JPII to honour grads with virtual ceremony this month
June 28-29 will be graduation day at John Paul II Collegiate (JPII), though much like last year, the 2021 grad festivities will be held with a twist this spring.
The local high school’s graduation ceremony will be put together in individual pieces then stitched together virtually due to the inability to host a large graduation ceremony due to the pandemic.
Each of the graduates will have an allotted time where they will be invited to the gymnasium (along with their cohort of family and close friends) to be filmed walking across the stage in cap-and-gown to receive their diploma and any awards/scholarships they may have won.
Graduates will then have an opportunity to take pictures with family and friends around the school and outdoors area. Each of the individual ceremonies will then be pieced together into one large production that will be posted on the school website, and on Edsby, for students and their families to view.