The service ended with the current Grade 12 leaders handing candles over to the incoming Grade 11 prefects, and the singing of the school songs, and then a surprise song and poem from my class - all bringing out lots of tears - but happy ones as we celebrated the 2 or 4 years of schooling that they'd achieved here at Marianville.


Am I looking forward to having to start a new round of goodbyes as the girls sit for their exams this week, and then leave us for good? Not a bit.

But it's all part of the circle I guess, and I need to focus on being proud of them and what we've achieved together, rather than the sadness of letting them go.