From The Head - Friday 21st March 2025
Choices and change were the theme of this morning's beautiful Year 6 assembly and the children were fantastic in delivering a very poignant message.
We continually make choices throughout our lives, both consciously and subconsciously: small decisions such as what to have for dinner, along with pivotal, life changing ones regarding career and relationships.
Essentially, everyone has the power of choice which not only shapes our lives and experiences, but those of other people too. The good or bad choices we make can have a lasting impact on ourselves and those around us.
If you stop to think about it, this is quite the responsibility and a prompt that we need to make our choic-es cautiously and wisely as they can have wide-reaching effects, but having the ability to choose puts us in the driving seat of our lives and provides the opportunity to change and direct our lives.
Holocaust survivor and psychologist, Viktor Frankl, observed that, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstanc-es, to choose one's own way. Even when life deals us a horrible hand, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant."
This critical life lesson is a salient reminder that we have control of what we do and that even in the dark-est, most difficult periods of time, we can still choose how we view these situations and how we respond.
Ultimately, we can choose how we feel, how we react, how we make other people feel and the path we take; we have the ability to make both ourselves and others feel good or bad, and to be either positive or negative. This is the power and beauty of choice.
Well done and thank you, Year 6, for providing such a valuable opportunity for reflection.
Have a marvellous weekend.
Julia Langford
Headteacher