A ball on the beach: Secondary school graduates mark the milestone on their own terms

"We said we might as well have our own graduation celebrations — this is the only chance we'll get"
A ball on the beach: Secondary school graduates mark the milestone on their own terms

You can never be overdressed or overeducated, according to Oscar Wilde — and one bunch of recent secondary school graduates seem to have taken that lesson to heart. 

They each have more than a dozen years' education clocked up as they finished secondary school, but due to Covid restrictions there can't be debs balls and formal graduation parties. So they decided to have their own 'grads ball' in the wild Atlantic air. 

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