St Ursula girls say Goodbye



Graduate Chelsi Barrow accepting her Scroll

 

 

Featured speaker Cherise Renwick

The Ideal St Ursula girl “…wasn’t the student that got the highest grades [but] it was the all rounded student that tired the hardest,” as former student Cherise Renwick described while she addressed the 2015 graduates of the Ursuline convent school Last Saturday, evening.

Renwick acknowledged that technology has huge impact on the current generation “Your generation has it easier and harder, “she said.

Recalling the days when she had to solely rely on library books like encyclopedia’s and hand write each project.

While acknowledging that “Now we have Google, you click it and there’s a wealth of information,” Which she describes as “an information overload most times.”

She advised graduates not to take the information at face value, but rather go deeper “you have to figure out what’s right [and] wrong, put it together get the relevance.”

She acknowledged that struggles will always surface in life, “We will always lose balance, we are all imperfect,” Renwick stressed “You are not meant to be perfect but you are meant to strive for it.

Head girl Artie samdass, delivered the valedictorian speech while sharing a valuable life lesson which taught her not to be shackled by her emotions. “Sometimes in life we let our emotions consume all that we are,” she said. Which as a result, “…Can take us into a place of darkness,” she revealed.

Samdass urged fellow graduates that their emotions, pain and failures are all temporary, “It may last few days, weeks or even months but it will subside, she reassured.

“ [Choosing] to quit brings along your greatest defeat and permanent regrets,” she advised. “T he temptation to quit will always be the greatest before you succeed,” Added Samdass.

“Girls, I want you to make wise choices because your choices make you,” she told them.

The graduates participated in a short candle light ceremony, where they lit each other candles and placed them in the shape of a heart.

 

 





Deputy Tamara Dickson collecting her scroll.



Abigail Greaves Played a Spanish song on her violin.