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DEPUTY HEAD GIRL’S ADDRESS

To the Class of 2025—we have only ever known So I beg you—live. Really live. Take as many
the comfort of the big blue gates. A world which risks and make as many mistakes as possible,
is like riding a bike with the training wheels still because there is nothing worse than living with
on. But the real world is a different place, a the “what ifs.”
mysterious environment that we can never even

begin to comprehend. We have the unending After we leave this hall today, I want you to think
trials of foundation, A-levels, and even university to yourselves: if this were my last day on this
for some of us, and while we put on brave faces planet, would I have done everything I would
and pretend not to be terrified, on the inside we have wanted to do? If the answer is no, then
are all a little terrified of what awaits us on the what are you waiting for?
other side. But that’s okay.
And if you ever doubt your abilities, remember

I won’t lie to you and pretend it is going to be that I am 16 years old—which may not seem like
easy, but if there is any group of people capable much—but it’s something to me.
of braving the storm, it is the people seated in
front of me today. This smart, artistic, rowdy So for the last time, my name is Aisha Abdulsalam,
group of boys and girls who overcame every and it was an honour serving as your Deputy
obstacle that was hurled at them—from online Head Girl.
school in Year 7 to finishing IGCSE.
This is the Class of 2025, signing out.
So to my wonderful yearmates, I’ll end where I

began, with the words of Steve Jobs:
THIS IS THE

“Death is very likely the single best invention of
life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old
to make way for the new. CLASS OF 2025,
Remembering that you are going to die is the
SIGNING OUT.
best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you

have something to lose.”

Remember that at this very moment, you are the
“new”—and that does not last forever. So dream
big. Live your life for yourself, because our time
is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s
life.

Oscar Wilde once said, “To live is the rarest thing

in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

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