First of February round-up of FDC news
As ever, our
year has started on a busy note. We have taken on seven new Form 1 students who
have all now started at school. It is very difficult deciding who to support
out of a wonderful and worthy group of candidates who present themselves at our
door in late December to early January, hoping to be taken on. We wish this
fortunate group all the best as they start out at secondary school. May they
continue to work hard and make the most of every opportunity.
Our year ended
in equally busy mode, with the Christmas party and prize-giving. Many thanks
again to all who attended – committee members, visitors, sponsors, parents and
students alike. Our huge thanks must also go to KPS who once again kindly
donated food for the party.
Our guest speaker, Anthony Muriithi, was such
an inspiration to all our students and had a captivated audience. Despite being
disabled by polio at the age of two, he has not let this disability stand in
his way. He managed to attend Alliance High School and then Nairobi University.
Not only has he found a fulfilling and interesting job at Safaricom, where he is
a Team Leader, he has also married, has a baby boy, and has set up and runs his
own business together with his lovely wife. With great humour and honesty he
mapped out the challenges of his life and the great pleasure he derives from
it. His main message was that in order to succeed in life one has to first want
success and then be consistently determined and hard working to achieve it. He
also spoke about self-esteem and insisted on the benefits of staying strong and believing in yourself
through good and bad. His famous phrase is that “You cannot control what people
say and think about you, but you have control on how to react. What is
important is, what do you think about yourself?”
He also shared what he referred to as his
‘five power points’ to start each day:
1. I am the best
2. I am a winner
3. God is always with me
4. I can do it
5. Today is my day.
Everyone left at the end of the day wiser,
inspired and possibly a little humbled by his positive attitude to life.
The party was also the occasion to recognise
our prize winners. Below we see Solomon Murithi receiving his prize from Pop
Gunson as top Form Three student and next is Jackson Kanyua receiving the prize
for top Form Two student:
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| Solomon receives his prize from Pop Gunson |
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| Jackson receives his prize from Pop Gunson |
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| Proud parents and guests enjoy food provided by KPS |
The full list of prize winners is below:
Form 1-3 best academic prizes:
Form 1 Grace
Wambui
Form 2 Jackson
Kanyua
Form 3 Solomon
Murithi
Top in class prize:
John Kibue
Effort and participation prize – Karen
PCEA Church luncheon:
Emily Ngina
Chairman’s Prize:
Jane Wanjiku
We wish you all the best for 2018 and hope
that you will enjoy following FDC throughout the year. Thanks for your
continuing support and generousity.
