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Hullett GRADUATION 2006
`Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow
Class of 2006: The Grade 8 graduating class at Hullett Central Public School is, back row, from left: Alex
Vandereijk, Ryan Armstrong, Shane Zenker, Aaron Hillis,. Marshall Miller, John Nolan, Caitlyn Pollard and Gentry
Boyce. Middle: Tyler Middegaal, Kris jerg, Sheldon Reid, Cassie Salverda, Whitney Hulley, Matt Huether, Jordan
Bakelaar, Daniel Dery and Lucas Cooke. Front: Shawna Popp, Katelyn Roetcisoender, Amber Walton, Danielle
Bean, Liz Duggan-Ferrier, Robyn Kassies, Heather Hulley, Marsha Rozendal and Melissa Disher. (Vicky Bremner photo)
By Danielle Bean
Good evening
fellow classmates,
parents, guests and
teachers. A gradu-
ate is a person who
has been award-
ed an academic
degree. As mem-
bers of the 2006
Hullett Central
Public School
Grade 8 class, we meet that criteria. -
We have graduated from being imma-
ture children to being immature
adults, commonly known as
teenagers. We must learn from yester-
day, live for today and hope for
tomorrow.
We have come a long way over the
past nine years - from crying for our
parents when they left us on that first
day in kindergarten, to now wishing
that our parents will leave us alone for
a weekend, so we can have our
friends over and party.
Mrs. Kemp eased our fears, and
became our mother away from home
for a few hours every other day as we
explored indoor discovery centres and
the outdoor playground. We under-
went our first school concert and
enjoyed popcorn and TV while await-
ing for our turn to perform. We've
advanced from watching Disney car-
toon videos to experiencing high def-
inition DVDs on flat-screen TVs.
Attending school frequently in
Grade I had a huge impact on us. We
had to get ready for the bus or walk to
school every day. Ms Wiese would
always greet us at the door with a
cheerful "hello". I've read a passage
from Maya Angelou who wrote that,
"People will forget what you said,
will forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them
feel." I think many of the teachers at
Hullett fit this description.
In Grade 2, Mrs. Pletsch taught us
basic reading, writing and arithmetic,
and she also loved handing out
embroidered trinkets to each of us and
that made us feel so special. Helen
Keller said, "The best and most beau-
tiful things in the world cannot be
seen or even touched. They must be
felt within the heart."
Over the years Mrs. Barnett has
taught us how to no longer just hear
music, but to see and teel the rhythms.
With music videos and surround
sound stereo systems that is easier to
accomplish, but we have developed
from singing off-tune and making
funny instrument noises in our
younger grades, to presenting on key
pleasant tunes in our senior years in
band and choir. We have even created
our own unique CD in Grade 3/4.
Our artistic talents have evolved
from fingerpaintings on paper, to
elaborate dimensional art. We thank
Mrs. Snell for letting us help decorate
tonight and make this auditorium look
so nice.
It has turned from a room filled
with sweaty kids
chasing/batting/kicking and bouncing
various sized balls, to a platform pre-
senting beautiful young women and
handsome young men surrounded by
caring and supportive relatives,
friends and educators.
Our athletes in Grade 8 have done
well in every competition. Mr.
Drennan capably coached the senior
boys basketball, volleyball, and soc-
cer teams, and Mr. Caldwell ran an
efficient regional cross-country meet
and track and field day.
Mrs. Pickell and Mrs. Gilroy suc-
cessfully led our senior girls volley-
ball team this year, and Madame
Turcotte inspired the basketball and
soccer teams. Even our intramural
matches taught us respect and good-
sportsmanship.
This will be very important next
year because our friends may become
our opponents, since some graduates
will be attending GDCI, CHSS or St.
Annes. We have learned the impor-
tance of co-operating and communi-
cating as teammates throughout the
year.
From speaking only in English we
have improved a strong foundation
and understanding of French as a sec-
ond language. Merci, Mme.
Vandendool et Mme. Turcotte pour
votre assistance pour notre prepara-
tion pour l'ecole secondaire.
We continue to expand our reading
and writing, from researching our
projects by looking through an ency-
clopedia or book in our library, to
browsing sites on the internet. We do
not have to spend hours writing out
papers and notes by hand, but can
type out a polished, spell-checked fin-
ished project in minutes.
We also have gone from riding our
tricycles to discovering the need for
speed, on bicycles, dirt bikes, ATVs,
go-carts and of course in two years
time (more or less) we can get our
drivers' licences. I can hardly wait ...
road trips.
Speaking of trips, we have enjoyed
many school trips from sloshing
around West Wawanosh park with
Mrs. Pickell in Grade 3/4, to the
Toronto Science Centre in Grade 5/6
with Mr. Caldwell and now we will
finish off our year with Camp Celtic.
After tonight, there will be no more
science fair projects or speeches
(unless you choose to do one in high
school). What a relief for our parents.
Our parents have helped us with
homework, and supported us at athlet-
ic academic events.
Thank you to all our parents and
guardians as we now graduate and
learn how to fight our own battles and
become independent to make life
decisions. Sometimes as students we
required the guidance and discipline
that our principal, Mrs. Tebbutt, sup-
plied and the support from Mrs.
Miller, Mrs. Webster and Mrs.
VandenHeuvel to keep us heading in
the right direction.
We have also moved on from learn-
ing the basic ABCs in the primary
years, to handling split grade classes
and subject rotations with Mrs.
Gilroy/Mr. Holland/Mr. Drennan and
Mrs. Spittal in our senior grades.
We have adapted to change and real-
ize it is happening all around us
daily.
We have made and changed friend-
ships. A William Shakespeare quote
states, "A friend is someone who
knows who you are, understands
where you've been, accepts what
you've become and still gently invites
you to grow."
Congratulations to the Grade 8
graduates of Hullett Central Public
School. "How far you go in life
depends on you being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving, and tol-
erant of the weak and strong. Because
someday in your life you will have
been all of these."
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