Thursday 19 October 2023 Nancy Light Hall

Major Awards

Old Girl Award for Contribution to Performing Arts - Gwen Lyon and Ruby Lyon

WILLIAMSON AWARD for Outstanding Leadership in the Arts - Kaitlin Thorrold

ARTS LAUREATE - Julia Sharratt

Arts Awards

Music Awards

ORBELL CUP for Junior Flute Ella Pritchard

REID MUSIC TROPHY for Wind Instruments Stephanie Gutsell

NISBET CUP for Junior Piano - Grade 1-2 Serena Junge

WENTWORTH CUP for Progress in Strings Joy Liao

DEIRDRE PARR MUSIC CUP for the Advanced String Player Contributing most to School Music Diny Zhou

The Vicky McLennan Original Composition Award For her entry of an original song for High Achievers Chloe Housley

HAMILTON PIANOS CUP for Excellence in Music Ellena Wood

Stewart Cup for Spirit of Choir Singing, with a donation from Adam Stewart and the Stewart family Ellena Wood

The Music Citizenship Award (prize donated by Shearers Music) Ava Germaine

Patricia Radich Cup for Contribution to the Performing Arts Ava Germaine

JANE HOLMES CUP for Excellence in Choral Work Esther Keller

GERALDINE ADAMS CUP for Contribution to School Music Esther Keller

Dance, Drama and Performing Arts Awards

The ABBY DUTTON CUP for Passion for Dance Lexie Stock

KERYN BAIN AWARD for Leadership in Dance Kaitlin Thorold

SUSAN HAYWORTH Award for Best Drama Performance of the Year for her performance as Lisa in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Catherine Curry

The ASHLYN SMITH CUP for Service to Stagecraft Teresa Oertly

Visual and Technology Arts Awards

Culinary Fare Trust's Passion for Culinary Arts’ Cup, with a prize donated from Wintec Culinary Fare  Kate Heatley

Divinitus inspirata consilio (Inspired Design) - For all-around excellence through the communication of design ideas that convey the candidate's design thinking. Exploring a broad context to create technological outcomes which expand human possibilities by addressing a need or opportunity Alena Zhu

Digital Design Award awarded to an innovative creator of digital solutions and computational thinking Sarah Teale

CAMERON AWARD for Visionary Artistic Practice  Peyton Woolerton

Innovation Award - For Visionary Technological Practice  Julia Sharratt

GLOVER AWARD for Excellence in Visual Art - an award created by Fred Graham for all-round excellence in Visual Art  Julia Sharratt

Oratory and Kapa Haka Awards

TE KAI A TE RANGATIRA - Trophy for Most Promising Junior Debater Ruby Parham

JESSICA CHEN AWARD for Most Improved Junior Debater Hayley Rong

KIM BURKHART CUP for Best Senior Debater  Brooke Manderson

The ‘Rangitahi Ka Ea’ Leadership in Kapa Haka Award  Lani Kete

‘The Kaahu Korowai' Award  Amiria Douglas

Junior Arts Honours

Junior Dance Honours

• Bailee Horan
• Addison Kenyon
• Kiera Lloyd
• Poppy Malins
• Bella McLauchlan-Hillary
• Charli Murphy
• Mikayla Thorrold

Junior Drama Honours

• Holly Wine

Junior Kapa Haka Honours

• Ella Bramwell

Junior Oratory Honours

• Hayley Rong
• Asha-Rose Baker
• Isabella Wang

Junior Music Honours

• Arnah Currie
• Jess Foster
• Caroline Glander
• Melody Guo
• Mia Jia
• Aria Jones
• Jasper Chen
• Niamh McCay
• Amy Nielsen
• Eden Wootton
• Cate Young
• Kaia Nation
• Meah Nelis
• Claudia Noble
• Hayley Penn
• Isabella Rose
• Anmol Virk

