It is with this in mind that we are proud to congratulate the high number of boys who gained an endorsement of their NCEA certificates. This confirms that for John McGlashan College boys, just ‘getting over the bar’ is not enough. Their success is the result of a combination of factors which include hard work, high expectation and strong student-teacher relationships which have often been forged in the co-curricular environment.

At John McGlashan College we have a holistic approach to enrolment and boys are not selected on academic ability alone. It is an acknowledgement of this approach that the boys who have achieved academic success, also follow a broad range of sporting and cultural interests often with the same degree of accomplishment.

On the theme of celebrating success, we held a get together last Friday for the 2015 Prefects and members of the 100 Club and 200 Club along with their parents, staff and board members. The 100 and 200 Club boys gained elite grades in their N.C.E.A or International Baccalaureate exams. The criteria for a National Excellence Certificate is fifty excellence grades but twelve McGlashan boys at Level 1 and 2 gained the equivalent of 100 excellence credits, double the national level. Nic Taylor and Henry Sullivan had some words of wisdom for the group, which included Board of Trustees Chairman James Reid and Chair of the Board of Trustees Curriculum Committee Jane Davis who were also present to congratulate these boys.

You will see in the photo gallery below a table of results comparing our Level 1, 2 and 3 results with the national averages in N.C.E.A. from schools in the same decile rating. It needs to be noted that 20–25% of our boys study the International Baccalaureate at Year 12 and 13 and that our results would be even more impressive if the statistics included these boys. In past tables of N.C.E.A. statistics published in the O.D.T. it failed to explain that our academically-capable International Baccalaureate students are not included in our N.C.E.A. results.

Level 1 Excellence Endorsement

James Anderson
Guillaume Bennani
Jordan Buck
Jerry Chen
Alexander Chirnside
Lachlan Chittock
William Creighton
Luke Davis Rae
Matthew Dockerty
Joseph Garry
Luke Jarvie
Louis Jennings
Harrison Lawrence
Seamus Leahy
Noah Linscott
Joshua Mackay
Raphael Magnuson
James McEwan
Ryan Neill
Luke Nie
Louis Renner
Mark Robertson
Harry Rodger
Peter Sangster
Michael Sewell
Jack Spence
Andre Theis
Alexander Timmings
Christian Tucker
Timothy Varsanyi
Ryan Whelan
Greagh Williams

Level 1 Merit Endorsement

Will Adamson
David Alsop
William Archer
Anjas Bhogal
Joshua Bijl
Charles Cox
Jean Du Plessis
Luke Duncan
Edward Ennion Dickison
Rory Ferguson
Angus Foley Walker
Liam Hickman
Ethan Jane
Connor Johnstone
Brett Kingsbury
William Kirkwood
Ho Kwok
Cameron Lowery
Tom Mee
Liam Miller
Samuel Moir Grace
James Phizacklea
Philip Plant
James Preston
Mitchell Rogers
George Russell
Shane Sanders
Kiran Skelton
Harrison Taylor
Chanachoke Thammongkoichai
Hamish van Dyk
Sean van Dyk

Level 2 Excellence Endorsement

Lachlan Cameron
Joseph Corbett
Charles Darling
Samuel Darling
Liam Geddes
Guy Guilford
Jae Jo
Semisi Maiai
David Marshall
Wilson Mitchell
Joshua Preston
Henry Sullivan
Shuichi Tanimura
Philip Tong
Han Zhang

Level 2 Merit Endorsement

Joe Allison
Michael Anderson
James Baker
Jayden Baker
Tobias Cormack
Danny Crowley
Michael Ellison
Jack Gibbons
Thomas Grave
Harry Hasselman
Gwyn Jones
Andrew Koens
Benjamin Lovelock
Jack Manning
George McLauchlan
Timothy Offen
Alistair Page
David Paul
William Pinfold
Carlos Reid
Struan Robertson
Robert Shand
Oliver Sidey Moore
Thomas Sinclair
Mitchell Sizemore
Hamish Timms
Joshua Timu

Best regards,

Neil Garry.

Otago Secondary School Athletics