Pablo Picasso once said something along the lines that the best ideas are stolen and so shamelessly exploiting that idea I am going to magpie the thread of Mr Lamb’s excellent series of assemblies last week.

The key message he delivered was that reward in life does not always come from the destination but very often from the journey in getting there. There is an important message here and one which I think we need to encourage young people to consider.

I am not going to steal Mr Lamb’s thunder by citing all of the examples he provided but they were relevant and thought-provoking. However, one particularly stuck with me.

You may or may not know that a try in rugby is called a try because it provided the team with the opportunity to “try” for a kick at the posts – a conversion. In the very early days of the sport the try was not worth any points at all, it was then worth a point when a conversion was worth two points and it was not until the very end of the nineteenth century that a try started to be worthy of more points than a conversion as the modern game was formed.

To score a try requires skill and speed, power and precision; it’s about working as a team, lots of collective effort and is celebrated together. Conversions are similarly celebrated but are about an individual getting his or her kick right and being cool under pressure. Both are wonderful parts of the game of rugby but it is the try – the journey – which thrills us as we play or watch the game and which we celebrate in particular. The destination is important but it is the journey which we remember.