period 4.
Please ensure you leave nothing on top of lockers today. Close all locker doors. Take responsibility for your domain.
Please help the cleaners, as always, by leaving every area of T.B.S.H.S. clean and tidy.
Be respectful, and safe, on your way home.
And, if you are not involved tonight, use the time today, and on Inset Day, to do the work you need to do for the School, and think about what you will do to make us better. Everyone matters. It takes all.
We are pumped and ready to go to play our part this evening.
Thank you to Mr. Reeve and Miss. Butler for their brilliant leadership and organisation, as ever, of this evening, and thank you to all staff and students greatly supporting and making a positive difference.
Time to shine.
Time to represent.
