As usual, this student is the chosen one to speak on behalf of his classmates at the 4 ESO graduation ceremony to be held at 1 pm on Thursday 21st June.
HAPPINESS and PRIDE
Welcome
parents, family, guests and teachers. Thank you for being here on this
important day.
Today is a day of happiness and
pride. First of all,
congratulations to all of you, classmates and friends, for being here today,
for having spent all these years studying, having lessons and working hard to
have a good future and improve your learning and your life.
I
came to this school in 2006 in the second year of kindergarten. On my first day,
that day when all of us were wearing our red sweatshirt, our blue trousers and
our checkered apron. Some of us were crying because we didn’t want to say bye
to our parents. And today, on our last day at this school, we will cry again because
we will not want to say bye to Labor School. That day, the kindergarten first
day, the day that no one remembers, is the day that has marked us. We didn't
even know it yet, but on that day our student career started at Labor School.
During
our first few years here, we learned the Little Einstein´s dance to make a
spaceship take off and not to talk when the teacher wasn't in the classroom and
a classmate used to write names on the board.
At
the end of kindergarten, we had the first graduation of our lives and we
started Primary Education, another day
of happiness and pride. Primary will be always the best time of a student
career. When you are in Primary you don´t have to study much, you don’t have
many problems or worries and your life is always fun. You draw a picture every
week explaining what you did on your weekend, you listen to the Christmas
Lottery live, you learn verb tables, multiplication tables, tables, tables and
more tables. We did mathematical competitions during the lessons, we did the 'Baker
Game' in PE, we took part in an amazing athletics competition with other
schools (where we won just one trophy, but it doesn´t matter). There, we also
learned the importance of sharing thanks to María Aguiño's and Ana Collazo's
"700 kilos Goal". Primary ended with the goodbye to some classmates
and the arrival of others. But we stayed together in the same classes and in
the same groups.
But
you continue growing up and you move on to Secondary Education. You are now in
the last part of your time at school, you will have now 8 different teachers
and you will have to start working harder than before. You have been seeing
those people, who seemed very serious and some a little unfriendly, for years
during the breaks, and now they are your teachers. Now you take lessons in the
older students' building, that white and green building.
The
first day of Secondary comes. This day is your first time entering the
Secondary building with the other Secondary students and you find yourself
waiting to go upstairs in this crowded hall and surrounded by people as tall as
a tower. In our first few years here we started with the Galician definition
pages, with the DIN A5, with Candido's scary tests written in black ink on his graph
paper. We took up French, a strange language, Word, Qkad, and Sketchup exams, Cooper tests, irregular
verbs tests and all the presentations in public. Here we had the flute tests
that shook our pulse. And we started the Olympic teams.
During
all these years, there have been times of distress; there were happy moments
too and goals achieved in group. A group that wouldn't exist without you,
teachers and parents. Thank you, teachers for putting up with our foolishness,
for being so patient with us and for being more than teachers, friends and
parents.
And
parents, what can I say? We owe you a lot: all your support and unconditional
effort every time you had to explain something to us over and over again, or
help us organize our study time, or if you had to pay for coaching lessons or revise
lessons with us. You have to know it was worth it.
This
school has made a family from us, a big and strong family, both students and
teachers. This family is now 13 years old; even if someone has joined in later,
the link is very tight too.
Today,
a day of happiness and pride, is the
day when this period ends and the future starts, when our time at Labor School
ends and a new period called high school
starts.
Everything
in life comes to an end and this speech too. And now we will make promises
like… nothing is going to change, we will meet every month and we will chat
most days. But life moves on and we have to move on too. This is not just an
ending: this is a new beginning too. I hope you all have all the best of luck
in the future. Not being together does not mean forgetting what we have lived
and shared.
And
there is one thing that we can promise. That when we walk past one of us down
the street, we will think that this person was with us at Labor School and we
will remember all the important and happy moments that we enjoyed with them in
the past.
Today is a day of happiness and
pride... Enjoy it! Thank you
everybody and congratulations and all the best, my friends!
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