Scholars' Assembly 2022

Posted on March 11, 2022

The annual Scholars’ Assembly was held at Macleans College on Wednesday 9 March.

The assembly recognised students who had achieved at the highest level in the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), the Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE) and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) Scholarship Examinations for 2021.

In the 2021 Scholarship examinations one student achieved a Premier Scholar Award, and four students achieved an Outstanding Scholar Award. There were 129 individual Scholarships gained, including 14 at Outstanding level and one student achieved Top in Subject.

Two students gained High Achievement in the Cambridge Assessment International Examinations.

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MCert 2021 Outstanding Performance

Year 11 MCert Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved 4 or more A Grades in MCert or MCert and AS or Level 2

Minuki Anthony
Aditya Bisht
Eve Boermans
Abbey Bolton
Dakota Burns
Zoe Chambers
Lara Clarke
Dominic Craig
Nathaniel Craig
Alice Deng
Eric Deng
Anna Dupper
Dhruv Erinjery
Wayne Gao
Nicholas Garcia-Scholtz

Angel Huang
Mandy Jing
Jasmeet Kalsi
Diya Kaushal
Lily Kim
Jai Kumar
Cathy Lang
Hannah Lau
Sally Lee
Joshua Leevers
Sue Li
Bianca Lim
Jenna Liu
Melody Mai
Anas Mansour

Binuri Marasinghe
Vanessa Matare
Diya Mehta
Matthew Middlebrook
Linda Na
Hayley Newington
Niccolo Nustrini
Guntaas Oberoi
Clarissa Oblefias
Miandi Oosthuizen
Caelyn Pak
Josh Radford
Anna Sandhu
Ish Sandhu

Jerry Sun
Elisha Tadamalla
Penny Tang
Daniel Taylor
Jeremy Wang
Paige Wiener
Grace Wilkinson
Shawn Woo
Anna Xiong
Oscar Yan
Stanley Yao
Tiffany Yin
Lilian Zhang
Jeslyn Zou

NCEA 2021 Outstanding Performance

NCEA Year 12 Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)

Nathan Anderson
Laura Banks
Amy Brealey
Josh Buddhdev
Francisca Carlos
Alexa Carter
Jasraj Chadha
Juliana Chavez
James Chen
Li Hong Chen
Alvin Cheng
Abbey Dunkerley
Jade Firth
James Goodall
Shanae Ho
Corina Huang
Livleen Kaur

Samantha Keane
Lauren Khoo
Nayoung Ko
Angelina Kung
Chanel Lai
Blake Larcombe
Olivia Lee
Samuel Lewis
Jessica Li
Janice Liu
Elsa Ly
Skyla MacDonald
Georgia Mackey
Miguel Marcelo
Emily Marchl
Logan Marshall
Lucas Mitchell

Alexandra Moore
Liliana Mountfort
Thomas Muggleston
Zara Nicholson
Tim Ouyang
Sahil Padayachie
Katie Pan
Grace Pickering
Caitlyn Pokorny
Emily Mae Ready
Alexandra Rikys
Adya Roop
Jordan Rowe
Marieke Rozema
Maddison Sangster
Rico Spiller

Rebecca Stewart
Sophia Su
Andy Tang
Aimee Thompson
Nicholas Tweedale
Arabella Van Der Maas
Kathy Wang
Kayla Winiata
Iris Wong
Michaela Wu
Nancy Wu
Caitlyn Yang
Harry Yang
Rachel Yu
Lucy Zhao
Camellia Zhou

NCEA Year 13 Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved Level 3 Endorsed with Excellence (with a minimum of 50 credits at Excellence level)

Zubair Ali
Breanne Attwood
Emma Barclay
Madeleine Bremner
Tate Cao
Tori Dao
Katya Davidson
Sarah Dunn
Dinithi Ediriwickrama
Lauren Goody
Morgan Gray
Sophie Hansen

Micah Hasselbach
Milla Hasselbach
Caitlin Hayward
Zanel Herrewyn
Charity Ho
Maia Hosking
Sophie Joyce-Maggs
Bronte King
Ruby Matthews
Bianca McFadden
Danika Money
Jordan O'Brien

Danielle O'Neill
Bobbi Passau
Elizabeth Pham
Fiona Qi
Jean Qian
Summer Qian
Marianne Reynecke
Gemma Richards
Emily Rush
Aadi Singh
Anish Singla

Thom Stranaghan
Elisha Stuart
Brian Sun
Simran Takhar
Lana Taylor
Tamika Te Young
Alex Tomov
Lyla Van Rooy
Mia Vanderhoven
Neda Weng
Amelia Windle

CAIE 2021 Outstanding Performance

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2021

Year 11 students who achieved 2 or 3 A Grades at AS

Dante Anderson
Ryan Dukeson
Henry Gao
Allan Han

Gina Kim
Eric Lee
Olivia Lin
Alex Ly

Alan Niu
Claire Park
Hana Rose
Melinda Shao

Shafquat Tabeeb
Lara Teodorescu
Sophia Xu
Joshua Yee

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved an A Grade in 4 or more at AS and A Level

Allan Dong
Jessica Hong
Benson Jin
Odilia Lai
Chloe Lee

Annie Li
Charles Li
Sophia Liu
Sourav Prasad
Shivani Samanthula

Paramprit Manjit Singh
Zohaib Syed
Ibrahim Waheed
Iris Wu

Tiffany Yan
James Yun
Vicki Zhang
Hillary Zhong

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved a minimum of 2 A* Grades at A Level

Nancy Chen
Ian Chou
David De Vaal
Nada Elebiary
Anthony Feng
Jianing Guo
Elliot Inns
Lokesh Kumar

