Graduation ceremony in spring

Graduation ceremony is the end of upper secondary school

Students who have passed matriculation examinations become secondary school graduates and they receive white cap as a symbol of it

Programme

Speeches of the headmaster, graduate and graduate’s parent

Music including traditional Gaudeamus igitur in Latin

The moment when the graduates are allowed to put the white caps on

After the celebration in school the new graduates get flowers outside from their family

They are also photographed and then they go to soldiers’ graves

Parents and close relatives come to the graduation ceremony and later friends and family come and celebrate at home

In the evening graduates go out and have fun with classmates and friends