Monday 3rd March we celebrated the exceptional academic achievement of our students. Hillcrest High School has always been known to be a strong academic school, and we are so proud to see this tradition continue and be reflected in the achievements we acknowledged today.

Janet Guo Trophy

This trophy is awarded to the student who gained the most NZQA Scholarships. 

This year's recipient is Alexander Mathieson. 

Alexander was our 2024 Head Student and DUX. Alexander gained Scholarships in English, Earth and Space Science, Calculus and Accounting. He also received OUTSTANDING scholarship results for Chemistry, Statistics and Physics. Alexander was named New Zealand’s top scholar in Physics and is recognized as one of the country’s top scholars overall. He has been invited to a prestigious award ceremony at Government House.  

We were delighted to have Alexander’s father Trevor attend the assembly to receive this award on his behalf.

We then moved on to acknowledge our other OUTSTANDING Scholarship recipients. Almas Khan who was Year 13 in 2024 received Scholarships for Chemistry, Physics, Agriculture and Horticulture, Calculus and an Outstanding result for Statistics.

Antonia Wu received an Outstanding Scholarship for Statistics. This is an incredible achievement as she did this while in Year 12!  

Other Scholarship acknowledgements;

Elizabeth Chen who this year is going to Cornell University in the USA received a Scholarship in Statistics.

Kate Freeman received Scholarship for English.

Anna Graves received Scholarship for English.

Jennifer Guo received Scholarship in Chinese.

Flynn Saldanha received Scholarship in Religious Studies. 

Students who gained Scholarship as Year 12s!

Hector French gained a Scholarship last year as a Year 12 for Calculus.

Kris Yan gained a Scholarship last year as a Year 12 for Chinese.

And finally Ariel Wu gained a Scholarship last year as a Year 12 for Calculus AND Statistics.

That is 22 Scholarships gained across 11 students.

Congratulations to all Year 12 & 13 students in the list below that received NCEA Certificates endorsed with Excellence for the 2024 year.

Abel Niels

Evans Daisy

Collett Chris

Harford Lucas

Huang Caiman

Li Iris

Shi Joanna

Wu Raphael

Chandra Rea

Chen Yanfei

Gupta Suhani

Strawbridge Teaghin

McDaid Ava

Black James

Doake Samuel

Lal Aryan

Bowden Rose

Huggins Paul

Li Jason

McCrossan Elena

Fernando Sanidi

Defran Enzo Christiano

Feng Michelle

Tayyab Khadija

Das Shambhavi

Halapua Uheina

Ekanayake Mudiyanselage Ranuga

Kilari Bhavishya

Pettit Emma

Smith Arielle

Kathait Ankrita

Dixon Millie

Ward Maddie

Bremner Mila

Turner Casey

Moore Tegen

Barton Gina

Doran Poppy

Burgess Lexi

Ali Aymen

Parkinson Hannah

Chongcharoen Poon

Yan Kris

Kensington Neve

Hu Arthur

Li Eva

Zhang Anna

Lu Lucy

Taylor Makayla

Wu Antonia

Brake Claudia

Chang Priscilla

Cui Tonia

Barclay Victoria

Waters Annabelle

Smith Liam

Petko Marina

French Hector

Jackson Liew Rose

van Wering Yusuf

McKoy Shanti

Ashraf Aflah

Zheng Sheena

Shi Jerry

Eden Evelyn

Tayyab Yousuf

Le Jennie

Roche Finn

Fepulea'i Genevieve

Yu Annie

Molloy Madeline

Endres Hugo

Wyatt Olivia

Joe Iris

Evans Daisy

Ranmadugala Dilni

Hobson Isla

Kubota Shino

Garcia Hoyos Daniela

Feng Yuecheng

Yan Kris

Kensington Neve

Khan Arisha

Cui Tonia

Wu Ariel

Wu Antonia