Annual Scholars’ Assembly
Posted on March 13, 2018
The annual Scholars’ Assembly was held at Macleans College on Friday.
The assembly recognised students who had achieved at the highest level in the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), the Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority Scholarship Examinations for 2017.
In the 2017 Scholarship examinations students four students gained Outstanding Scholarship Awards and two students achieved Premier Scholarship Awards. There were 167 individual Scholarships gained, including 23 at Outstanding level and two students achieved Top in Subject.
Six students gained High Achievement, 11 achieved Top in New Zealand and 12 gained Top in the World awards at CIE.
The Head Prefects with their parents were introduced to the assembly.
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NCEA 2017 Outstanding Performance
NCEA Year 11 Top Achiever Award 2017
Students who achieved Level 1 Endorsed with Merit (with a minimum of 25 credits at Excellence level)
Josh Andersen
Michelle Bosman
Patrick Boyle
Janith Fernando
Colanah Figgins
Amanda Garton
Galreenna Hansra
Justin Zhuoyan Hu
Christine Kinoti
Penelope Kunzler
Kelly Hui Liang
Jasmine Su Yi Luei
Sanurag Maini
Anya Marais
Logan Martlew
Rachel Li Li Ng
Kahn Nicholson
Kimberly Permessur
Robin Reps
Aleena Sharp
Abbey Sinclair
Claire Sit
Lily Smith
Georgia Stringer
Lisa Yue Wan
Georgia Lan Wang
Vince Zou
Students who achieved Level 1 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)
Hayatt Al Joborry
Bennett Childs
Eunjin Choi
Krystal Clark
Tim Tuhan Gong
Amy Guthrie
Renee Hosking
Ferrari Tzu-Shou Huang
Xixi Lin
Angela An Yu Liu
Henry Lockhart
Nicole Obviar
Grace Hyunjeong Park
Terina Parsons-Schmidt
Anna Schwerzel
Alexandra Smith
Anna Talbot
Kaylia Wilshire
Caroline Wright
NCEA Year 12 Top Achiever Award 2017
Students who achieved Level 2 Endorsed with Merit (with a minimum of 25 credits at Excellence level)
Nathan Bevan
Nataylia Butler
Jennifer Xinyi Chen
Maddox Drew
Zahra Fenn
Jessy-Leigh Harvett
Piper Hewitt
Jessie Houston
Carina Zhiyan Huang
Thomas Hughson
Mariska Jonker
Kushal Kapoor
Jessica Ledgerwood
Jason Siyang Li
Leia Linford
Brandan Misa
Ella Morris
Chris Preece
Tori Rogers
Alex Stewart
Limal Thrikawalgoda
Diana Todorova
Sanaaya Wadia
Lexin Wang
Emily Webber
Jessica Woods
Students who achieved Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)
Michelle Abraham
Lauren Adamson
Woytek Cierpisz
Helen Huan Ding
Jake Edwards-Ingle
Cassidy Fox
George Furniss
Linette Gerber
Nivarni Gounder
Surbhi Gupta
Thomas Harms
Mia Kelly
Hannah Le Grange
Danielle Reynolds
Anna Rowland
John Sibanda
Amy Skidmore
NCEA Year 13 Top Achiever Award 2017
Students who achieved Level 3 Endorsed with Merit (with a minimum of 25 credits at Excellence level)
Matthew Beeson
Sam Benson
Siobhan Bishop
Amelia Copeland
Bronte Croad
Charlie Drew
Mannat Dua
Ben Fisher
Jayden Fleming
Emma Fromont
Sally See Chai Fu
Emily Gillion
Monica Hopman
Jack Hosking
Riya Kalra
Edmond Liu
Paul Xiaopeng Luo
Tennyson Moore
Daniel Pickles
Nadine Samaraie
Aakriti Singh
Charlotte Smaill
Sabrina Snoad
Kayla Steele
Emma Stevenson
Charlie Stringer
Esther Xing Er Sun
Grace Yi-Hsuan Tan
Monika Todorova
Lauren Walters-Puttick
Gabriel Yu-Vin Weon
Georgia Wilshire
Rain Wenjing Xie
Darren Yu
Kenneth Siming Zhang
Students who achieved Level 3 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)
Libby Christophers
Paige Cordingley
Esme Du Plessis
Sarah Hillier
Sabrina Juan
Alice Millar
Anushka Rajapakse
Florencia Restivo
Briahna Rew
Bob Minghao Yan
Emily (Ziwei) Yang
Cecilia Yufan Zhang
Derrick Weitao Zhu
CIE 2017 Outstanding Performance - CIE Top Achiever Award 2017
Year 10 Students who achieved 4 A* Grades in 4 subjects at IGCSE
Cameron Khoo
Ranudi Lelwala
Louise Xu
Joy Yang
Rhi Ann Yong
Janet Yu
Jasmine Zhang
Students who achieved either an A or A* Grade in 5 subjects or above at IGCSE
Jade Burnett
Jason Chan
Michelle Delves
Samridhi Gupta
Tiffany Ho
Merianne Jayaweera
Karishma Khambatta
Sally Kim
Youn-Joo Kim
Liya Lai
Anita Olmstead
Leo Strode-Penny
Rena Yun
Students who achieved an A* Grade in 5 subjects or above at IGCSE
Amn Waqar
Students who achieved an A Grade in 5 subjects or more at IGCSE and AS Level
