Graduation 2022

Back on campus, finally!

The class of 2022 swayed together as they sang the above lines. It was one of their last experiences as students at Woodstock. A class that lost most of its time together to Covid chanted a plea to repeat high school all over to make up for lost experiences and lost time with one another.

Graduation was a bittersweet ending to this chapter of their lives, each one proud of the other for all their accomplishments that almost felt incomplete in a sense, as was emphasized by Aman Singh in his valedictory speech.

Dr Cook commenced the ceremony by acknowledging long standing staff members whose connections with our students made the learning dynamic at Woodstock so powerful. He declared this event a transitioning step and commended the class on persevering through tenuous times. He expressed confidence in the class’s capability to face the next phase of their lives and their ability to be visionary while doing so.

This was followed by a musical performance by Mr. Aloke Maiti on the tabla and Aman Singh on the sitar. An impressive performance indeed, that had audience members on their feet.

Aman Singh’s valedictory speech followed. He delved into farewells that had come too soon for Arcadius. When the pandemic hit, as a new student anticipating his arrival in the welcoming hills he was met instead with a computer screen. Pixels couldn’t make up for the real thing. Like many other Woodstock arrivers in the eleventh grade, he spent only four months out of his two years on campus. He believed Arcadius deserved to be wrapped up in this cocoon for a little while longer.

Aman thanked everyone who supported the graduating class in their endeavors as well as the people who truly helped transform Woodstock into a real home. He concluded that what makes the Woodstock experience special is the people. Those relationships are born here but only strengthen when they leave. He described the class as an unbreakable community of 80 people who accomplished the impossible.

2022 Valedictorian

Aman Singh is an outstanding student who entered Woodstock with a record of being a school topper in Grade 10. In Woodstock he was an astute learner, sustaining his enthusiasm and love of learning and acing the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme by excelling in all six subjects with a total grade point of 42 out of 42 in the Mock Examination and 43 out of 45 in the Final IBDP Examination.

He has a multifaceted personality with varied interests in song writing, singing, film making – a creative genius in his own right. He is the personification of the learner profile trait: balanced intellectually, physically, and emotionally who believes in achieving well-being for himself and his peers.