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Matric Farewell; Graduation Goodbye

Ideas for end of class school students

graduation cap and diploma

Calling all final year students leaving school!
Have you got a (matriculation) matric farewell coming up?
Have you had your graduation goodbye or are you about to organise a senior farewell?
This is the place where you can share ideas and be inspired - read on to help or be helped:



Suggestions for titles for the senior student graduating class?

Cheap but cool gift ideas to the graduating 12th class?

Matric farewell party ideas?

Indian school students please help!

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Ask or answer a School Student Farewell question, or contribute your idea


Farewell Question 3
"Can you suggest some cool nicknames for seniors in the graduate college farewell party?
There should be at least 15 different names according to people's personality type..."

Prateek from India

Some inspiration for senior's titles or nicknames, to sum up a person, can come from the following:

  • Movie titles
  • Mr Men or Little Miss characters from the children's books by Roger Hargreaves
  • Song titles
  • Use characters in the novels your year is studying
  • Sesame Street or Muppet Show characters
  • Cartoon characters
  • Comic book characters - e.g. listing what superpowers each person has
  • Describe the whole class as fruit salad, and nominate a different fruit per person and why. This is quite lovely because everyone is different yet contributes to the great taste of fruit salad!
Keep in mind that all titles should be positive and should be references to things everyone knows.

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final thought from school


Farewell Question 2
"I am a student of 11th class and need to know what my classmates can give to the graduating 12th class. Can you provide some cheap but cool gift ideas?"
Swapna from India

Given the current global economic climate, you could make a little 'survival' kit - like a little show-bag that has some instant soup, food vouchers, a map to a shelter, a poncho, a fishing line and hook, a budget planner, a credit card cutter and "common sense" (get creative with how you represent the latter).

You can have fun thinking what else is needed to 'survive' the world out there. This is a topical gift, and not every show-bag has to be the same.

Be clever and witty, but above all keep it clean, as you are representing yourselves in the gift-giving.

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old books


Farewell Question 1
"Could you please suggest an idea for organising a matric farewell?"
Vanessa from South Africa

Think of the matric farewell as a Commencement Ceremony, where the focus is on how the leaving students will look forward to the future.

The speech should include what they got out of the year at school, how they were inspired, and what they will take with them into the future.

The matric farewell party could have a futuristic theme, such as "Come as what you will be in 20 years".
Or you could conduct a survey on what everyone thinks will happen to everyone else, then organise a few backdrops and props and costumes of what people will be so they can dress up and have photos taken, as a fun activity. For example, a backdrop of a farm and a lassoo and chaps for someone who wants to be a cowboy. Or a Nobel prize and ministerial gowns etc.
These photos can be put together into an album as a souvenir afterwards.

If the send-off is at school, a simple and easy idea is to get some t-shirts and markers and have everybody wear them, signing each other's shirts. This is a fun way to say goodbye with best wishes.

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school kids crossing


School students from India! Help!
This website gets a lot of questions regarding certain graduation farewell customs - but the fond-farewell.com team doesn't understand or know what these customs are about! We would love to help, but need YOU to explain and share what the process is.

Please use the End of Year School Farewell Ideas below as a forum to answer the following:
  • what did last year's seniors do for seniors titles (and is the answer to question 3 above on the right track?
  • what were last year's questions to ask the seniors (and what is this about? when or why does this happen?)
  • how are the farewell games conducted if there are any? What were the games last year?
  • concepts for farewell programmes - is this a farewell theme?
  • why and when are students called to the stage?
Don't be shy, share your class experience with the world!

Of course, anybody from anywhere in the world is free to share their college goodbye experience, or to ask a question, so please contribute to...

End of Year School Farewell Ideas

Leaving school is a big moment in your life - it's very emotional and you want to make sure you do a good job at the farewell, especially in front of everyone at assembly!

So do you have a question to ask or ideas to share?

Or what did you do for your school farewell?

Please remember to represent yourself and your school well - use proper spelling and grammar!

A few words on what you are writing about:

Thoughts from Other Students

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