Children graduate from Sunshine Daisy Nursery

From left: Four-year-olds Isabel Gardner, Abigail MacDonald, Sean McDonald, Charlie McKenzie, Alexander Richards, Django George, Mathilda Duckworth, and Jude Kelliher Buy this photo » From left: Four-year-olds Isabel Gardner, Abigail MacDonald, Sean McDonald, Charlie McKenzie, Alexander Richards, Django George, Mathilda Duckworth, and Jude Kelliher

IT was a big day in the lives of these four-year-old children as they graduated from their nursery school.

The nine youngsters, from Sunshine Daisy Nursery, in Andwell, said goodbye to staff at the nursery where they have spent the last few years, ready to move on to primary or infant schools. Parents were invited to watch their children perform in The Three Little Pigs before enjoying a cream tea made by the nursery pupils.

Each of the graduating children was then invited to stand up in a gown, holding a scroll, and present their parents with a daisy before being given a book as a gift from the nursery in the parting ceremony.

Claudia Padfield, manager at the nursery, said: “It went really well. They were really excited and it was nice because all the parents had afternoon tea with their children on the lawn, and the children saw it as a party.”

Comments(5)

Buster Preciation says...
11:55am Wed 19 Sep 12

Either these must be very intelligent kids or Michael Gove has a point. I had to spend three years at University and pass a load of very difficult exams to graduate.

robertspet8 says...
1:52pm Wed 19 Sep 12

Buster Preciation wrote:
Either these must be very intelligent kids or Michael Gove has a point. I had to spend three years at University and pass a load of very difficult exams to graduate.
I also understand Michael Gove's point about 'dumbing down'.
You should refuse to pay back your student loan Buster - after 13+ years at school and 3 years at Unversity you still don't know the meanings of 'graduate'.
:-)

Quimbo says...
6:24pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Bob's wrong, Buster's correct.

Here you go:

http://dictionary.re
ference.com/browse/g
raduate?s=t

I'm sure you can figure out how it works.

shame says...
8:11pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Technically it should be baccalaureate not graduated

robertspet8 says...
5:19pm Tue 2 Oct 12

Quimbo wrote:
Bob's wrong, Buster's correct. Here you go: http://dictionary.re ference.com/browse/g raduate?s=t I'm sure you can figure out how it works.
I'm afraid you have used a very narrow reference source Quimbo. My preferred English dictionary, the OED, lists 61 meanings of 'graduate' the first of which is to graduate from a university and the second is to graduate from a school or university. I will not bore you with the other 59 definitions.
There are very few words in the English language which have just one meaning - that is one of the things which help make it rich and beautiful.
What word would use in place of 'graduate', Buster and Quimbo?
Shame's contribution cannot be used because 'baccalaureate' is a noun and we need a verb here.

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