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Truro School Foundation
Prep Speech Day 2022
Celebrations, applause and emotions were on the agenda for this year’s Prep Speech Day, as the School welcomed pupils, family and friends to celebrate the achievements of another fantastic year. During the afternoon, teachers also said fond farewells to Year 6, who were wished every success in their ventures up to Senior School, and to the superb outgoing Head of Prep, Sarah Patterson.
Addressing Sarah, the Head, Andy Johnson, said, “Your genius in this School has been to generate this love, and an amazing sense of warmth and family. That is precious at any time, but has been perhaps all the more important and valuable over the last two years when so much else in so many people’s lives has been so disrupted. It is a rare and precious achievement. I can see it, I feel it here today, and it will be a powerful legacy that you leave. I have no doubt you will create it to the benefit of so many children in the next chapter of your life too, for which we all wish you the very, very best.
We look forward to welcoming Old Truronian Robert Morse CO89 as Head of Prep following Sarah’s departure.
Senior Speech Day 2022
A fantastic finale to the school year took place with the return of the Senior Speech Day, where we welcomed pupils, students, staff, family and friends from across our community, nationally and internationally.
Speeches included Head Girl and Head Boy; Chair of Governors, Mr Richard Thomas; Head, Mr Andy Johnson; and it was an honour to welcome guest speaker, the TV and film director and Old Truronian, James Hawes CO82.
“Today is about success, success in all its flavours; it’s about your achievements as individuals, as teams. The success of your teachers, the School as a whole, and of your families for supporting you through this year. And for all of you who may not have received a prize, but for achieving another year.” James encouraged our pupils to dream: “In my job I am paid to dream, to imagine a world, to see in my mind how something will become real.”
He continued, “Dare to dream, dare to ask, and when you are given an opportunity, grab it with both hands and make it possible. It probably won’t be an immediate success. It will involve hard work, but it could very well turn out to be an adventure and a big stride in the way to the sort of future that you count as success… Success will be different for each of you and only you should decide what success means to you.”
Mr Johnson wished the leavers well:
“There is an exciting year ahead. For our leavers, your journey continues elsewhere but you travel with your bags full of our blessing and of our support. With the friends that you have made here, and empowered by the knowledge, skills and values that you have developed, and always with a warm invitation to see us in the future.”