Kevin Cham
Matthew Colclough
Davis Fong
Jessica Gu
Kevin Guan
Richard Jiang
Khushi Kohli
Isabel Li
Rachel Li
Wendy Wenxuan Liu
Sara Moazzam
Eva Mountfort
Seo Yeon Nam
Raunak Shah
Kay Tang
Rayman Tang
Louisa Wang
Zi Lin Wang
Donovan Wu
Hayley Xie
Kathryn Zhou
Joshua Zhu
Students who achieved an A Grade in 5 subjects or more at AS and A Level
Vincent He
Matthew Yang
Jackie Zhang
Students who achieved a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level
Ash Dravid
Mrday Ramesh
Goyum Siriwardane
Angus Stewart
Nicholas Ye
Students who achieved an A Grade in 4 subjects at A Level
Ricky Wang
Judd Zhan
NZQA Scholarship 2017 - Outstanding Subject Scholarship
Students who gained Outstanding in a Scholarship Subject
William Han
Outstanding Scholarship Subject in Calculus and CIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 5 A or A* Grades at IGCSE, AS and A Level
Jessica Kwong
Outstanding Scholarship Subject - First in subject - Japanese
Gordon Liu
Outstanding Scholarship Subject in English
Tianyu Pan
Outstanding Scholarship Subject in Statistics
Jonathan Eeway Shaw
Outstanding Scholarship Subject in English and CIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level
Richard Tang
Outstanding Scholarship Subject in Statistics
Ansel Jun Ming Wong
Outstanding Scholarship Subject in Economics
NZQA Scholarship 2017 - Scholarship Award
Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects
$2,000 each year for up to three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.
Song Kang
Scholarship in English, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and Calculus and CIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level
Edward Liu
Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and Calculus
Jason Liu
Scholarship in Statistics, Calculus and Classical Studies
Sashi Peiris
Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and Calculus and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A* Grade in 4 subjects at A Level
Sai Harshitha Penneru
Scholarship in Biology, Chemistry and Calculus and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A or A* Grade in 5 or more subjects at AS and A Level
Andrew Power
Outstanding Scholarship in Statistics and Scholarship in Physics and Calculus
Yitong Tommy Shi
Outstanding Scholarship in Statistics and Scholarship in Chinese and Calculus
Young Shin
Scholarship in Chemistry, Statistics and Calculus
Justin Hong Jie Tan
Scholarship in Chemistry, Statistics and Calculus and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A or A* Grade in 4 or more subjects at A Level
Elinor Wang
Outstanding Scholarship in Statistics, and Scholarship in Spanish, Biology and Chemistry
Haotian Wang
Scholarship in English, Statistics, Media Studies and Economics
Katrina Zhang
Scholarship in English, Chemistry, Statistics, History and Classical Studies
Karl Zhu
Scholarship in Physics, Statistics and Calculus
CIE Top Achievement Award 2017
Students who placed First in New Zealand in CIE in 2017 in subjects where there were less than 50 candidates entered nationally
Tony Chen
CIE High Achievement Award – AS and A Level Music
Kevin Shen
CIE High Achievement Award – AS Japanese Language
Owen Wang
CIE High Achievement Award - AS Literature in English and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A* Grade in 4 subjects at A Level and NZQA Scholarship - Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics and Statistics
Junyi Chen
CIE High Achievement Award – A Level Physics
CIE Top in New Zealand 2017
Students who placed First in New Zealand in CIE in 2017
Boa Kim
Top in New Zealand - IGCSE Literature (English) and CIE Top Achiever Award with Year 10 - 4 A* Grades out of 4 at IGCSE
Elizabeth Li Ying Koh
Top in New Zealand - IGCSE Chemistry and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A Grade in 5 subjects or more at IGCSE and AS
Nicholas Yao
Top in New Zealand - IGCSE Computer Science
Ying Gao
Top in New Zealand - AS Accounting, and Design & Technology
Ruisi Rachel Li
Top in New Zealand - AS English Language
Winnie Zhang
Top in New Zealand - AS Economics
Yuxuan Joyce Guo
Top in New Zealand - A Level Mathematics and NZQA Scholarship Award 2017 Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and Calculus
