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Congratulations
to all the
graduating
classes
of 2011
Graduation opens the door to life for Valedictorian
By Kaitlyn
MacLeod
For me,
graduation mean
two things and
first, it is a
celebration of ups
and downs
throughout the
years and second, it is also an
opening door to life. It’s a time to
celebrate what we’ve done in the
past, as well as look ahead to what
we’re going to do in the future. We
can laugh at all that happened, smile
even at the bad, and think back with
thoughts of our friends, teachers and
family. It’s hard to believe that it’s
been all those years since we started
kindergarten with Mrs. Hall, with all
that’s happened throughout our time
at Brussels Public School, to making
it through Grade 8 with Mr. Westra.
There were so many good days as
well as bad days that it’s hard to
remember all of them. Of all that has
happened there are a few highlights
like Mondays with Mr. Westra –
when he got angry and slammed the
door but the door didn’t catch and
slammed right back at him, Camp
Celtic with the bridge collapsing
under the boys’ feet and falling into
the creek and teachers finding secret
love notes, like when Mrs. McKee
received an embarrassing note that I
gave to Austin when Hayden found
it, or when we fell off the monkey
bars or got ourselves into fights with
our friends.
There were people who pushed us
down and there were people who
helped us up when we fell. In the
end we’re all friends and they’re still
there at the end.
Some think graduation is an
ending and it means we’re finished,
but I think we’ve only just begun.
Our time at Brussels Public
School has been a lot of things to
us: awesome, memorable,
interesting, or odd, mostly likely all
of them.
The new discoveries over the
years include dissecting animal
organs to spelling your own name;
learning new things such as where
babies come from or how to kick a
soccer ball. All of our
accomplishments mean something:
whether we made it on in the free
throw competition, learned how to
ride a bike, learned how to read and
write, they’re all important. There
was good and bad with everything
we did. From math to EQAO, from
gym to track and field. There are
things we were good at and things
we wish we could have understood
better.
It’s hard to believe that it has taken
us 10 years to get from Junior
Kindergarten to this moment at the
end of Grade 8. Today we are
graduates together. There have been
Brussels graduates
One of the final Grade 8 classes to graduate from Brussels Public School graduated on June
27. The class is, back row, from left: Mr. Marc Westra, Laura Souch, Olivia McArter, Curtis
Bloemberg, Wyatt Ducharme, Jacob Holthuysen, Tyler Bonner, Colton Hastings and Joel
Kipfer. Middle row, from left: Scott Dolmage, Jenna Thompson, Samantha Thyssen, McKinnly
Mitchell, Taylor Higgins, Stephanie Hummel and Kaitlyn MacLeod. Front row, from left: Reece
McArter, Hayden Ten Pas, Matthew Pipe, Mitchell Kellington, Austin Jaimeson Johnston and
Matthew McNichol. (Photo submitted)Continued on page 17