07 Oct 2011
These students get full marks Dear Sir, Last Thursday I was privileged to be invited, along with my Vice President Owen Bennett, to attend the Year 12 graduation at Marsden High School. The whole ceremony was quite revealing as to the quality of young Australians living in our community. Some rare artistic talent was exhibited, first by Naomi Sommers in singing ‘Steer', and then by Amelia Park who without any reference to sheet music played piano pieces by Chopin and Bach. The addresses by 2010 Dux Nimisha Kshatriya and guest speaker, former student Anna Wotton, dispelled any notion that students were disadvantaged by undertaking a comprehensive, public secondary education. The outstanding academic, cultural and sporting achievements of Marsden High School are a credit to the teachers, parents as well as the students themselves and should also be embraced, with pride, by the wider community. BERNIE COX |