It was wonderful to welcome back our 2022 Year 13 Scholarship recipients who are now embarking on exciting tertiary study journeys. They joined four of our students who gained a Scholarship in Year 12. Congratulations to Loji Moharram, Kristine Escueta (graduates) and Elizabeth Olusina (Year 13 2023) who gained Scholarship in Biology. Hetty Finney Waters (graduate) gained a Scholarship in Biology and Classical Studies, Ella Richardson (Year 13 2023) gained a Scholarship in Spanish. Emily Esplin and Sarah Issa (graduates), Juju Mohorram (Year 13 2023) and Jenny de la Harpe (Year 13 2023) received Scholarships in English.

Scholarship is an exam that asks our young people to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding, and ideas to complex situations. It's a different kind of approach than your NCEA exam papers. In fact, often you can have more fun and think outside the square. If you are in the senior school and would like to sit a Scholarship examination in November, talk to your teacher or to the head of your curriculum area to see when the tutorials begin. A Dunedin-wide scholarship tutorial programme is also offered by the University of Otago where students can discuss ways of learning and how to approach Scholarship paper with other young people across our local high schools. This usually begins a little later in the year while some of our own school tutorials begin later in Term One. Come and have a chat with Ms Dick if you have any questions.