Top Student Successes - November 2024

Congratulations to our students for their outstanding successes across sports, cultural and academic areas.

Academic

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS:

77 awarded

ICAS:

3 Medals – Year 13 Mathematics and Science,

and Year 8 English

INFOMATICS:

2 students European Girls’ Olympiad NZ team

BIOLOGY:

NZ International Biology Olympiad – Bronze award

ETHICS:

5 students NZ International Ethics Olympiad finalists

CHEMISTRY:

Year 11 Ara Chemistry Team Competition Winners

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING:

Year 8 team – Third in the World

Individual Junior Division – First in New Zealand

CREATIVE WRITING:

National Schools Poetry Award Winner and Runner Up

DECATHLON:

Year 8 NZ da Vinci Competition Winners

MATHEMATICS:

Year 8 Cantamath Winners

Year 9 and Year 10 Cantamath Runners Up

American Maths Olympiad Runner Up

SPEECH:

Ngā Manu Kōrero: Senior Māori Impromptu – Third

CHESS:

Canterbury Schools: Secondary Runner Up

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES:

2 Recipients

Culture

CHAMBER MUSIC:

Original Composition Overall Winner NZCT Contest

ORCHESTRA:

7 students NZSS Symphony Orchestra

PIPE BAND:

New Zealand National Champions in Juvenile

U21 Solo Piping Champion

NZ Young Piper of the Year

5 students National Youth Pipe Band

ROCK BAND:

National Finalist Battle of the Bands,

and Best Guitarist and Top 3 Drummer

Rockquest Best Song

JAZZ BAND:

Big Band Southern Jam & Aurora Festival Gold awards

Best Bassist Southern Jam and Aurora Festival

Best Drummer Aurora Festival

SONGWRITING:

Finalist Play it Strange Competition

Finalist Peace Song Competition

BALLET:

5 NZAMD Ballet Distinctions and Scholarships

2 National Ballet Award Finalists and Winner

Younger Performer of the Year – Semi finalist

DEBATING:

Junior and Senior Regional Winners CSS

HIGHLAND DANCE:

Winner New Zealand Championships Sean Truibhas

and Reel O’Tulloch 18 Years and Over

Winner New Zealand Championship Irish Reel

and Highland Fling U16

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S HILLARY AWARD:

23 Gold awards

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES:

15 Recipients

Sport

ROWING:

Girls 16 8+ Gold NZSS, Boys U16 4+ Gold NZSS

Boys U18 4+ Silver NZSS

SISS Championships – 5 Gold, 3 Bronze

FUTSAL:

Senior A Girls Winners NZSS

BASKETBALL:

Girls Senior A Runner Up NZSS

Girls Senior A and Junior Girls Winners NZSS Zone 4

Girls Senior 3x3 Winners NZSS Zone 4

FOOTBALL:

Girls’ 1st XI Third NZSS, Winner CSS

FLAG FOOTBALL:

U12 New Zealand Champions

NETBALL:

Senior A Fourth SISS

Senior A Top 12 NZSS

Year 9A Runners Up SISS Junior Tournament

VOLLEYBALL:

Senior A Girls Third NZSS

TOUCH:

Mixed Team Winner NZSS (Dec 2023) and Winner SISS

TENNIS:

Senior Mixed Tennis Runners Up NZSS

Senior A Girls Winners & Senior A Boys Runners Up SISS

ATHLETICS:

NZSS Championships – 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze (Dec 2023)

SISS Championships – 4 Gold, 7 Silver, 5 Bronze

TRAP SHOOTING:

Open Handicap Champion NZCTS

NZ Kilwell Postal Shoot Team Winner

High Overall Single Rise NZSS

TRIATHLON:

U16 Girls Winner NZSS and SISS

U16 Boys Winner SISS

ADVENTURE RACING:

Senior Mixed Team Runners Up SISS

RUGBY SEVENS:

U16 Boys Winners SISS

SKIING:

Winner CSS Mixed Team

Individual Fastest Boy & Boys’ Ski Team Runners Up SISS

Winner ISSA Primary & Intermediate Co-ed Teams

ROAD RACE:

Girls U16, U16 Boys team Runners Up CSS

SWIMMING:

CSS Championships 14 podium finishes

CROSS COUNTRY:

U16 Girls Winner SISS

Junior Girls and U16 Boys team Winners

CANOE POLO:

Junior and Senior Winners SISS

ZONTA AWARDS:

Highly Commended Boys Category 2 – Football Referee

Highly Commended Boys Category 4 – Jet Ski Racing

Highly Commended Girls Category 5 – Girls’ Senior A Futsal

Highly Commended Category 6 – Athletics, Basketball,

Rugby, Touch Rugby

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES:

21 Recipients

College Productions

The Nutcracker (Ballet Academy)

The Aurora Stone (Preparatory)

Once Upon A Mattress (Middle)

Legally Blonde (Senior)

Outstanding Cultural Celebrations

Music Festival // Film Fest // Dance Revue // Pipe Band StAC Attack