8th Grade Promo Speech

Let me begin by welcoming all of you to today’s event and thanking (NAME OF PERSON WHO INTRODUCED ME) for that kind introduction.

I’m very pleased to have been invited to speak here today on what I know is a very special day. It’s special for us, the graduates, for our proud parents and grandparents, and for our very relieved teachers. Just wait until we, students are graduating college. Then our parents will be the relieved ones.

As I begin, I have to say, I think the best speeches are those that have a great beginning, a memorable end, and not much in between. I will try then to make a great speech. Today is one of those great occasions when we get to celebrate our young people – their achievements, their perseverance and their successes as they grow up. It’s one of the times you can take a break and reflect, feeling good as a parent or a mentor, knowing that the kids you care about are doing just fine and they’re on the right path.

Fellow students, you should know that your moms and dads are very proud of you today. They have high hopes for us, and they believe in us, and we are making them proud by showing what we can do. Take a look at them now, and you can see them smiling and snapping photos so they can record this moment forever. Today is an important day for us and for them. Today they are very, very proud of us. (PAUSE) Today would be a good day to ask for money.

But remember, no one succeeds alone. Today would also be a good day to hug them and thank our faithful family and helpful school faculty for supporting us, because as much as this is our achievement, this is also the achievement of the people who care about us. That means our moms, our dads, our step moms or step dads, our grandparents, our sisters and brothers, and all the other people who care about us. They want us to be our best and to live up to our potential.

Graduations can be seen as a coming of age, a sort of official way to recognize when a person steps into the next stage of life, and graduates, you are stepping into a new stage.

With every year,

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