Thought For The Day – Wednesday 21^st May 2025

Examinations continue for Year 7, Year 11 and Year 13.

Thank you to the wonderful Mrs. Chan, and all the great team of invigilators, for all the meticulous  organization and supervision of these important positive opportunities.   

Thank you to all staff, with particular gratitude to the Learning Support Department, for their diligent and devoted preparation and encouragement.

Dig deep. Keep going. Run through, and beyond,  the tape.  Leave it all out there. No regrets in the Summer holidays. Fully respect the examinations and follow vital procedures. 

Remember, and action, the professional advice, experience and wisdom, of staff and “the game plan”.  

Always represent your values.  In examinations. In life.

On the evening after the final day of T.B.S.H.S. , in the Summer of 2024, Mrs. McCoig and Mrs. Stacey cleaned the school, as they always do, with great attention to detail.  Why did they do this?  There was literally no more school, or lessons,  no more Inset Days,  there again.  Why care?  Professional pride in doing a job well. That is what they said.  That is what they did.  And those standards continue at Beaumont Avenue every weekday evening.

We leave things better than we found them.

We are nearly at half-term. This is effectively half-time for the 2025 edition of external and public examinations.  There are no examinations in half-term.

Whilst support is always essential, and we walk the journey of life together, we must run our (best) individual race.  Everyone is different and unique.  Everyone has their experience, their story and their gifts. 

For sure, the whole season(s) defines outcomes.  What happens at the start of the autumn and in the middle of winter totally matters. But so, so much can be done on the final lap, in the home straight and in the final days, hours, minutes and seconds.  It will probably come down to the odd mark or two. 

Fine margins.   The gold medal in the Final of the Men’s 100 Metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics, pictured above,  was decided by 0.005 seconds.

Calmness, character and composure is needed in these key moments. Sometimes, we have to spot a pass no one else can see.

Those final checks and additions, before and in the examination,  so often make the critical difference. 

As does positively responding to challenges and setbacks.

Play, play, play.

Ultimately, being a good person, holistically looking after others and ourselves,  and doing, and giving, our very, very best is all that matters.