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Year 13 Leavers’ Book Quotes: How was it for you? ‘My time at Highcliffe was simply some of the best years of my life, and the thought of continuing without it makes me really, really sad.’ ‘Highcliffe Sixth Form has been amazing…the trips have made it a phenomenal experience. I would like to thank all the teachers for their support over the last two years.’ ‘Over these two years Highcliffe Sixth Form has given me everything I could have wanted from an educational establishment. I have travelled across continents to Chennai and Prague, I have experienced the world’s greatest universities, I have been challenged to my limit in lessons, debate club and meeting some of the best people in the world.’ ‘If Sixth Form has taught me anything, it has taught me that working hard has a pay-off.’ ‘I must say I have really enjoyed my time at Highcliffe Sixth Form, great bunch of people and the support given to me was really helpful.’ ‘My two years at Highcliffe Sixth Form have been intense, tiring and stressful. But would I do it again? In a flash! I learnt so much, outside the classroom as well as in. I’ve learnt just how difficult A-Levels are, but that they, like pretty much anything in life can be conquered with good friends beside you.’ ‘I’ve come to realize how lucky we are to be given opportunities like those Highcliffe offers and that you have to seize those opportunities with both hands before they pass you by.’ ‘I will always look back at my time here at Highcliffe and smile…’ ‘I am very grateful to Highcliffe for all the opportunities and experiences. I have made so many friends and will be sad to leave. However I look forward to the future and am confident in the knowledge that Highcliffe provided me with the best start I could have asked for.’ ‘Spending 2 years at Highcliffe Sixth Form is probably going to be ranked, in the coming years, as one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.’ ‘Although I have moaned a great deal over the last two years, I can safely say that I have really enjoyed my time in the Sixth Form.’ ‘I guess I have a lot to thank Highcliffe for. First for letting me come back to earn some more grades and giving me a year to work out what I really wanted to do in life. Secondly, and probably the most important is how Highcliffe has taught me who my real friends are and who I am. It has taken me 7 years to build up the confidence to step out on my own and I have all of my teachers and friends to thank for it.’ ‘The memories will remain with me forever and in my head I will always be Head Girl.’
… and what a time it was... It is always a bittersweet moment when the time comes for our young adults to pass on from Highcliffe to the next stage of their lives. We are filled with pride, tinged with a little bit of sadness as we realise, like you parents, that we have to know when to let go. Over the next 2 pages we give you the text of the speech made at the Year 13 Leavers’ Assembly by Sammy Joynson (Head Boy), illustrated with photographs from the event. So here we are. After 7 years for most of us, and 2 years for some of us, we stand today in the safety of Highcliffe School with life before us. It seems strange to think that after today, we will no longer be gently chatting in the study room about too much work and too little time, but instead, in the real world, talking about dauntingly real issues. Whether we like it or not, this appears to be a real moment of change in our lives. Almost seven years ago, when we were just children, Ms Potts stood at the front of our assembly, with the intoxicating smell of new purple jumpers filling our nostrils, telling us that our Highcliffe journey would be over before we know it. It seems, contrary to the opinion at the time, that she was completely correct. Those years have flurried away like petals drifting from the richest purple rose and today, it seems that the last one is floating to the floor. Those petals have included people, moments and relationships which have shaped our teenage years, even our lives. For example, we experienced the feeling of rebellion against authority on the notorious Snow Day in Year 7, the excitement of stepping from a plane onto foreign soil on school trips which have encompassed the globe – Japan, USA, India, Auschwitz, the list could go on - the sensation of success, real success, when we have received academic results, and, perhaps most importantly, the feeling of friendship, trust and even first love. We will always remember those timid introductions we gave on our first day to the people who we now describe as our best of friends, we will remember that time where you trusted a class mate with the biggest secret in the world, and of course, that time when you first kissed that girl which you will remember for the rest of your life. That is growing up, that will forever be growing up, and our adolescence will always be synonymous with that open book, spread across that simple river, mounted on that unforgettable purple background. Indeed, we have all grown up individually, but I believe that we have
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