Nurseries across the country said goodbye to children moving on to school next year.

Blue House Day Nursery in Croydon (top) and Little Acorns in Mirfield, West Yorkshire (bottom), held a graduation ceremony.
At Happy Child Nursery in Shepherd's Bush (top), the children performed a play to parents, while the class of 2013 at Footsteps Day Nursery in Farnborough, Hampshire (bottom), recited a poem.
A Step Ahead Nursery near Horsham, West Sussex, which had a long journey to its leavers' picnic, was kindly loaned a mode of transport and driver by their local bus company.