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A Chapter Closes 

Sixth Form

20 May 2022

With internal examinations in full flow school has been especially quiet this week, made all the more noticeable now that Year 13 are on study leave, having departed in a flurry of noise, energy and emotion. 

The girls should be immensely proud of themselves - how they have risen to the many challenges over the past two years, how they have picked themselves up in the face of adversity and how they have grown into being true role models for our younger pupils to look up and aspire to - and we wish them the best of luck in their examinations ahead. 

As one chapter closes and another begins Head Girl Fareedat, as eloquent as ever, shares her thoughts.

"My last week at school rather reminded me of my first. Busy, emotion filled and clinging to new made friends. But this time, instead of being sad that I was venturing to the big school and leaving home, the sadness stemmed from the realisation that EHS is home. Being here for 14 years I have seen EHS change and grow with its students. I have seen new faces, but old ones too, that have always stayed a part of the EHS community.
 
"It warms me that students at school looked up to me as Head Girl and I hope that I have shown you all that it is okay to make mistakes and not be absolutely perfect, but to embrace your imperfections and strive to be better.

"Whilst my final week at school was an end of an era it is also the beginning of a new chapter; one filled with curiosity and adventure. To all my fellow leavers I would like to leave you with a few lines from the 'Comfort Book' by Matt Haig: “You don’t need to know the future to be hopeful. You just need to embrace the concept of possibility. To accept the unknowability of the future is key and that there are versions of that future which are brighter than the present. The future is open.”

"Our time at EHS is far from over and we have left with an enriched sense of learning and discovery about ourselves - something which will continue in our futures. We are now stood in a stream of possibility where anything can happen."

 

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