CIE Top in the World 2017
Students who placed First in the World in CIE in 2017
Grace Madison Baylis
Top in the World - IGCSE Design & Technology and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A Grade in 5 subjects or more at IGCSE and AS
Jingyang Justin Chen
Top in the World - IGCSE Foreign Language Mandarin Chinese
Timothy Kit Sing Lim
Top in the World - IGCSE Drama
Xinyi Angela Yang
Top in the World - IGCSE Combined Science and Top in New Zealand - IGCSE Mathematics
Biyuan Chen
Top in the World - AS Mathematics 1st= and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A Grade in 5 subjects or more at IGCSE and AS
Rishika Choudhry
Top in the World - AS Literature in English 1st= and Top in New Zealand - AS Biology
Kevin Yu Chen Hou
Top in the World - AS Mathematics 1st= and CIE Top Achiever Award with an A Grade in 5 subjects or more at IGCSE and AS
Wenning Wendy Jiang
Top in the World - AS Mathematics 1st=
Aijie Angela Zhang
Top in the World - AS Literature in English 1st=
Jia Hui Mary Wei
Top in the World - A Level Art & Design and NZQA Outstanding Scholarship in Painting
Meixian Claire Yang
Top in the World - A Level Chinese
NZQA Outstanding Scholar Award 2017
For candidates placed in the top 20-40. The minimum requirement to be considered for this award is three Scholarships with at least two at “Outstanding” level, or more than three Scholarships with at least one at “Outstanding”. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award. $5,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.
Joyce Sum Yuet Chan
Outstanding Scholarship in English and Biology, and Scholarship in Statistics and CIE Top Achiever Award with a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level
Allen Hui
Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry and Calculus, and Scholarship in English and Statistics and CIE Top Achiever Award 2017 with an A* Grade in 4 subjects at A Level
Yang Fan Yun
Outstanding Scholarship in Economics and Scholarship in English, Statistics, Calculus, Geography and Physical Education and CIE Top Achiever Award 2017, High Achievement Award AS Business and an A* Grade in 4 subjects at A Level
Zhizhou Alan Zhang
Outstanding Scholarship in Classical Studies, and Scholarship in English, Chemistry, Physics, Calculus and History<br>and<br>CIE Top Achiever Award with an A or A* Grade in 4 or more subjects at A Level
NZQA Premier Scholar Award 2017
Premier Scholarships are awarded to the very top 5 to 10 candidates in New Zealand. The minimum requirement to be considered for this award is at least three Scholarships at “Outstanding” Level. The number of recipients for this award is restricted and achieving the minimum requirement will not guarantee an award.
Premier Scholars receive $10,000 each year for three years as long as they maintain at least a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.
Janice Ho
Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics, Calculus and Scholarship in Earth and Space Science, Statistics and Geography, and CIE Top Achiever Award. Top in New Zealand - AS Geography
Ben Zhang
Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry (First in Subject), Physics, Calculus, and Scholarship in English, Biology, Statistics, Media Studies, Geography, History and Physical Education, and CIE Top In the World – A Level Biology
Proxime Accessit (Runner up to the Dux) 2017
The Proxime Accessit prize is worth $500 and is awarded to the student who achieved the second highest grades at Macleans College in the annual NZQA Scholarship examinations.
For 2017, this award is presented to Janice Ho.
Dux of Macleans College 2017
The Dux prize for 2017 is awarded to the Macleans student who achieved the highest grades in the annual NZQA Scholarship examinations.
The Dux of Macleans College receives the Allen McDonald Scholarship. This scholarship was established by the Macleans College Parent Teacher Association in recognition of the contribution of Allen McDonald, the second Principal of Macleans College, particularly with regard to the school’s scholastic achievement. The scholarship is worth $1,000.00.
The Macleans College Dux of 2017 and recipient of the Allen McDonald Scholarship is awarded to Ben Zhang.