Our students have been achieving highly in English. Here are the latest accolades:

ICAS SPELLING

ICAS Certificates are awarded as follows:

High Distinction – top 1% of NZ students

Distinction – next 10% of NZ students

Credit – next 25% of NZ students

Merit – next 10% of NZ students

Year 4

Distinction: Samuel La Hood, Bethan Mundy, Ryan Zhou

Credit: Ayala Cunningham, Jemima Hortop-Blair, Emmi Murray, Mariam Rietveld, Lachlan Russell, Hebe Song, Scarlet Wilson

Merit: Luke Wilson

Year 5

Distinction: Imogen Harrison, Jessica Mundy

Credit: Thandie Chiruka, Zoe Trotman, Eleanor Wong

Year 6

High Distinction: Clara Ballantyne, Jemimah McIlroy, Wei-Hun Loh, Sean Small

Credit: Gabriella Potter

Year 7

Distinction: Elloise Cameron, Aliya Drake, Charlotte Milne, Bridgette Sutton, Poppy Henderson

Credit: Sophie Davis, Sophia Hessian, Ella Hou, Yasmin Khan, Skyla Murray, Catherine Lund

Merit: Alex Giles, Mabel Lee, Laura Sammut

Year 8

Distinction: Sophie Bowmar, Hannah Cole, Grace Johnston, Vivienne Lau

Credit: Lucy Cowie, Maddie O’Neill, Sofia Reid, Charlotte Wollstein

Merit: Emma McDonald, Lily Ferro

ICAS WRITING

Year 4

Distinction: Jemima Hortop-Blair, Scarlett Wilson

Credit: Ryan Zhou, Bethan Mundy

Year 5

Credit: Charlotte Lethaby, Jessica Mundy, Eleanor Wong

Merit: Imogen Harrison, Zoe Trotman

Year 6

High Distinction: Clara Ballantyne, Wei-Hun Loh

Distinction: Ryan Dailey, Jemimah McIlroy

Credit: Gabriella Potter, Zara Pratley

Year 7

Distinction: Aliya Drake, Alex Giles, Bridgette Sutton

Credit: Elloise Cameron, Poppy Henderson, Sophia Hessian, Anise Maclean, Charlotte Milne

Merit: Sophie Davis, Ella Hou, Yasmin Khan, Skyla Murray

Year 8

Distinction: Sophie Bowmar, Hannah Cole, Maddie O’Neill, Sofia Reid

Credit: Rosie Davison, Grace Johnston, Jasmine Lobo Linwood, Eri Lovegrove, Tara Price, Alice Quill, Dina Samadi, Melissa Van der Haegen

KIWI ENGLISH RESULTS

This is a new competition in 2017, created by the University of Canterbury. Columba chose to use this competition instead of ICAS English this year, primarily because it is based on our NZ curriculum, rather than the Australian one.

Certificates were awarded as follows:

Distinction – top 1% of students sitting in NZ

Excellence – next 10%

Merit – next 20%

Achieved – next 25%

Primary English (Years 5 & 6)

Excellence: Thandie Chiruka, Imogen Harrison, Clara Balllantyne

Merit: Alyssa Duthie, Georgia Houghton, Charlotte Lethaby, Jessica Mundy, Zoe Trotman, Eleanor Wong, Caitlin Butson, Ryan Dailey, Grace Hill, Amelia Loudon, Jemimah McIlroy, Gabriella Potter, Zara Pratley, Mia Revell-Lynch, Sean Small, Loh Wei Hun

Intermediate English (Years 7 & 8)

Distinction: Charlotte Wollstein

Excellence: Elloise Cameron, Sophie Davis, Alexandra Giles, Poppy Henderson, Sophia Hessian, Yasmin Khan, Catherine Lund, Skyla Murray, Olivia Thorn, Sophie Bowmar, Hannah Cole, Lucy Cowie, Grace Johnston, Vivienne Lau, Maddie O’Neill, Tara Price

Merit: Bethan Hughes, Mabel Lee, Anise Maclean, Laura Sammut, Bridgette Sutton, Rosie Davison, Lily Ferro, Rosa Lines, Dina Samadi Ghouchani, Ella Hou

Secondary English (Years 9 & 10)

Excellence: Evie Ballantyne, Abbey Bowmar, Cara Busse, Lauren Buttery, Tessa Campbell, Emma Davis, Holly Friedlander, Chloe Heineke, Ruth Huang, Allison LeBuffe, Megan Macdiarmid, Imogene Maclean, Mia Robertson, Shannon Sealy, Georgia Wong

Merit: Sophie Baron, Celia Cannon, Laura Canton, Ella Chafer, Olivia Charles, Piper Charteris, Cindy Chou, Hannah Clarke, Rita Close, Isabelle Coe, Anaya Cole, Jessie Cowie, Antonia Edmonds, Olivia Ferris, Isobel Fraser, Lily Frewen, Angela Fu, Millie George, Lucy Goodeve, Brianna Horne, Mia Joseph, Phoebe Kirkwood, Joanna Liu, Caitlin O’Brien, Phoebe Ozanne, Emily Prout, Rebecca Rietweld, Lara Seaton, Isabella Su, Jordan Summers, Jody Syme, Millie O’Neill