Valedictorian Speech

Good evening friends, teachers, and families and welcome to our grade 8 graduation ceremony of 2010- 2011. You all must remember walking hand in hand with your parents on the first day of school and just like that I think you all will remember walking on your own across the stage today. Yet today is the day we have all been waiting for for ten years. Today is the day we graduate from elementary school and move on to high school. But don't forget that this isn't the end but it is a new beginning. We still have to conquer our dreams. Most of us have realized our dreams this year because this year was the year we found parts of our self and we started understanding ourselves better. And this year was the year where we made memories we will never forget. I will never forget all the horrible pranks we pulled off and all the rules we broke I won't recall any because I heard you can still get suspended on the last day of school.

But now I look back and remember all the good memories I had since kindergarten like play day and having our sabres stampede oh and I will never forget the funfair last year when we celebrated cranny's tenth anniversary. I am sure that I'm not the only one who remembers these memories because there are many people here who have been with me for the last 10 years and have enjoyed these events just like me. But moving on to more recent memories like track and field last year or stealing roses off the the rose bush on the other side of the fence or just acting crazy at times are memories that we will cherish because when we will look back we'll say these were the best years of our lives because as we move on to high school we won't be as free and we won't act as crazy because life will get harder and stressful.

But that doesn't mean we won't make memories, we will continue making memories while we are on our journey to reach our destination. We all have our own destination to get to. Someone here might be the future doctor who finds a cure for a disease or someone else sitting amongst you might be the future engineer who invents flying cars, The person sitting next to you might just be the future Bill Gates or Isaac Newton or even the future Albert Einstein. So as we all dream to reach our destination, whatever it is i hope that we will all succeed. I know I’m talking to quite possibly the greatest people I’ve ever known. The people I’ve spent everyday with for all my years of elementary school. I’ve seen the best of all of you, and I know that there are no better people to face what’s ahead. And whatever you have chosen to do, I know you’ll all do it and you’ll all do it well. I also know that we will never forget each other because we have all worked hard together to be what we are now. What we are now will define what we will be in the future so we should be face our fears and challenges with a positive attitude from now on so we can be successful in the future and in high school.

This year...It has been so amazing. And I can’t thank my teachers enough. They did all they could to make sure we had a wonderful ending year of elementary school. They not only taught us what we needed to know, but they made learning fun. Each one of them is unique, and that’s what made them teaching us so fun. And of course, I have to thank my friends and family. They’ve been with me whenever I had trouble, whenever I needed someone to talk to, or even a shoulder to cry on ,in the toughest parts of life; they’ve always been there. And they will continue to be with us all our lives.
Last but not least I would like to say that this year our grade 8 class has been like a family sharing our happiness and grief together, although we had some conflicts we all came together in the end.

So I would just like to congratulate the graduates and say good luck to all of you. Thank you