Inspiring Our Year 10 Students!

Pastoral Manager Miss Kent led a very inspiring assembly for our Year 10 cohort – all of them poised to start their most important year in school to date this coming September.

Under the theme of Growth she focussed on how Bukayo Saka moved on from his devastating ‘penalty kick moment’ at the age of 19 in the Euro 2020 final against Italy. She encouraged all the students to put themselves in his shoes and reminded them of the incredibly hurtful and nasty racist abuse he received online, but also how he had the determination and growth mindset to keep going and not quit.

As she stated in the assembly, Miss Kent told the students that “He did not let one moment define him.”

She asked the students in her year group to apply this same mindset to their ‘penalty kick moments’ and, as we finish Year 10 (with only 20 school days to go) to really think about ending well with their Year 10 PPEs and to make the ‘growth mindset’ changes that need to be made.

The inspiring assembly finished with a video of the moments in their lives at Bushey Meads from their start in Year 7. It was a poignant reminder of how far they have already come, how much they have grown already and how much further they can grow in the future.

I would like to thank Miss Kent for her hard work and dedication to the students in Year 10 and for being such an inspirational Pastoral Leader in the school.