Sunday 2 April 2017

Briar's winning year!

I just have to have a (belated) boast about our amazing youngest daughter, Briar, and her fantastic end to her Intermediate schooling career  :)
 
Each year we head along to prizegiving and sit through a couple of hours of speeches and awards and are always very proud of the achievements of our girls. But I have to say, 2016 just blew us away!
 
Briar has always had very good reports and success during her time at Tokoroa Intermediate and she enjoyed her time there, being challenged to strive for her best always, with some wonderful teachers who encouraged her immensely.
 
She participated in extracurricular activities such as choir, school production and squash and always gave 100% (well, most of the time!) It was a pleasure to see her take one of the lead roles in the school's bi-annual production and watch her confidence in public performing grow from that. She certainly takes great pleasure in performing... and singing! (see below)
 
So we attended the final prizegiving knowing that she would be on stage to collect one or two awards for her hard work. But the school always keeps the two top awards a secret-no one knows who will receive them! We sat through class awards, house captain awards, extracurricular awards and then the top 15 student awards. Finally it is time for the 'top two' -  the school names their Dux as well as the top student for overall excellence. Can you imagine our surprise when BRIAR was named as top overall student??!!
 
Te Tino Tangata for General Excellence!!!  OMG...I just started crying! I was SO proud of her-she had worked SO hard and it had all paid off for her. What an amazing kid  :)
 
 
 
 
The Te Tino Tangata for General Excellence trophy
 
 

 
Her major trophies

 
We are SO proud of your well-deserved success, gorgeous girl!

 
Look at that beautiful smile!

 
Trophies for Performing Arts and Drama
 
BUT WAIT...THERE"S MORE....

 
Not only did she win at school but then Briar decided to enter a singing competition on the national radio! After an over-the-phone audition she was rung back to say she had made the finals! She and two others had to sing live on the radio on Christmas morning and the winner was.....BRIAR!!!

 
OMG...we were all SO excited!! She did awesomely and was such a gracious winner. Her prize was a set of headphones and "Ollie" - a remote-controlled gadget that spins, zooms around and does other amazing stuff by control of an app on your iPad. So exciting for Briar and a great end to her outstanding year!

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