Congratulations to all our 2022 award winners!

Premier Awards 

• Nayland College Jazz Band Cup - Outstanding contribution to Jazz Band: Jayden Day-Anthonise
• Nigel E. Weeks QSM Trophy - Outstanding musician: Jayden Day-Anthonise
• Chapman-Cohen Musical Award - Outstanding contribution to music: Josie Batt
• Bruce Meikle Cup - Excellence in music: Jessica MacBrayne
• Jones Cup - Outstanding Contribution to Dance: Lydia Fitzgerald & Mia Partington
• Eileen Appleton-Maher Cup - Outstanding contribution to drama: Anushka Castaing &Tiaki Sharp
• Cassandra Wells Cup - Best comedy performance: Anushka Castaing &Tiaki Sharp
• De Jong Trophy - Outstanding selfless service to the arts: Lovinia Pluck & Tyler Curtis 

Cultural Blues

A premier award for outstanding contribution to the arts across their whole time at Nayland College.

• Ysabella Abel, Josie Batt, Jayden Day-Anthonise, Isabel Lyttle, Jessica MacBrayne, Hailey Potts, Tiaki Sharp

Cups & Trophies 2022

• Kanikani Award - Most improved dancer: Alex Marshall
• VAST Dance Festival Trophy - Most promising young dancer: Ananda Ismael
• Nayland Dance Trophy - Attitude & Perseverance: Ella McGeady
• Dance & Drama Award - Outstanding performances in dance & drama: Michael Vallance
• Nayland College Junior Drama Cup - Most promising junior drama student: Thora Moffat & Simone Tabili
• The VenueTech Cup - Outstanding contribution to backstage or technical theatre-craft: Kahu Sanson-Burnett
• Nayland College Award For Scriptwriting and/or Directing: Will Irvine & Tegan Jessop
• Nayland College Drama Cup - Best performance in Drama: Molly Clark & Tyler Curtis

• Spaak Cup - Most improved junior student in music: Thora Moffat

• Nelson City Brass Cup - Most improved brass player: Millie MacBrayne
• Nayland College Orchestra Trophy - Outstanding contribution to Orchestra: Millie MacBrayne
• Trinity College London Cup - Outstanding contribution to concert band: Ruth Buckland
• Nelson Civic Choir Choral Cup - Outstanding contribution to choral music: Pippa Sussex

Cultural Awards

• Te Whakawhanake - Most improved: Izobella Abbot
• Te Manawanui - Commitment & participation: Kumeroa Rahipere
• Kaitātaki Tāne - Outstanding Male Leader: Ethan Pemberton
• Kaitātaki Wahine - Outstanding Female Leader: Mia Shepard
• Kaitautoko - Best All Round Supporter & Cultivator of Kapa Haka: Xanthe Banks

Visual Arts Awards

• Most diligent Visual Arts student: Delta Brewerton
• Most innovative and creative visual arts student- Painting: Delta Brewerton
• Most innovative and creative visual arts student- Photography: Kyah Young
• Most innovative and creative visual arts student- Design: Jessica Metcalfe

2022 Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition

Presented at Nayland Arts and Cultural Prizegiving as the event was not held due to COVID

• Rae Herd Award - Best Student Director 15 minutes:  Anushka Castaing
• Nelson Repertory Theatre Award - Best Production 15 minutes: A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Will Power Production Award - Best understanding of the text: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Country Player’s Award - Best Comedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Management Garrick Award - Best Delivery of Lines: Tiaki Sharp
• Rose Shepard Award - Best Actor: Molly Clarke
• Waimea College Award - Best Tragedy: Hamlet
• Lyndal Howley Music Award: Emily Preston-Thomas

Rockquest

• Nelson Regional Rockquest Winners: Tyler Curtis, Jayden Day-Anthonise, Peter Gray, Duncan Petre
• Rockquest National Semi Finalist: Kahu Sanson-Burnett

Certificates for Outstanding Contribution

Sam Gerritsen, Hannah Rodley, Annabel Batt, Finn Kerby-Pinguet, Ciara McLellan, Freya Moffat, Thora Moffat, Ruth Buckland, Katie Gray, Peter Gray, Molly Clarke, Millie MacBrayne, Russell Sarginson, Molly Sussex, Lovinia Pluck