Alvari Kupari
Picus Lam
Harry Liang
Kieran Lim
Isaac Liu
Stephen Liu
Eric Ma
Oshan Premkumar

Lisa Sandbrook
Arjun Singh
Dan Tan
Cleo Tang
Hoanh Tong-Ho
Milton Wu
Daniel Yang

Paul Yao
Simon Ye
Sarujan Yogeswaran
Regina Yun
Lorna Zhang
Melissa Zhang
Samuel Zheng

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved an A Grade in four or more subjects at A Level

Amanda Lee
Leo Liang

William Liu

Nancy Qiang

Juliana Yan

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who achieved an A* Grade in four or more subjects at A Level

Kevin Lin

Rick Wang

Cong Xia

CAIE Top Achiever Award 2021

Students who placed First in New Zealand in CAIE in 2021 in subjects where there were less than 50 candidates entered nationally (June 2021)

Lorna Zhang
High Achievement in AS Music

Nicholas Drummond
High Achievement in A Level Physics and A Level Computer Science

NZQA Scholarship 2021

Students who gained Outstanding in a Scholarship Subject

Bobbi Passau
Outstanding Scholarship in Photography

Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects.

Abhinav Chawla
Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry, Economics, Health and Physical Education, Physics and Statistics

Hannah Giles
Scholarship in Classical Studies, Economics, English, Health and Physical Education and Statistics

Even Guo
Scholarship in Accounting, Calculus and Physics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 5 A* Grades at A Level

Elijah Hayward
Scholarship in Accounting, Calculus, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 3 A* Grades at A Level

James Hui
Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry, Physics and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 5 A* Grades at A Level

Crystal Li
Scholarship in Calculus, Chinese and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Awards with 3 A* Grades and 1 A Grade at A Level

Alvis Ou
Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry and Physics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 4 A* Grades at A Level

Tony Su
Scholarship in Calculus, Economics, Geography and Statistics and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 2 A* Grades and 2 A Grades at A Level

Roger Yang
Scholarship in Health and Physical Education, Physics and Statistics

Students who gained Scholarship in three or more subjects, including an Outstanding

Marcus Ambler
Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus and Scholarship in Physics and Statistics

William Gao
Outstanding Scholarship in Physics and Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry and Statistics, and CAIE Top Achievers Awards with 3 A* Grades at A Level and High Achievement in AS Physics

Wei Tian Teo
Outstanding Scholarship in Religious Studies and Scholarship in English and Health and Physical Education, and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 3 A* Grades and an A Grade at A Level

Ellen Wang
Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus and Scholarship in English, Health and Physical Education, Physics and Statistics, and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 2 A* Grades and an A Grade at A Level

Ray Wang
Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus and Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics and Statistics, and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 4 A* Grades at A Level

NZQA Scholarship 2021 - Outstanding Subject Scholarship - Top in Subject

Students who gained Outstanding Subject Scholarship and placed Top in New Zealand

This award is worth $2,000 for three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.

Maggie Xian achieved Outstanding Scholarship (Top in Subject) for Design and Scholarship in Painting.

NZQA Outstanding Scholar Award 2021

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.

Judy Fong
Outstanding Scholarship in English and Scholarship in Classical Studies, History and Media Studies

Rick Han
Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus and Scholarship in Chemistry, Physics and Statistics

Annika Lee
Outstanding Scholarship in Geography and Scholarship in English, Health and Physical Education, History and Statistics, and CAIE Top Achievers Award with 3 A* Grades at A Level

Proxime Accessit (Runner Up to the Dux) 2021

This award is presented to Jessica-Hope Wei.

Jessica-Hope achieved an NZQA Outstanding Scholars Award in 2021. This Award is for candidates who placed in the top 20-40, in New Zealand. 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.

Students who achieve this Award receive a payment of $5,000 each year for three years as long as candidates maintain a ‘B’ grade average in tertiary study.

Jessica-Hope achieved Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry and Scholarship in Biology, English, Media Studies, Physics and Statistics. Jessica-Hope also achieved the following results:

2020 CAIE results

A Grade at AS level in English Language, Chemistry and Physics, and A* Grade at A Level in Biology and Mathematics.

2021 CAIE results

A* Grade at A Level in English Language, Chemistry and Physics

Extra-Curricular

International Olympiad at national level for Biology and Chemistry, Premier Symphony Orchestra, Senior Concert Band, Barbershop Girls’ Choir, Amnesty International, Big House Choir, Digital Leader, Hospitality Service Club, Mansfield House Prefect, News Committee and Scholarship Prefect.

Dux of Macleans College 2021

The Dux prize for 2021 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 2021 and recipient of the Allen McDonald Scholarship is awarded to Oliver Dai.

Oliver was awarded an NZQA Premier Scholarship in 2021. Premier Scholarships were awarded to the very top 12 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.

Oliver achieved Outstanding Scholarship in Calculus, Chemistry and Physics, and Scholarship in Geography, History, Religious Studies and Statistics. He also achieved the following results.

2020 CAIE results

An A* Grade at A Level in Literature in English, Physics and Mathematics and an A Grade at AS level in History and Chemistry

2021 CAIE results

An A* Grade at A Level in Further Mathematics and Chemistry and an A Grade in History

Extra-Curricular

Blood Bank Participant, Chess A, NZYPT 2021, Premier Chess, Scholarship Prefect, Snell Big House Choir, Snell House Prefect, Snell House Tutor, Table Tennis AKSS A Grade. Oliver also participated in the Olympiad Competition at national level in Mathematics and Physics.