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ST MARK’S DEPUTY’S WORDS COME TRUE

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MBABANE – “Wait and see what will happen next year.” These were the words of St Mark’s High School Deputy Head Teacher Winile Dlamini in an interview last year after the release of the Swaziland General Certificate of Secondary Education (SGCSE) results.


In that year, the school was the second best in the country and had about seven pupils in the list of top performing pupils.


Performing


True to her words, the school brought its ‘A’ game this year as it maintained its second spot but with about three more pupils in the list of top performing pupils in the country.
Dlamini, describing how they felt about the results, said they were ecstatic. She said Form V was very significant to everyone, including the school as it launched pupils’ specific careers.
She said for the pupils to have performed the way they did gave them courage that as teachers, they did their work and had assisted them in their journey to tertiary level.
Appreciated


Dlamini said they appreciated the pupils’ efforts and posture to take advice which she believed yielded the results they had.
She also appreciated teachers for their commitment and said without them, the school would not have achieved the results it did.
She said the teachers performed beyond the call of duty and that gave them great pleasure that they worked with a team that gave it’s all.


Dlamini stated that parents played a pivotal role in the school’s performance. She stated that they played a huge role in ensuring that pupils overcame their challenges and were able to focus on their schoolwork. She emphasised that the school performed well because of the joint efforts between all stakeholders.
St Mark’s High School has about 10 pupils in the list of top performing pupils in the country.


This was the highest number of pupils from the same school in the top performers’ list.
Dlamini said under the circumstances the pupils wrote under, the pupils were able to swim against the tide and make sure that they made it. She said they were pleasantly surprised by the number of pupils from their school who are in the list of top performing ones in the country. She said it made them believe that they were capable of doing much better in the future.


Encouragement


“It is a big encouragement to see 10 pupils in the top 50,” Dlamini said.
She said pupils should believe in themselves and have it in them that they were capable of doing anything. She said this should not only be an advice to Form Vs but all pupils. She said believing that you can achieve something went a long way towards ensuring that you succeeded.
“The self conversation that you have, that speaks to your potential and ability, is very important,” Dlamini said.


She explained that people spoke more to themselves than others spoke to them. She said speaking positively to yourself went a long way in uplifting someone and making them perform at their best.
She stated that this year’s results showed that the current Form Vs had what it took to do better. She said they were all gifted in different areas and further encouraged them to think about their future.
“Everyone is competing to go to university so you are fighting for that as an individual as well,” Dlamini said.


Dlamini added that having forerunners performing this well should encourage the current Form Vs to do better. 
 As was the case last year, St Mark’s High School came second to KaBoyce High School.

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