Good afternoon year 11, I am incredibly pleased to announce that the end of GCSE exams is rapidly approaching, and there is a just a merely miniscule period of time until the extreme pressure of succeeding and stress of intensely crammed revision, which has been bogging us down for the past few months, is a weight soon to be lifted off of our shoulders. The severely exhausting experience which we have recently endured is likely to have been the most challenging so far in many of our short life spans - and in no means am I brushing off the hard work from previous years, but I am certain that the new, immensely difficult specification for maths and English has prominently increased our frantic panic to achieve the grades that we deserve. It has been a torturous, testing and timeless journey for all of us; but I am utterly proud of all of our incredibly hard efforts. We have made it… possibly having lost some of our sanity doing so but you can’t complain! …show more content…
Wrong. Now, I don’t mean to dampen your mood like the rainstorm of revision which has been welding you down the past few months, and I am definite that you’re either currently comparing me to your parents, or your minds are sprouting ideas of memes which you could create of me prior to this speech, but please hear me out. Yes, this summer will be an amazing break for all of us, although I plead you not to push aside the hardworking, knowledgeable individual that you are. GCSE’s have been a new experience which have strongly impacted your life, and although many of you may not see the purpose to them, the new qualifications which you will walk out of this very building with will propel you forward into achieving your full