Yes – you are special. And more than any other group will remain etched in our memory. For your creativity and vibrancy. For the multitude of ideas you brought which have become a part of school – spirit week and student talent shows, a desire to excel academically, recycling and compost and much more. For making us proud of you. (And sometimes mad with you!).

But your history in the school has become part of a wider global history. Twenty years from now you will find commonality with other people around the globe who will say – I never sat the DP exam either. And see how little that mattered in life.

Because you will be the group with whom the world changed. When malls and airlines and restaurants and movie halls no longer existed in the old way. When wild animals roamed the street and the nature reclaimed the planet. When even in the twenty first century people walked home - even if it was 800 miles away.

I hope and believe that your time at Pathways has given you the skills to reshape your ideas and plans, to have the mental flexibility to adapt to the world you will grow older in, the empathy to understand different lives and experiences – and the desire to change things for the better. And for a group which chose to call yourselves ‘Invictus’ – the unconquerable – it is particularly fitting.

But some things will never change. You will always be a part of the Pathways family, always welcomed home here, always loved as our own, special children. That emotion isn’t something you can bury in your time capsule but it’s always there.

With my love and blessings

Shalini Advani

School Director