Due to the demands on time and the large number of activities and calls upon my mental concentration, I have badly overlooked reporting on the achievements of EQ.
The wonderful daughter had her prize giving last week. It is nearly the end of the school year. As it is NCEA exams time of year( for that read GCSE), she has officially finished school already, bar the exams, and so the end of year event was relatively early, and on Monday evening.
It was an interesting event, as much as these things can be, as the serious prizes-Dux, and others, were presented to the final year. We started off the evening as before with the national anthem and finished with a hymn sang in Latin. Does your school not do the same?
An invited speaker was a successful ex-pupil who spoke about trying to achieve goals in life- and her thoughts were as relevant to the adults in the audience as for the pupils. In contrast, the speech from the soon to be previous head girl was too long, too corporate, and very “jolly hockey sticks”.
Anyway, EQ made her parents proud again with being awarded the prizes for German and Religious Studies.
Now on with the revision and the search for excellence!
