For the last month or so, life at work has been really busy getting ready for the graduation of our Sky class as well as preparation for the new school year.
Graduation day was held last Saturday and it was a really nice day for the students and their parents. It is also one of the only days of the year where our staff has to wear formal work wear.
By the end of the ceremony there most of the people in attendance had cried at least once. (and not just the students, but the parents as well). As Rainbow class teacher, I also was an MC for the day as the other full time preschool teacher was busy doing things such as presenting diplomas, giving a speech and leading the graduating students in a variety of things.
Throughout the ceremony, a variety of things happened. The students received their diploma, read a letter to the students in the younger classes, gave a gift they made to the school, received gifts from students from the other classes and from the teachers, listened to speeches by their teacher, our boss and one of the mothers of a student from the graduating class, listened to letters from the younger students, sang a song, presented gifts to their Sky class teachers, and also presented flowers to the teachers who will no longer be at our school for the next school year, and it was finished with a song sang by one of the student's mothers in addition to group and other pictures. It was a busy day for them, but they had practiced a lot and worked really hard, so I'm glad it went well for them.
After the ceremony, all of the teachers saw the younger students get picked up by their parents, and then we proceeded to take down decorations and return all of the things that had been taken out of the classroom back to their proper spots. By this point, we were all quite hungry, and headed out to a really nice lunch all together, which was a combination of a year-end and farewell lunch. We ate a multi-course Japanese meal. It was delicious!
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