Good morning fellow students and teachers. I tried writing this speech so many times, but it’s heaps harder than it looks. We each got given a sheet with pointers on what to say in our speech, like little questions we should answer, and I tried to keep to that as much as possible and answer the questions as honestly as I could but I dunno how well I’ve done with that. But here it goes anyway. Saint Ursula’s is all about interconnectedness between year levels. For me encouraging interconnectedness would be through encouraging activities in Pastoral Care. Through PC you make so many great friends from other year levels. During your high school years you really get to know these girls and it’s great to have girls older than you giving you advice about what’s ahead. At PC you spend many a great mornings sitting around talking to girls both younger and older than you and finding out what’s happening with the other grades whether it’s about camps, assignments or just the latest goss. Saint Ursula’s day and especially the boat race, which is done in PC’s, is a time were you really get involved with girls from other grades. It makes school so much easier and comfortable to know girls from other grades. To have someone there who is older than you that you can talk to and some one younger that you can laugh with. My ideas for making saint Ursula’s a happy place for all is through promoting all the different types of activities going on in the school. Whether it’s academic, cultural, sporting or service all areas should be equally recognized. Everyone has different interests and likes doing different activities. Students would feel much more comfortable and accepted if all the different clubs and areas they are involved with were equally promoted. Sports days are great to recognize girls with sporting talents and end of year awards ceremonies are great to promote girls who academically do well. But to make all girls feel as though they belong we need to try to support all...