The grade six students waved good-bye singing a 'leaving school' song they had been practicing for weeks. They also danced as one big group before their families. Most were dressed as if they were graduating from secondary college. Many of the girls had their hair set. Many of the boys wore ties. Some even came in stretch limousines (ten tumbling out of one of them). The venue was the Plenty Ranges Conference Centre at South Morang so it made for a very impressive and formal occasion, witnessed by up to seven invited guests per graduate (parents and siblings mostly). It was a nice way to send them off even though many of the parents there remarked that they had not graduated primary school with such fanfare. Peter remembers nothing at all at the end of his primary school years in North Queensland... 48 years ago!
The thing that seems remarkable in this picture is that the kids are still sitting on the floor, just like at school, this time in evening dresses and suits. :-)
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