Graduation 2024 Dinner and Dance Banquet
Date: Friday, June 14, 2024 6:00 - 11:00 pm
Location: Westin Bayshore, 1601 Bayshore Dr., Vancouver, BC V6G 2V4
School sanctioned event organized by staff and our student Grad Council.
Graduation Banquet
This event is for grads and is open to their family and guests. Tickets are $150 each and can be purchased through School Cash Online. Please note that this is a dry event for all guests (grads, parents and guests). There is no alcohol permitted prior to arrival or during this event and there are no in and out privileges or refunds for those not granted entry or asked to leave due to alcohol or substance use. As a school event, all Handsworth Code of Conduct expectations apply.
Banquet Ticket sales are open Monday, April 15, 2024 through Friday, May 10, 2024.
Banquet table arrangements are organized by Ms. Frith, here is the step by step process:
1. Families purchase tickets (School Cash Online). There is no limit as to many tickets each family purchases.
2. Graduates and family members decide who they will sit with:
a) Tables seat 8, 9, 10 guests. We can squeeze 11 people at a table that normally seats 10 people.
b) There are only 10 tables that seat 12 guests.
New! Grads: There is an update on the banquet tables for 12 people.
This year, due to overwhelming requests, we are going to assign the tables of 12 based on a lottery system.
Please pay online, then submit the form with all 12 names written out AND proof of payment directly to Ms. Frith, in person. Please do not leave papers on her desk. (Photocopies of screen shots of payment are acceptable).
You can submit the form with names and proof of payment anytime from now until Wednesday May 8 at 3pm.
Both items (12 names and proof of payment) are necessary to enter the lottery.
The lottery will take place on May 8 at 3:15pm and you will be notified shortly thereafter. This will give time to those who do not get a table to rearrange their group numbers so that they will fit at 2 tables of 10.
3. The graduate will then fill out a form with each person's first and last name sitting at their table.
Grad 2024 Guest names at tables.docx
a) Graduates sometimes choose to sit with their friends and their parents sit at a table nearby.
b) It is the graduate's responsibility to fill out a form that includes the adults that are with them.
4. Graduates and family members choose their top 5 choices for where they would like to sit in the banquet room.
5. Table configuration will take place on Tuesday, May 21 - Friday, May 24, at lunchtime in Room 2021
Grads: There is an update on the banquet tables for 12 people, please see point 2.
Tables will be assigned for PAID tickets only and with a list of the students/guests/parents sitting at the table. Tables are assigned on a first come, first served basis. Students will hand in their form for table arrangements and select their table position.
Ticket sales will close on Friday, May 10, 2024.
Any questions regarding the banquet can be directed to Ms. Frith at sfrith@sd44.ca.
