8th Grade Graduates Shine
Along with their family, friends, fellow students and staff, our 8th grade students celebrated their graduation from St. Bonaventure Indian School. Commencement activities included an all-school prayer service for the graduates on May 14th and graduation ceremonies on the evening of May 15th.
We are very proud of the accomplishments of our graduates – seven of them received a President’s Award for academic excellence or achievement and all of them have plans in place to continue their high school education in the fall. Half of the class of twenty graduates began their schooling in pre-school or Kindergarten at St. Bonaventure Indian School.
As part of the prayer service, the 8th grade students each passed a candle flame to the candle of a 7th grader to symbolize the passing of knowledge and leadership, welcoming the 7th graders into their new responsibility of role model for the younger students.
Please share our prayer for the shining 8th grade graduates, written and delivered by our 7th grade teacher, Mr. Andrew Bradley:
“Lord Jesus, we gather this afternoon to offer you first our thanks and our praise. You have brought these students to a holy time in their lives – a time when they must leave the old and face the new. A time when they may leave behind teachers and friends who are dear to them knowing that their love – a reflection of your own – will be with us always. We ask that you be with us now as we celebrate their graduation from St. Bonaventure and prepare to walk forward into the future as ‘children of the light.’”
We will miss each one of our graduates, but we know that in God’s loving care and with the support of their family, friends and the St. Bonaventure community they will go on to continued success and a bright future.
