All of those treasured memories could never fit into this one book…However, in words and pic-tures, some of your most memorable moments over the last five years can be flipped through ev-ery now and then for inspiration and motivation to consume in your hard times within the shin-ing future. It was the beginning of the journey to life. The true meaning... the true ingredients and foundation needed for a higher standing to success...Make everyone proud.

All the best,

The Yearbook Committee

Make everyone

proud.

Be Sure to Endure(Message from the Principal)

Shine Ahead(Message from the Yearhead)

Farewell To all

Our Thanks to You

Back in the Days

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The ...est Students

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We’re On Our Way - Our Graduation

About Our School

Next Stop 2010

Who’s Most likely to be ...

Outstanding Peeps

Ade’s Five Years

Memorial Tribute

Be Sure To Endure

You have come to the end of your secondary school career and you are about to embark on another stage of the journey through life, the stage leading to adulthood when you must take increasingly greater responsibility for the outcomes of your life.

As you face the future, I want you to reflect on the following words of that great thinker Thomas Jefferson: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

You have chosen as the theme for your graduation: “We’re on Our Way.” I hope that you have a sense of where you are going and how best you can arrive there. Whatever your ambition, there are certain eternal values that represent the best armour which you can don in your battle to overcome the odds that face you: discipline, character, integrity, perseverance, respect for authority, courage, confidence and constancy are all among those values.

In wishing you a successful and happy future, I urge you to be positive and determined as you pursue your dreams. Our attitudes control our lives. You are truly on your way when you see the imperative of focussing on where you wish to go, rather than on the obstacles along the way.

There is a Chinese proverb which says that “failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up.”

I wish you all good luck: but you will determine your own luck by the effort that you bring to all your pursuits.

Shine Ahead

Dear Students,

It is with great pleasure that I congratulate you on reaching a major milestone in your lives. These last five years have sometimes been challenging, frustrating and entertaining. You will always hold a very special place in my heart and as you so of-ten point out because you were my very first year group I was totally responsible for.

However, there are some things I would like to remind you about which I have said throughout the five years we were together. Remember Ms Yearwood loves you and only wishes the best for each of you. I hope you are on your way to be-ing the best and making everyone proud. Finally I want you to remember the questions I use to ask you while you were on the corridor instead of class – why are you here? Where are you go-ing? Have you been given permission? Where should you be now? Please return to where you should be as quickly as possible. These are ques-tions you can ask yourself as you embark on the next stage of life: Have a good reason for where you are; know where you are going and how you

I will be praying for each of you – God Bless.

Your Year Head

Farewell to All…

plan to get there; make sure the permission you give yourself to make decisions in life is based on sound judgement. If you ever stray from the path you should be on return as quickly as possible to where you should be.

Farewell to all

Deighton Griffith was really not my first choice in a Secondary School and I hadn’t really thought of it, but to be honest when I found out I was coming here, I was actually happy. Deighton turned out to be nothing like I expected, and more than I had hoped for. Here I gained friendships with students, teachers and non teachers alike. I have friends that I can trust and who appreciate me and respect me, for whom I have I learned new things, and was opened to new experiences and new ways of learning. I haven’t experienced other secondary schools but I believe that Deighton Griffith isn’t like any other. The teachers and staff are there for you and care about what you do with your LIFE.

Their principles and ways of teaching showed me a different aspect to life. They taught me so many things and helped me to be a better person. Meeting the people at Deighton Griffith has changed me. They have helped me to be a better person, which has given me more self confidence and made me more disciplined. I won’t say that it has always been dandy and that me and the teachers have

Jeana Millar Head Girl

always seen eye to eye, but I’ve learned that that is the way life is, and no matter what, I should respect other’s opinions. They say that school years are the best years of your life, and I can truly say that my five years here have been great. I will miss Deighton Griffith Secondary and the special people here. You will always have a special place in my heart.

From the year, 2005 when I entered the gates of Deighton Griffith Secondary School my only wish was to further my education.

What I did not expect was to find such a wonderful family outside of my home. My school life at Deighton Griffith had its fair share of “ups and downs” and it has taught me that everything does not always go as planned but what I have learnt is that you do not give u. You always have to keep trying and as the school motto says, “Discipline Guarantees Success”. To all the graduates of 2010, I am so sorry to be saying goodbye to all you wonderful people at this school that I have endured during my school life and I would like to wish all God’s richest blessings in all your endeavours.

To those we have lost and those who did not complete the journey with us, I wish you a wonderful life. I would also like to encourage everyone to follow their dreams and do every legal thing they can to make life better for themselves. Again, I wish you all a blessed, wonderful and fruitful future.

Ps. To Avonda Mason, may she rest in peace.

Shanice Best - Deputy Head Girl

My years at Deighton have been enjoyable and one of many memories. It is at this bitter sweet moment that the hour glass has finally run out of sand. I remember just a few years ago, the very first hall prayers where my school mates and I were at the bottom of the food chain with Ms. Yearwood as our Year Head. I said to myself that she is going to be one tough first form Year Head and was rejoicing in the fact that she would be gone by the end of the first year not knowing that that was not the case. I remembered her saying that she would be our Year Head from first straight through to fifth. Now I know that when she said those words, many hearts sunk and faces were frowned but that would pass as I have come to know her as a woman who had the best interest of all of us in her heart.

It was only when I reached fourth form that my friends and I really started reflecting on our years. Sadly, we remembered some who started this journey with us in First form are not here as we complete it. There were shocking moments, friendships broken and love lost and it all happened on the real life TV show called DGS. Many say they won’t miss Deighton only their friends but I know for a fact that those memories wouldn’t be alive in our minds if it didn’t take place on the green stairs, red stairs or the form rooms on a piece of land where we spent five years or more called DEIGHTON GRIFFITH.

Chelston Maloney - Deputy Head Boy,

Not every class was I excited to attend but with the favourite students who either were named ‘the class clown’ or ‘life of the class’ present, they made it pleasurable. Sure, some teachers were strict while others were lenient but I know I got the work done and was always on time with the assignments. If not, it was either detention, being reported to the Year Head to receive her lashes called ‘fly bites’ or to the principal to suffer a different fate.

So with all that said, I can proclaim that I’m a proud graduate of the Deighton Griffith Secondary School with my head held high I can say that I have learnt to trust judgment and I know that I will remain positive throughout the journey wherever life takes me.

In the beginning, I was anxious... Walking into the school gates for the first time took the most out of me. I knew no one and I felt lost. I could remember I was the soft one, the one that took insults, various criticisms from most people because of how I was... never taking much notice myself. But it was a lesson. As the years passed by, I got stron-ger from that. And I was blessed to be in an institution like the Deighton Griffith Sec-ondary School because I learnt so much... Through all of the ups and downs, I will forever carry this school within my heart because it means so much to me... Although I don’t show it (Wasn’t really a fan of com-ing to school Ha-ha!)... I am going to miss carrying out my duties with the first years, walking around with my badge on this left collar of mine...I am going to miss everyone at Deighton Griffith School. I wish each and every one of you success as we make our steps through the future of life... stay safe and take care of yourselves.

Malissa Millington 5-6 - 1st Year Senior Prefect

Our Thanks to You

You have been nice to us. Like a mother …, Worrying and always running up and down behind us making sure everything was well done. To be honest most of us were scared of you the first time we met you. Don’t talk about the bamboo…Eeks! Even though some have argued with you, some have shown negative behaviour towards you, some have said bad things to you and behaved in a manner to annoy you… Ha Ha! – Trust us all…We really love you. You looked out for us al the way these last five years! You are one of the reasons that we are where we are right now.

Class of 2005 – 2010