The following students are awarded Junior arts honours in more than one genre

• Margot Crawford - Dance and Drama
• Iona Boswell - Dance and Kapa Haka
• Tessa Gao - Dance and Music
• Summa Griffiths - Dance and Music
• Angelina Wang - Dance and Music
• Ziwen Guo - Dance and Oratory
• Gabriella Schuitemaker - Dance and Music
• Lily Su - Dance and Oratory
• Mannat Kaur - Dance and Oratory
• Sarah Wang - Dance and Music
• Shanshan Fu - Dance and Music
• Sarina Reymer - Drama and Music
• Harper McNaughten - Kapa Haka and Oratory
• Evie Sharman - Music and Oratory
• Frances Gregory - Music and Oratory
• Lily Goodwin - Music and Oratory
• Hazel Kersel-Stubbs - Music and Oratory
• Maja Baker-Seoighe - Music and Oratory
• Talia Davidson - Music and Oratory
• Ella Pritchard - Drama and Music
• Ruby McKay - Dance, Drama and Music
• Chloe Hopkins - Dance, Drama and Oratory
• Zara Hoad - Music and Technical Arts
• Sophia Greenslade - Music and Technical Arts
• Islay Bowman - Dance, Music, and Technical Arts
• Emily Germaine - Dance, Music, and Technical Arts
• Scarlett Cox - Dance, Drama and Music
• Isla Ward - Dance, Drama and Music
• Kyra-Mae Wilson - Drama, Music and Oratory

Senior Arts Honours

Senior Drama Honours

• Keisha Joe
• Ashleigh Davison
• Erica Gray

Senior Kapa Haka Honours

• Kate Marshall
• Lucy McMorran
• Tania Pakinga
• Lani Kete
• Grace Semmens
• Annika Te Anga

Senior Dance Honours

• Shannon Aplin
• Sienna Casey
• Olivia Cook
• Mia Cooper
• Lucy Glover
• Anna Hansen
• Reitu Kukutai- Wilson
• Elizabeth Macdonald
• Esandi Silva
• Olivia Lockwood
• Hannah Macdonald
• Jessica Mealing
• Chelsea Rundstrom
• Casabella Smith
• Lexie Stock

Senior Music Honours

• Isla Bibby
• Elodie Bowman
• Ella Cain
• Amy Donkin
• Jorja-Rose Griffiths
• Stephanie Gutsell
• Esther Keller
• Maria Lynch
• Sophie Morgans
• Julianna Wang
• Amy Yang

Senior Oratory Honours

• Shania Bhatia
• Hayley Forshaw
• Joie Lin
• Olivia Wang
• Hazar Yousef

Senior Visual Arts Honours

• Ella Perry
• Alena Zhu

Senior Technical Arts Honours

• Sophie Wright
• Shae Ellice
• Teresa Oertly

Performing Arts Honours

• Abigail Strever

The following students are awarded Senior arts honours in more than one genre.

• Ella Ramsay - Dance and Music
• Iris Wainui-Mackle - Dance and Kapa Haka
• Charlotte Bidois - Drama and Kapa Haka
• Lilli Parres - Drama and Kapa Haka
• Jamie Bidois - Drama and Kapa Haka
• Ashleigh Darby - Drama and Music
• Breanna Rickman - Drama and Music
• Ellena Wood - Drama and Music
• Imbi Crossland - Drama and Music
• Moxon Laing - Drama and Music
• Catherine Curry - Drama and Oratory
• Vina Young - Drama and Oratory
• Hera Douglas - Kapa Haka and Music
• Allie MacEwan - Kapa Haka and Oratory
• Natalie Carter - Kapa Haka and Technical Arts
• Amiria Douglas - Kapa Haka and Performing Arts
• Diny Zhou - Music and Oratory
• Jacqueline Li - Music and Oratory
• Joy Liao - Music and Oratory
• Kezia Schuitemaker - Music and Oratory
• Victoria Eng - Music and Oratory
• Kaitlin Thorrold - Dance and Drama
• Kheesa Rahman - Drama and Music
• Skyla Clarke - Drama and Technical Arts
• Emilee Mehrtens - Kapa Haka and Oratory
• Tiaria Potaka - Kapa Haka and Oratory
• Ellen Liu - Music and Oratory
• Katie Liu - Music and Oratory
• Linda Nielsen - Music and Oratory
• Irene Chun - Music and Technical Arts
• Shelby Bowater - Drama, Kapa Haka, and Music
• Neha Kurien - Kapa Haka, Oratory, Performing and Technical Arts
• Sarah Hilton - Drama, Oratory, and Performing Arts
• Brooke Manderson - Dance, Drama and Oratory
• Kayla Te Kani - Dance, Drama, and Technical Arts
• Ava Germaine - Drama, Kapa Haka, and Music
• Bonnie Feng - Drama, Oratory, and Music
• Hunter Jones - Drama, Music, Oratory, and Technical Arts
• Julia Sharratt - Drama, Oratory, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts

See photos from the evening in the Gallery section of this DioNews.