Category: Student Reflections

Competition is an integral part of life.  In the natural world, plants and animals compete for resources, and it is competition which gives a lion its strength and a gazelle…

The theme for this week is teamwork: something we rely on so often but frequently fail to recognise and appreciate.  It’s important that we reflect on team work and really…

“Do or do not.  There is no try.”  A quote from Yoda, a character in the 1980’s Star Wars film, Empire Strikes Back.  Where Yoda shows great wisdom to teach Luke…

Volunteering is a word whose meaning is well understood by modern-day culture; however, I believe that the attitude with which it is expected to be done is far less grounded….

I’m sorry to start on a low, but let me begin with some statistics that I found while researching Mental Health Awareness Week.  Every year, 1 in 4 people suffer from a…

When considering our aspirations and goals, we often have specific individuals who have already achieved what we aspire to at the forefront of our minds, and often those considered by…

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be” is a quotation from Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina and remains central to my understanding of the concept…

At the most basic level, aspiration can be summarised as the desire to achieve a goal; however, to me, it is a far more complex idea.  Aspiration to me represents…

At its most basic level, kindness is making a sacrifice to make someone else’s life better.  The sacrifice may be as small as giving away your last cookie or as…