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Year 12
Upon choosing ‘Dare’ as the 2021 theme, I do not think we realised how applicable it would become. 2021 brought our cohort a myriad of surprises –both good and slightly less good – but nevertheless, we ‘dared’ to take these challenges in our stride… The year started off strong; SACs were few and far between and the Year 12 Formal was coming closer by the minute. With the constant demands and hefty workload of Year 12, you would think finding a formal dress would be the least of our worries – but you would be surprised. As Formal came and went with the end of Term 1, COVID-19 continued to hum quietly in the background, eventually sending us back into our lockdown routines of 2020. Although the antics of the Year 12 Common Room and the constant presence of friends were sorely missed, the art of subtle online school sleep-ins and excitement upon seeing a fellow classmate at the local vaccination clinic seemed to mitigate the better half of our worries.
With the creativity of the 2020 Year 12 cohort to thank, the class of 2021’s online experience was filled with a plethora of inter-year-level activities that kept us engaged. From competitive scavenger hunts to baking, online House Cross Country and strenuous Zumba routines, our time spent online was far from dull. We were ‘dared’ to leave a legacy and you best believe we gave it our best shot.
Much quicker than anticipated, the pointy end of Year 12 appeared signalling our time at St Catherine’s was fast approaching its end. This realisation was met with both excitement and apprehension, but the response of our teachers cannot go unnoticed – from the arrival of surprise COVID care packages, Year 12 jumpers and exam study packs, their efforts re-established our motivations and allowed us to persevere towards the end of such an unpredictable year. The class of 2021 brought a prodigious amount of resilience and courage to our final year. Through the challenges brought to us by a global pandemic, our cohort has risen above setbacks and upon reaching the other side, has embodied the St Catherine’s 2021 theme, ‘daring’ to embrace the challenges thrown at us whilst leading the younger girls through unprecedented times.
Tamsin Sleigh Year 12 Student
YEAR 12
GEORGIA BOOTS “Can you stop breathing so heavy.”
YANQI (VIVIAN) CHEN “I haven't started either – words of comfort.” SASKIA CHRISTIAN “Yeah nah, loved being on campus this year. x”
CHLOE COOPER “When's the due date?” FLORENCE (FLOSSIE) CORSHAM “Don’t yuck my yum. ”
ISABELLA BUFÉ ZZZ LUCY CAMPBELL “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” – Mr D ZARA CARTER “Sorry, just doing my folios. xx” YINUO (CATHY) CHEN “Life goes on, let’s live on.”
ALEXANDRA DEMETRIOU “Gonna miss my long journey to School everyday.” FRANCESCA DEMETRIOU “Just keep swimming.” ALLEGRA DENNISON “You can’t vaccinate against stupid.” ALLISON DUONG “I think I have a caffeine dependency.”
YEAR 12
MADELEINE (MADDIE) HARDY “Ummm, I’m not sure, maybe like I need a nap or something?”
ISABELLA (ISSY) HORNOR “Accascuse me.” SIN SANG (APRIL) HUANG “Believe in yourself!” ELLA JOHNS “Going healthy tomorrow.” CHLOE JOUBERT “It is what it is.”
ANOUK HEIDENREICH “Should I sleep, Or should I shower? I could sleep in the shower, but I’m also starving.” – Cristina Yang
STELLA HEIDENREICH “Pardon, what, sorry, huh?! What, I wasn’t listening. Can you say it again?”
KATHERINE HERC “You can't fail if you never try.”
KELLY HIEW “I create study schedules to not follow them.
MIA JURCEVIC “Do PE for Homegirl Hicks.” LUCY KEILAR “Honk.”
ELOISE KEWLEY “CEO of being interrup-”
DEÁNA LALETAS “Just your average private school Greek.”
YEAR 12
TABITHA MANSON “What a meme.”
SORAYA MEOR ZAIN AZMAN “Soroya, So-ray-a, Soria ... it doesnt really matter, I've heard them all at this point.” RUBY MOIR “I peaked in Year 7 (vertically).”
MAYURI MURALIDHARAN “Someone, I tell you, in another time, will remember us. (Sappho)”
ISABELLE MUSSON “Go away I need to eat.”
EMILY MAREN “24,297 hours of School later…” EMILY MCALLISTER “Just do it.” HOLLY MCGLAUGHLIN “Justacow (demo3).” TINGQUAN (GLORIA) MENG “Looks like I've arrived 40 minutes early.”
OLIVIA NASH “My English essay may be overdue, but at least the Common Room kitchen is clean.” CLEMENTINE (CECE) NEWTON-BROWN “Don’t act like you’re not impressed. ” MEGAN (MEG) NIXON “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf NATALIA OBEROI-KEARNEY “Yes, I’m Indian. No, I do not speak ‘Indian’.”
YEAR 12
EMILY RYAN “... and it’s everybody else around me that’s got issues” – Scott Disick
EMERSON STUCHBERY “I'm so behind on sleep. I'm going to have to pull an all-nighter.”
ANNABEL SWEETNAM “I’m good at everything except modesty, which I’m great at.” – Gina Linetti JIAXIN (JASMINE) TAO “Eat, sleep, play, repeat.” HELENA THORBURN “Sorry I'm late.”
ELIZA SEYMOUR “Sorry.”
RUBY SEYMOUR “I’m growing a tree.” TAMSIN SLEIGH “The honorary psych teacher.
CHARLOTTE STERN “Yes, I am vaccinated…”
ALESSIA TZELEPIS
BRIDGET VOGEL-PAUL “Have you taken your medication?” GEORGINA VOTE “Sometimes I wonder if all of this is happening bc i didn’t screenshot that Instagram post and forward it to 10ppl in 2014.”
SOPHIE WILLIAMS “OMG, guess what it is?”
YEAR 12 2021
