St Cuthbert’s College 2012 Scholars’ Assembly

I was honoured to speak at St Cuthbert’s College 2012 Scholars’ Assembly earlier this week. Check out my speech below. Kia Ora. Thank you, Principal Reid, for this opportunity. Thank you also, for allowing Estie & Anais from years 1 and 3 to come along to see what the big girls get up to, and to give them something to aim for! It is nice to be a part of this occasion which publicly acknowledges the potential over 200 of your scholarship winners have. What can you say to the awardees, when you yourself were not an awardee in your time? For me, maybe it was good I did not win, because my school life created an external motor to excel in later years to…