Celebrating graduation

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To the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance," played on piano by music teacher Jaclyn McKeever and student Ethan Barron, Cranbury School eighth-graders stepped past a barrage of flashing cameras and took their seats in the school's gym on Monday.

Above the soon-to-be-graduates stretched an arch of blue and silver balloons, and before them were parents, grandparents, siblings and friends, all murmuring anxiously.

"We will live on, but we won't forget this time in our lives, these people," said Student Council President Anne Bonazzi during her welcoming remarks.

The class performed three songs during the ceremony, all tied to the theme of "soaring higher."

The first of the three songs, "What a Wonderful World," was accompanied by a slideshow featuring pictures of the class and a recording of the song from when the students were younger. When the slideshow ended, the students performed the song one last time as a class.

Following Cranbury School tradition, the class finished the night with a performance of "We Must Say Goodbye."

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