RGS Guildford courtyard with students

Category: Student Reflections

Reflection: Mental Health

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…

Reflection: Respect

“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…

Reflection: Aspiration

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…

Reflection: Kindness

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…

Reflection: Organisation

Writing this on Sunday night, I found it ironic that I was reflecting on organisation today.  But here we are.  The most useful definition I found find online of Organisation…

Reflection: Imagination

As Albert Einstein once said, “Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.”  Imagination is often seen as a quality reserved for artists, musicians and…

Reflection: Diwali

When I was tasked with writing a speech on Diwali, I thought, as a Hindu, this would be a walk in the park. However, although I loosely knew the story…