The joy from more than 330 students going to the Great Yorkshire Show was carried into this week with many stories of fun times being shared on Monday. Whilst we were all looking forward to Sports Day on Tuesday, the weather dictated that Wednesday was the day for our inclusive sporting extravaganza. We’ve had field events taking place across the last couple of weeks and during the morning session. Then the whole school congregated on the field on Wednesday afternoon for the track events. Along with some serious sport, with many records being broken, there was also some serious supporting, resulting in a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. Reflected throughout were our newly defined school values; ambitious, respectful and resilient. Patience was then required as students had to wait for the whole school assembly for winners to be announced.
Earlier in the day, some of our Year 9 students showed some great initiative by having a bake sale to raise money for some new netball bibs. Well done to Maddie, Georgina, Millie and Bella for raising £39.10 – a great effort.
We’ve been part of Operation Traffic this week as part of the Harrogate Outer Neighbourhood Policing team initiative to have a week of action focusing on safety around schools and, in particular, parking awareness and speed. As you can see our Year 8 students were keen to get involved and delivered some powerful messages to drivers.
I’ve taken the opportunity in assemblies this week to celebrate with students their achievements across this academic year whilst also introducing our tools, which alongside the phases of learning, will enable us to continue to drive upwards standards of behaviour and learning. These are our core values; ambitious, respectful and resilient and also the characteristics which make an excellent BHS student. We’ll be talking about these more in the Autumn Term. Assemblies were also an important way for me gain feedback on the changes to our mobile phone policy with the vast majority of students agreeing that the ‘Never used, seen or heard’ is the best approach.
And so, to mark the end of what has been an excellent year for Boroughbridge High School, we all made our way to the Sports Hall this morning for our whole school celebration assembly. A photo power point of more than 100 images captured our year followed by the photos of impressive Sports Day performances. There was much applause to recognise achievements. Subject awards were next with students being given certificates to acknowledge their excellent work and high standards achieved. Sporting awards followed and then came the moment that we’d all been waiting for – the reveal of the Sports Day winners. And here they are; 8CL, 9AC, 10SF and 11SW. It was a great celebration of all that we value in our school community.
With the Summer break now upon us, on behalf of the staff team, I would like to thank you for your ongoing support and wish you and your family a great Summer break. Students return to school on Tuesday 3rd September.