Year 12 students reflect and share

Year 12 students, Daniella Haklane, Annabelle Johnson and Angelina Eid, share their memories, aspirations and advice:

What are your best memories from your time at St Ursula’s?

Daniella 
Time spent with friends in classes as well as making new friends and strengthening connections with peers through extracurricular activities such as debating and choir. I will take with me the fun I had performing with my friends and travelling to different schools to compete.

Annabelle 
My best memories from my time at St Ursula’s are the simple things but they mean a lot to me – sitting with my friends at recess and lunch, inside jokes in each class, laughing with my teachers, learning interesting things in class. I also really love the memories I have outside the classroom, volunteering at school events and doing extra curricular activities – not only was I being given the privilege to serve my community, but I was also forming firm bonds with a variety of other girls in my grade and other grades other through the joy of getting involved and doing something a bit different! So I will always treasure simple things like helping on sausage sizzles, cold debating nights at other schools, helping in a Vinnies toastie truck, laughing along with everyone at Dancing with the Staff, decorating doors with my PC class – little things that happened outside of class time but that I will always treasure. 

Angelina 
Musical performances and spending time with my bestie.

What are your aspirations for the future?

Daniella 
I aspire to go to uni and eventually enter a career somewhere in health science and medicine. 

Annabelle 
I would like to study arts/law and pursue my interest in policy, international relations, political science, constitutional law – I have many interests! I hope that with this skill set in the future I can make a bit of a difference in the world, even in a small way. 

Angelina 
To be a musician who also composes and produces music, either in a band or for film

Can you give one piece of advice to students in younger years?

Daniella 
One piece of advice I’d give to younger students is to put aside any embarrassment and just get involved. Make the most of the opportunities presented to you because they can open so many new doors and can lead to many new experiences and friendships.

Annabelle 
My biggest piece of advice to students in younger years would be to make the most of every single opportunity that comes your way. Treasure your years at high school because they fly by but always remember that high school is more than just your classes – it’s the friends you make, the opportunities you have to grow as a learner but also as a person, the connections you form and the journey you are on. To me, making the most of high school meant always getting involved in what I could in the school community and it is through that that I have made some of my best memories! So I would encourage everyone to make the most of the whole school experience, even outside of the classroom. 

Angelina
Don’t change yourself for other people and always take on every opportunity that comes to you.