Category: Student Reflections

Sportsmanship can be interpreted in many ways, but for me, it’s what transforms a simple game into something truly meaningful.  It’s not just about winning or losing—it’s about respect, fairness,…

What do the following places and organisations have in common?  Sports clubs, hospitals, schools, places of worship, museums, historic houses, parks, care homes, theatres, emergency services, libraries, pet rescue centres? The answer is,…

Your life is made up of teams but you may not know it.  The first team in life is your family: the ones that look after you and keep you…

The British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua is one of the best examples of success as a result of participation.  After a troubled childhood, he decided to take up boxing at…

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.  Always.  All the time.  That story makes you what you are.  We build ourselves out of that story”….

While travelling to Pretoria for work in June 1893, Mahatma Gandhi was forcibly ejected from a first-class compartment of a train, despite having a ticket for his seat.  This moment…

The theme for this assembly is courage which is especially topical considering that Saturday 27 January was Holocaust Memorial Day. Holocaust remembrance is a topic which is very important to…

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison.  These are the four men who make up what is arguably the greatest band of all time, The Beatles.  But behind our…

One of our School Values is courage, but what is courage?  Courage is defined as the ability to do something that frightens one or as bravery but I believe courage…