Salutatorian Speech

Families and friends welcome to Montgomery Village Middle School 8th grade promotional ceremony. Today we embark on a new chapter of our lives as we end our middle school careers. We’ve spent the past three years of our lives in this wonderful place. We were given the opportunity to grow and learn. Our teachers, one of our biggest supporters, the ones we have built relationships with. Our teachers have seen us grow. They have been our guiding hands throughout our middle school career. The teachers in this school deserve the world. They motivate us each and every one of us each day. Most of us were able to mature throughout middle careers. We’ve grown aware of our surroundings. We’re all well aware of what’s to come as we open the next chapter

First off I would like to congratulate everyone for making it this far. I would like to thank my classmates, my friends, and my family. I especially want to thank our teachers, for always supporting and encouraging us. If it weren’t for the people who support us daily, we would not be where we are today. I would like everyone to turn to their families, and teachers to thank them for all that they have done for us.

First, I would like to thank my mom for pushing me to my limit to get where I am today. I would like to thank all the teachers for preparing all of us for high school and beyond. I would also like to thank all my friends who have been there for me through thick and thin and have stuck with me since the beginning. It seems just like yesterday that we stepped into this same cafetorium to start our middle school experience taking that big leap from Elementary School to middle school. Now we find ourselves here, graduating ready to open a new chapter in our life. Who

Dear administrators, teachers, parents, beloved friends, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 8th grade graduation. It’s a pleasure to be standing in front of you today on this beautiful day to express the happiness we all feel.

Furthermore, I do not regret a single part of this year, and even parts of eighth grade I was dreading, such as the National History Day project, turned out to be wonderful learning experiences that I genuinely enjoyed participating in. Thank you, teachers for continuing to find ways to encourage our further learning. Thank you, fellow classmates for helping me and making me smile. Thank you, Mrs. Arzola, Mrs. Chung, and all of the South Pointe staff for investing in so many new programs. And finally, thank you to the whole South Pointe community for supporting each other as we all continued to grow together and find out what our true passions are. I am both excited and extremely nervous for my journey into high school, and I can only hope to find another school as great as this one, that will continue to shape our lives just as South Pointe has. So, as we exit the grounds today and move onto high school, I can’t help but think that we will all reconvene here when our children will have the privilege of walking in our

We didn’t get here on our own. That is why we thank our classmates, families, teachers, counselors, and administrators for supporting us throughout this journey. Most importantly, I thank and glorify God for giving us endless opportunities. I hope tonight is a night to remember because it marks the start of something new. After tonight, we gotta go our own ways because high school wasn’t meant to last forever. Right here, right now, it’s time to break free from dress code and standardized tests. As we go our separate ways, let us continue to support one another. I know our teachers are still here to help, whether with college coursework or advice for our futures. We can step into the world confidently because we have solid

Good afternoon honors students, staff and family members. It is an honor for me to be representing Mesa college in such an amazing occasion. As we all know, we are here today to celebrate another year of the Honors Program, and let me tell you that when I was first offered this opportunity I had such a difficulty deciding what topic I wanted to focus on for this speech. There are so many elements that make the honors program so amazing and successful. From the opportunity it gives us to challenge ourselves, to the fact that it makes us stand out when we apply to universities, it is always there to help us positively. However, there is one main element of the honors program that I will always consider the most important and life changing; this

I would also like to give thanks to the parents to stayed with their child and helped as much as they can for their kids. Without their help, I never would have tried as much as I did in school. I know it’s not easy for both teachers and parents to deal the attitude of teenagers, so thank you for bearing with us during those times; moreover, thank you for trying your best to understand and comfort us. Lastly, thank you to all of the staffs here in James Irvine Intermediate who had made the eighth-grade experience become a wonderful piece of memory to live with. The years I have spent at James Irvine Intermediate will be cherished and memories will never be forgotten. Thank

I don’t remember much from my first day of school, but my first years are still fairly present in my mind. Even though many parts are blurred as if seen through the misted glass door of a sauna, I still remember the first time I tasted jelly beans. It was during recess in front of the entrance of the school on a warm, sunny Floridian day. I got them from my first grade teacher, Mrs. Gilbert I believe. Despite it being a happy memory, the likes of it were not a central part of my first years.

Senior year came on much faster than expected. One day I’m the freshman trying to find where the Geography classroom was and the next, I’m the senior helping the new freshmen find their classes. They tell you these four years would fly, but until you experience it yourself, you won't believe how fast they actually go. So much changes in these four years and if you blink, you just might miss it.

Now on behalf of all of us graduating seniors, I'd like to thank all of the parents for all of the

Today is the day that I have been both eagerly and anxiously awaiting since the first day of freshman year: my valedictorian speech. I am sitting among hundreds of other students who are equally as prepared to receive their diploma and start their college careers as I. I am well aware that the last thing over four hundred teenage students want to do on a scorching summer day is sit and listen to my fifteen minute speech. I soon hear my queue from Mr. Joven, the principle, and begin to head towards the stage. Within the thirty seconds that it takes to rise from my seat and pass through the twenty other students in my row to the end of the aisle, a sensation of panic consumes my body. I feel my pulse bounding at every possible location, my hands sweating, and my legs trembling. Nothing is scarier than feeling that you are going to pass out. In this moment, it is difficult for me to decipher whether this panic attack is due to my enormous fear of public speaking, the heat, or a combination of both. I decide that it is a combination of both, but continue heading towards the stage as there is nothing I can do to escape. In an effort not to fall, I slowly walk up the five steps to the stage while tightly gripping onto the handlebar. I finally get onto the stage and walk towards the podium where I lay my speech. I look out to the audience, which from the stage looks more like a pool of a million dots, than it does people.

Hello, we would like to welcome and thank all of you for being here with us tonight to celebrate our high school graduation . It truly is an honor to be surrounded by so many significant people who have impacted our lives immensely throughout our highschool years. We would like to thank the wonderful people here tonight that we have the privilege to call our parents. Whether you are a mother a father, grandma or grandpa, or an aunt or an uncle; we are here, graduating today because of all of you.

Fellow graduates, classmates,staff members, school board members, family and friends, it is my pleasure to be the speaker of the 2018 graduating class, how I got picked to give this speech I have no idea, but we are here and i’m here just to graduate just like the rest of us. Some of us might just be going to Harvard on the hill also known as Crafton Hills College or some of us might be going away to a four year university and probably will end up dropping out because it's so expensive and move back home working at Mcdonalds making minimum wage, one thing we all have in common is we all suffered and we all think we are going to be rich and move out of this tiny boring town, but in reality we won’t, but hey we are here and we all are graduating. Shout out to all the families and friends that wanted to come watch a bunch of kids you don’t know graduate and watch the one person you come for walk past a tiny stage to grab a piece of paper for a solid 2 minutes. Also, Walt Disney for creating Disneyland and giving me good reason to ditch school all the time to enjoy a lovely day at Disney. He once said “If you dream it you can do it” and we all dreamed we would graduate high school so we can spend a life saving ongoing to more school and hate it even more. Anyways, since i’m here i’m going to share of life stories because i know you all have been worried about what’s happened in my life.

Welcome staff, students, family, and graduates. Today marks a special day in our lives. Today is the day of our graduation. It seems with every graduating class there is a certain amount of responsibility placed on the graduates. For this year’s class it is no different, in fact more has been placed on this class than any others in history.