Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

To all my students (that sounds a bit like Yoda, doesn't it?) have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

To S1, keep enjoying yourselves and work hard.

To S2, start thinking about your career choices and what works best for you as an individual. You have to pick subjects for 2 years!

To S3, remember it won't be long before you are in S4 and facing the only exams of your life you can't resit. So no pressure then.

To S4, you have your Prelim out of the way and now to do a good job in the projects. We need you all to attend and work to your very best. I honestly think you can achieve some great grades with a little bit of hard work.

To S5 and S6, some of you show great maturity and work hard, some of you sadly are still a wee bit immature and to be brutally frank should have left school.

You guys do not realise it but you are role models for all the younger pupils. Your actions come with responsibility and have consequences.

But all is not lost for you. You have the Prelims coming up and I know there will be some people achieving great grades, some doing okay and others who we will have no choice but to change levels.

The challenge I set to you all is prove me wrong. If I said you will get a C, make me eat my words and get a B. If I said B, then get an A. If I said you will probably end up in Int 2, then go dazzle in the Prelim.

There is nothing I would like better than to say well done to senior school students who have achieved and earned their grades.

I do not want to frighten you but if you are going to University or College you'd better get used to the pressure of exams as you have this pressure in your lives for the next 3-5 years, and a lot more frequently.

It is tough at the top!

Best Wishes

MM