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2020 Academic Colours and Honours

March 10, 2020 at 4:13 PM

In recognition of our students who strive to achieve at the highest academic levels, Saint Kentigern College awards Academic Colours and Honours.  At a special assembly held in their honour today, students who had achieved at the highest level were recognised for their achievement in last year’s external examinations.

The standard set to gain Academic Awards is high and intended to motivate our top academic students to achieve at the highest levels of excellence. The students who are awarded Colours receive a special breast pocket to wear with pride on their blazer and were proud to receive these at today’s assembly with their parents present.

New Principal of the College, Mr Russell Brooke addressed the students and their parents saying, ‘Academic achievement in today’s world is not about regurgitating facts. Examiners are skilled in creating papers which challenge students to take their knowledge and apply it. Some might say they ‘synthesise’ their knowledge and are able to use that learning for a new application. It is through this synthesis that we, as humans, can cause creativity.

‘We know that Artificial Intelligence will learn facts better than us, will remember facts better than us, will be able to access vast amounts of information in split seconds and apply priority algorithms to that information. But to be truly creative remains a human domain.

‘Why is this important to you? Because it allows you to contribute. To be part of shaping our world and worlds to come.

‘What will you contribute?

That is the exciting aspect isn’t it. To look forward and wonder where your journey will take you. Each and everyone one of us has a duty to pursue learning to the best of our ability. It is simply a matter of attitude and application.’

This morning, the top achieving students in last year’s NCEA Level 1 (Year 12 this year), NCEA Level 2 (Year 13 this year), the IB Diploma, Cambridge and those students who gained NZQA Scholarships as a Year 11 or 12 last year, were all recognised, before joining their parents for a shared morning tea.

 

SENIOR COLLEGE ACADEMIC COLOURS AND HONOURS

 

NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement)

The table below shows the standards required for Colours or Honours in each of our Senior College year groups who study NCEA.

NCEA (NATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT)

 

ACADEMIC COLOURS

ACADEMIC HONOURS

Year 12

Overall GPA of 95+ percentage

Overall GPA of 90+ percentage

Year 13

Overall GPA of 90+ percentage

Overall GPA of 85+ percentage



YEAR 13 NCEA ACADEMIC COLOURS

Yuchen (Betty) Zhou

Connor Stevens

Owen Chen

Vishakhan Bhakhavan

Jasmine Huang

Michael Bebelman

Joseph Chan

Grace Hou

Victoria Stewart

Nicholas Stirling

Morgan Roberts

Lulu Denholm

Samuel Ou

Charlotte McDonald

Amelia Rose

Ling-Hui (Ling) Kong

Christopher Manning

Claudia Beere

Catherine Chang

Sean Daly

James Holmden

Sophia Ying

Nuo (Yvonne) Jin

Hannah Parkman

Bridget Ivory

Campbell Jordan

Jasmin Manning

 

YEAR 13 NCEA ACADEMIC HONOURS

Hugo Du Temple

Helena Danesh-Clough

Ivan Zhang

Nicola Stewart

Xingjian (Aaron) Sun

Guy Weenink

Holly Simmons

Lisa Schulze-Bergkamen

Dylan Muggleston

Christie Martel

Simon Sung

Lulu Edgar

Sofia Shing

Matthew Wai

Samuel Chan

Luke Creemers

Jessica Bardo

Boyang (Charlie) Gu

Hannah Monaghan

Athena Bond

Oliver Mitchell

Olivia Powell

Joshua Plummer

Mei Han (Arabella) Sun

Scarlett Jacques


 

YEAR 12 NCEA ACADEMIC COLOURS

Nathaniel Bailey

Nathan Xu

Matthew Chandler

Cameron Dean

Michelle Guan

Isabeau Pan

Zara Jancys

Emma Jorgensen

Alicia Lynn

Sarina Wang

Lucia King

Danielle Mayer

Christina Chen

Anya Prakash

Daniel Huang

Hannah Riley

Haokun (Kevin) He

Ethan Po

Louis King

Kaia Olsen

Andrew Sun

Sophie (ZiYing) Zhang

 

YEAR 12 NCEA ACADEMIC HONOURS

Blake Walker

Guo Yu

J'adore Harris-Tavita

Hayley Adams

Luka Borland-Lye

Samuel Everitt

Harrison Lowe

Evan Metcalfe

Chloe Beeche

Sijie (Cindy) Huang

Jude Beullens

Ming Han (Hank) Huang

Thomas King

Christine Gao

Nathaniel South

Maria Pavlenko

Anna Finlayson

Amelia Eaton

Tayla Craigen

John Hayes

Samiya Patel

Matthew Larsen

Zack Levy

Rachel Black

Harjot Dharni

Weiling Li

Emma Halliday

Samuel Gunn

Charlotte Symons


INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA

The table below shows the standards required for Colours or Honours in each of our Senior School year groups who study for the International Baccalaureate Diploma.

 

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA AWARDS

 

Academic Colours

Academic Honours

Year 12

38+ points

36+ points

Year 13

38+ points

36+ points

 

 

YEAR 13 IB ACADEMIC COLOURS

Heeju Rho

 

Grace Chang

 

Cynthia Gu

 

Xavier Yin

 

Tony Yu

 

Josie Lu

 

Catherine Song

 

Celina Tsui

 

 

YEAR 13 IB ACADEMIC HONOURS

Fin Wong

James Batten

Harrison Orr

 

NZQA 2019 SCHOLARSHIPS

The following students gained NZQA Scholarships as Year 11 (now Year 12) or Year 12 (now Year 13) students. Scholarship exams are more usually undertaken by students in Year 13.

Kevin He

Calculus

Lisa Schulze-Bergkamen

Chemistry

Winnie Liang (Year 11)

Outstanding in Chinese

Greer Webber

Drama

Christie Martel

Drama

Charlotte McDonald

Drama

Tony Yu

Economics

Elizabeth Batten

English

Dylan Muggleston

English

Josie Lu

History

Connor Stevens

Statistics

Joseph Chan

Outstanding in Physics

Xavier Yin

Outstanding in Calculus

Scholarship in English

Heeju Rho

Outstanding in English

Scholarship in Biology   Scholarship in Calculus

Grace Chang

Calculus,

Economics,

English, Statistics

 

 

 

 

 

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