The Steinbach Christian School will bid farewell to 41 graduating students Sunday afternoon. 

Carly Peters will represent her class at convocation as valedictorian. Her father is a teacher at the school, so she says she has had a life long connection to the SCS and became a student herself in grade five. She says her classmates have grown a lot since middle school and have really turned into a positive bunch.

"There are a lot of different personalities and I think that helps to make us an interesting group to hang out with but overall I would say positivity because while everyone has their own struggles and their own differences I think we do a lot of lifting each other up and lift the undergrads. I think we have a lot to offer to the rest of the world when we graduate."

Peters says all of her classmates have learned many great lessons at the SCS and even though they are excited to be done with high school and move on, she encourages her fellow grads to remember what the SCS has all done for them.

Principal Emery Plett says there are a number of things that really define the grad class this year.

"They are an athletic group, they have had a lot of success this year in particular, finishing third in both volleyball and basketball provincials this year which is a first for us having two sports doing that well. They are an artistic group and that we saw in the displays that were up in the Steinbach Arts Council and this is also an academic group."

Plett says a number of students have been awarded a variety of scholarships for the next few years.

Peters says many of her classmates expect to go into bible programs such as the School of Ministers or Ywam while others plan to dive right into university or enter the workforce.

The graduation ceremony will take place at 3 P.M. on Sunday at the Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church.