Children graduate from Sunshine Daisy Nursery (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Children graduate from Sunshine Daisy Nursery

11:12am Wednesday 19th September 2012 in Local By Emily Roberts, Chief Reporter

Buy this photo » From left: Four-year-olds Isabel Gardner, Abigail MacDonald, Sean McDonald, Charlie McKenzie, Alexander Richards, Django George, Mathilda Duckworth, and Jude Kelliher

IT was a big day in the lives of these four-year-old children as they graduated from their nursery school.

The nine youngsters, from Sunshine Daisy Nursery, in Andwell, said goodbye to staff at the nursery where they have spent the last few years, ready to move on to primary or infant schools. Parents were invited to watch their children perform in The Three Little Pigs before enjoying a cream tea made by the nursery pupils.

Each of the graduating children was then invited to stand up in a gown, holding a scroll, and present their parents with a daisy before being given a book as a gift from the nursery in the parting ceremony.

Claudia Padfield, manager at the nursery, said: “It went really well. They were really excited and it was nice because all the parents had afternoon tea with their children on the lawn, and the children saw it as a party.”