More than 400 Foothills Composite & Alberta School of Fine Arts students walked across the stage Thursday symbolizing the next step in their lives at their graduation ceremony.

Principal Vince Hunter shook all students hands as they received their diplomas and says it's always an honour be a part of graduation.

"These kids have been working hard and have come to kind of an end of a phase in their life and now they're taking that next step which is live after high school," he says. "For some of them they've got a plan and ready to go and for a lot of them they're are looking with their eyes wide open and anticipating the next phase in what it's going to look like and bring to them."

Hunter says all that hard work from ECS to high school is going to pay off for students looking to achieve their life goals.

"These 12 years that they've spent in school have been about creating those strategies and the skills they need to be successful. So we want them to leave here extremely confident in who they are as people and ultimately we need them to go out and continue to be focused on what they can bring to their community and how we can build on our future."\

Hunter says it's been quite the three years since he first saw the students walk through the school's doors.


"They are tomorrow and we certainly count on them and I've seen some amazing things over the last three years with this group and I think of them in grade 10 as just sort young people getting ready to start to explore the world of high school to now where they're stepping out into life."

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