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MESSAGE TO THE

CLASS OF 2019

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students to try hard and go beyond their PDNH LW TXLFN /LNH P\ OLIH
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become a better person, I commend you. You have RI RXU OLYHV ZH ÀQG RXUVHOYHV WU\LQJ WR UHPHPEHU
done a great job! Your effort and labour will be the WKH JRRG WLPHV DQG WU\LQJ WR IRUJHW WKH EDG WLPHV
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As students entering the exam season, you stand
today on the precipice of the future. It's not a
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today. You began high school as children, but ZRUU\ VR PXFK EHFDXVH LQ WKH HQG QRQH RI XV KDYH
soon you're leaving as adults. You've completed YHU\ ORQJ RQ WKLV HDUWK OLIH LV ÁHHWLQJ $QG LI \RX UH
an education that will serve as the platform you HYHU GLVWUHVVHG FDVW \RXU H\HV WR WKH VXPPHU VN\
will use to launch yourselves into your futures. ZKHQ WKH VWDUV DUH VWUXQJ DFURVV WKH YHOYHW\ QLJKW
Some of you will go on to university, others will go DQG ZKHQ D VKRRWLQJ VWDU VWUHDNV WKURXJK WKH
straight into the workforce, but each of you will EODFNQHVV WXUQLQJ QLJKW LQWR GD\ PDNH D ZLVK DQG
travel your own path. No matter where you go or think of me.
what you do, there are challenges ahead of you.
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challenges straight on with your head held high KWWSV ZZZ \RXWXEH FRP ZDWFK"Y ,3;Z6 M 7 (
and your heart wide open.
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It's not enough to simply try to get by in life. That HEADMASTER AT ST PETER’S COLLEGE
doesn't move the world forward. You must try to excel
in everything you do; strive for excellence in every
task, large or small. Although it may not be easy to
see, every accomplishment you achieve is added
to the world's accomplishments. Your individual
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you succeed, you lighten the burden on your fellow
man. When you succeed, you are in a position to give
rather than take. Imagine if every individual lived up
to his or her own potential. Think about how amazing
that would be, and how much better off the world
would be.

My challenge to each of you, is to do all that you can
do to reach your full potential. If each of the Matric
students in the Class of 2019 is able to do that, just
imagine the effect that would have. The future is truly
in your hands, so make the most of it.
In the movie “Jack”, Robin Williams plays the role
of Jack Powell, a boy who ages four times faster
than normal as a result of Werner Syndrome,
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a form of progeria. He delivers the valedictory
speech, in which he reminds his classmates that
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life is sh Whatever you do,
life is short, and urges them to “Make Your Life
Spectacular”.
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make it count
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