At St Martha’s Senior School, they were extremely privileged to have received an outstanding speech during assembly in the early morning where gloomy faces are on a high. Since being an Olympic Winner to training for eight years and never quitting when the times got coarse, GB Athlete Jeanette never let anything stop her from going for what she loved. The influential idiom of such a talented woman for certain lifted up the temperaments of the St Martha’s girls. Our ideas of success seem to be so self-explanatory yet why does the lexis “success” never get used for so many of us today? “Our support is all around us. Your teachers, your parents, your friends. Whether it is too much homework or something you want to achieve, they will still always be here” is one of the inspiring lexis’ that came out of the talented runner.

In today’s society, woman are constantly oppressed to being sub-standard in comparison to men; but Jeanette did not let that stop her chasing her dreams of making it big. Stopping is only going to make you regret it in the long-run. Auspiciously, the GCSE PE students had the extreme privilege of being able to spend the whole day with her – and don’t forget her words of astuteness. Coming from a background where education came first with high expectations regarding a career and graduating with a degree, her mother supported her to achieve her talents in sport. In today’s society, making it big is perceived as a miraculous achievement where only the lucky or extremely talented are able to receive this. “Why?” is the only question that runs through the mind of the curious. All of us obtain the exact same potential if our minds are put to it minus the doubt at the back of our minds that we just aren’t good enough. Celebrities and motivational speakers are booming with attempting to indoctrinate our word with the realisation that anything is possible; this is what life should be about.