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Fourth-grade students earn diplomas
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Stadium Drive Elementary had a fourth-grade graduation on June 3 for the students to receive diplomas from their teachers.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students were called up one-by-one at Stadium Drive Elementary to get their diplomas and shake principal Jim Goske's hand during the graduation on June 3.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.The students' families came to the fourth-grade graduation at Stadium Drive Elementary on June 3 to watch the students receive diplomas.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Stadium Drive principal Jim Goske passed out the diplomas to the fourth-grade students as their homeroom teachers called their names.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
Stadium Drive Elementary School hosted a graduation ceremony for the fourth-grade students on June 3.
Families and friends watched the students as they walked across the stage to celebrate receiving their diplomas and graduating from fourth grade. All of the fourth-grade teachers took turns announcing the students in their homerooms. The teachers gave a little speech about their homeroom students before they called the names. As the names were called, the students walked up to the stage, shook hands with Goske and got their diploma. The students lined up in front of the stage until everyone in the class was called.
“I think we’ve had a lot of fun getting to know each other. We’re definitely a family, we’ve had a lot of laughs in our class,” said Lisa Hughes about her fourth-grade language arts class.
After the students received their diplomas, some students were called up to receive one of two President’s Achievement awards. One of the awards was for educational achievement and the other for educational excellence. The achievement award was given to students who earned all A’s and B’s the first three grading periods and the excellence award was given to those who got all A’s or all A’s and one B for the first three grading periods.
A photo slideshow was shown to the students and guests after all of the awards were given to the students. The pictures consisted of baby pictures of the fourth-graders and other activities they were involved in during their time at Stadium Drive.
When the ceremony was over, the students had the option to stay in school or go home and spend the rest of the day with their families.