IT was an emotional day for senior students of Ratu Kadavulevu School who were inducted as school prefects at the school’s chapel last Sunday.
Many who were badged by their parents and teachers simply reminisced about their years at the school and treasured the moment of being inducted together in their final academic year.
Tears flowed as the prefects were inducted leaders of the school. It will surely be a memory etched deeply within the senior students’ hearts when they leave the school.
The school chapel was a sea of colours as students, parents, teachers, old scholars and well-wishers turned up in numbers to attend the school investiture event.
Nikolai Seduadua of Burerua Village in Sawakasa, Tailevu was inducted as head boy while Isoa Rabuli of Vadravadra Village in Gau, Lomaiviti was inducted as the deputy head boy.
Seduadua and Rabuli pledged to be good leaders and to leave the school a better place than when they first entered the school gate.
Seduadua, who hopes to be a military officer when he finishes his studies, said he had to overcome a lot of challenges to be head boy.
He said he would lead by example and work hard in his final year to make his family proud. Seduadua is no stranger to being a leader.
He held class captain and prefect positions in the school before being inducted as the head boy this year.
The 18-year-old, like the other prefects, captains and assistants, looks forward to what is ahead.
School principal Ilaisa Waqalala said it was important for students to know who they were as individuals.
Mr Waqalala said the students are to know their purpose and what they were there to do at the school.
He said students know what was good and what was bad and they should be good examples to others, especially the prefects that were inducted in the school.
