Reflection: Teamwork
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…
Category: Student Reflections
Student Reflection: Participation
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…
Reflection: Exploration
“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”….
Reflection: Courage
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…
Reflection: Courage
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…
Reflection: Collaboration
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…
Reflection: Courage
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…
Reflection: Courage – Leadership
Nelson Mandela once said, “Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it is the triumph over it.” Courage is the force that propels humanity forward in the face of uncertainty and…
Reflection: Empathy
When trying to define the word empathy, people tend to use the phrase “put yourself in someone else’s shoes.” However, I think that this phrase doesn’t fully capture the essence…
Reflection: Mutual Respect
Mutual respect is more than just politeness; it’s the recognition that every person deserves to be treated with dignity, regardless of their background, culture, or beliefs. It’s about seeing the…