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A student perspective Head Prefect Maddy Gault and Deputy Head Prefect Francesca Masfen reflect on the first six months of their senior year.
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t’s fair to say that this year has not exactly gone as planned. Our graduation year was turned upside down by the implications of COVID-19. Reflecting on the first six months of 2020, we have been challenged in ways we never thought possible...which will actually help us as we venture into the big wide world next year. It is inevitable that when you are about to experience something you’ve looked forward to for so long (for Year 13s, our senior year) you always visualise
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it in your head and put expectations on yourself, but in reality, you can’t control what happens. That is all part of being the leaders of our School – adapting to what is presented to us. Of course, there have been aspects that felt like a let-down; we’ve missed lots of the time we could have had together as a cohort, time we won’t ever get back. But now more than ever we need to adopt the mentality of: “Class of 2020, let’s make the most of it”. In lots of
things in life, if something doesn’t go the way you hoped, you can’t just stop and give up. You fight back and treasure what you have. In some ways, restoring that senior year motivation was a bit hard, but really, we couldn’t have asked for a better group of girls. During the lockdown, we wanted to keep the Dio community alive, as well as continuing to demonstrate our theme for 2020: Nga-kau nui, meaning ‘big-hearted’. We thought that in order
