The glorious gardens on a summer evening at Hilltop Country House Hotel provided a perfect backdrop for King's School Macclesfield school leavers to sign off in style.
The end of year dinner dance for departing A Level students is always a bitter sweet occasion as friends prepare to go their separate ways while looking forward to a wonderful new life at university.
The young men and women mixed with teachers and staff and remembered the good, the bad and the not be mentioned moments from their school lives.
King's Headmaster Dr. Simon Hyde said: "These young people have their lives ahead of them and epitomise a sense of adventure and optimism. It's been an immense pleasure to work with them all over their school careers."