As the end of the 2024-25 school year approaches, so does the 8th Grade graduation. With their graduation, the school hosts several events for them, such as an end-of-year dance, breakfast, yearbook signing, a trip to the Wave, as well as several other trips out of state sponsored by PFC. They also host an 8th Grade Promotion where students officially graduate from middle school.
This year’s 8th Grade Promotion dance is Hollywood-themed and lasts from 6:30 to 9:00 PM on May 9th. Even if you don’t want to go, it’s still a place for you to hang out with your friends. It’s also one of the final events of your last year of middle school, so it’s likely that it is one of the final good moments you have for this year.
On May 29th, the 8th grade class gets to take a trip to the Wave as their second-to-last activity of the year. Students will go to their normal classes until around 10:30, where anyone whose parents filled out the permission slips will be able to walk to the Wave and have fun there until about 2:30 PM. There is no necessity to get into the water, but if you do, it must be within the Wave’s appropriate swimwear regulations.
The Yearbook Signing and Breakfast Event is on June 2nd, and like the name suggests, the school and/or PFC hosts a breakfast for the 8th graders. The Yearbook Signing will be held along with the event, and by then, everyone’s yearbooks will have been distributed. The event allows people to interact with their friends in other classes as well as get as many signatures before they say goodbye to friends who aren’t going to the same high school as them.
At the 8th Grade Promotion, our school’s student council, which consists of Lani Visitacion, Pranav Mehta, Saharsh Gadamsetty, Yuv Vij, and Mona Suliman, will speak on behalf of the student body, and announce the poem winner who will then read their poem to the crowd before they call the 8th Graders onto stage. You receive a graduation lei depending on whether your parents bought one for you once it’s your turn to go up.
Some of the trips offered that take students out of state and some out of the country are trips to the Mediterranean, Japan, Yellowstone, or Washington D.C. All of these trips take place during summer break, although some trips include 7th Graders.
The 8th Grade Events are a perfect way to end the graduating class’s year. They make sure that even if your school year wasn’t the year you were hoping for, you’ll still have a few happy memories and photos to look back on.
