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Graduation Speech For Graduation

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VALEDICTORIAN SPEECH
Good evening staff, students, families and friends to the grade 8 class of 2017’s graduation ceremony. I would like to genuinely thank you all for coming out here tonight to celebrate with us our bittersweet moments of graduation. I would like to acknowledge and express my gratitude to my fellow peers and grade 8 teachers for choosing me to be your valedictorian and spokesperson for tonight. It is such a great honour to be valedictorian because you all trust me enough to summarise some of the most memorable years of our lives. This night is an extremely special night for us. We will speak about our past, present and future. I think I can speak for all of us when I say we are at least going to miss one person in our grade. The bright side though is that we have grown together and the memories with this great community will always last. Plus, we will get to experience so much more in high school. New friends, teachers, subjects, challenges and memories. We should take advantage of our knowledge and expand on it to get the best high school experience. So really, we should be happy that we have a good ceiling for our base in Grade 9 as Mr Grandsoult says. Let’s start off with our firsts.
Now, the first day at St. Maria Goretti. Whether it be kindergarten or sometime this year, we’ve all had one. The nerves and excitement overwhelmed our minds when we walked these halls - our halls - for the first time. First teachers, first homework. A lot of our “firsts” shaped us into the awesome people we are today. Here’s another first we can all relate to.
Our first friend. Maybe they stood up to a bully for you or maybe they were the bully to you.
However you met, it doesn’t matter because as Griffins, we put aside our differences and let our friendships blossom. Our friends make the school life much easier and we are truly blessed to go to such a diverse school like SMG. The sports teams, clubs and events help us find new friends that we share interests with. Speaking of friends, I’m going to talk about a trip that brought some VERY unexpected friendships to be. Mansfield. The highlight of the grade. Although a lot of us, (let’s be honest), missed being away from our family for 5

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