On Wednesday March 1st, we were able to celebrate our 2022 NCEA academic awards with our entire senior school assembled in our school hall. Incidentally this was the first time since covid we have been able to have all of our year 11, 12 and 13 students together at one time.

Students were recognised for gaining NCEA certificate endorsement and course endorsement.

For an NCEA certificate to be endorsed with Excellence a student must gain 46 credits at Excellence, at the level of the certificate or above. So, if a student has 46 Level 1 credits at Excellence, they may have their Level 1 certificate endorsed with Excellence. Likewise, if a student gains 46 credits at Merit (or Merit and Excellence) at Level 1 their NCEA Level 1 certificate may be endorsed with Merit.

Course/subject endorsement provides recognition of student achievement in an individual course.

Students will gain an endorsement for a course if, in a single school year, they achieve:

14 or more credits at Achieved or Merit or Excellence, and at least 3 of these credits from externally assessed standards and 3 credits from internally assessed standards.

Note: this does not apply to Physical Education, and level 3 Visual Arts.

A list of the recipients is attached. Photos of the can be viewed here.