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Senior Prize-Giving - Tuesday 1 November

Waitaki Girls' High School —

Congratulations to the recipients of awards and scholarships at Senior Prize-Giving. We wish our Year 13's all the best for the future.

Cultural Awards

Shannon Burnett contribution to school music); Rhiannon Thomas (contribution to Oamaru Youth Orchestra), Georgina Carter Trotman (year 11 writing prize); Andy Haywood (year 12 writing prize).

Sports Awards

Ashley Nicholson (NZ honours in trapshooting); Emma Spittle (NZ honours in rowing); Katie Kinnaird (NZ honours in smallbore shooting); Sarah Jamison (NZ honours in athletics); Holly Taylor (most inspiring senior in sport).

Academic Awards

Year 11

Gabrielle Dennison (diligence and progress); Norhanan Rozaidi (2nd transition); Amber Malafu (2nd life science); Chelsea Monahan (2nd mathematics for life); Luka Lavell (2nd digital technology); Poppy Wraight (2nd textiles technology); Willow Brew (2nd art); Larnie Davidson (2nd German); Anna Mansfield (2nd food and nutrition technology); Emily Mavor (2nd physical education); Jemima McLean (2nd geography); Sophie McSkimming (2nd agriculture); Maddy Phillips (2nd business); Ofa Tokai (2nd music); Mercedes Kennedy (1st transition); Kayla Hay (1st mathematics for life); Summer Borrie (1st agriculture); Georgina Carter Trotman (1st history); Hannah Shallish (1st food and nutrition technology); Sophie Notman (1st physical education, 2nd history); Charlotte Lane (1st German, 2nd L2 English); Milan Beattie (1st life science, 1st music); Allie Senior (1st digital technology, 1st textiles technology, 2nd English); Rhiannon Thomas (1st Mandarin – Distance Learning, 1st L2 English, 2nd mathematics, 1st L2 music, 2nd science); Anika Hayes (1st art, 1st business, 1st L1 English, 1st L2 French, 1st mathematics, 1st science, 1st level 1 Spanish – Distance Learning and the cup for academic excellence in Year 11)

Year 12

Paige Hacquoil (2nd gateway); Zoe Osborne (2nd bridge to L2mathematics); Lei Tefaiva (2nd transition); Lily Wickham (2nd agriculture); Amelia Bush (2nd art – photography); Noa Smith (2nd art – painting); Hannah Miller (2nd chemistry); Eden Gilchrist (2nd geography); Michelle Fairbairn (2nd mathematics); Renee Stenning (2nd food and nutrition technology, 2nd physical education); Saskia Brienesse-Little (2nd digital technology, diligence and progress); Amy Perry (1st bridge to L2 mathematics); Sophia Ewing (1st transition); Mya Nicol (1st physical education); Sol Cunningham (1st art – photography); Holly Horn (1st geography); Max Geddis (1st digital technology, 2nd design, 2nd physics); Mackenzie Musgrave (1st gateway, 1st tourism); Rebecca Dorsey (1st food and nutrition technology, 1st textiles technology); Ruby McDermott (1st art – painting, 1st design, 2nd biology, 2nd textiles technology); Holly Ross (1st economics, 1st mathematics, 2nd accounting, 2nd history); Georgia Hawkins (1st agriculture, 1st biology, 1st mathematics and statistics); Emma Spittle (1st chemistry, 1st history, 1st physics, 2nd economics); Casey Kinns (1st accounting, 2nd mathematics and statistics – Trophy for academic excellence in Year 12)

Year 13

Sophie McMillan-Sinclair (diligence and progress); Ashley Nicholson (diligence and progress); Hannah Tiffen (2nd gateway); Mady Rawson (2nd agriculture); Charlotte Nichols (2nd food and nutrition technology); Laura Grant (2nd economics); Olivia Hamilton (2nd mathematics); Hayley Sim (2nd media studies); Hayley Sim (2nd media studies); Seannah Nuttall (2nd history, 2nd Music); Larissa Hore (2nd art – painting, 2nd design, 2nd physics); Jennifer Toutai (1st mathematics); Skyler Irwin (1st tourism); Lilian Tepper (1st agriculture); Shannon Burnett (1st music and cup for humanities); Esther Gbolagun (1st digital technology); Ella Hamilton (1st history); Ella Phillips (1st classical studies, diligence and progress); Larissa Freeman (1st transition, 2nd English); Jordyn Phillips (1st geography, 2nd physical education); Chyna Edmonston (1st gateway, 2nd tourism, 2nd transition); Taylar Keene (1st media studies, 2nd art – photography, 2nd digital technology); Arrow Koehler (1st art – painting, 1st art – photography); Holly Taylor (1st physical education, 1st textiles technology, 2nd geography); Breanna Stewart (1st design, 1st economics, 2nd classical studies, 2nd textiles technology); Katie Kinnaird (1st biology, 1st English, 1st food and nutrition technology, 2nd chemistry, 2nd statistics); Charlotte Wollstein (1st chemistry, 1st L3 Japanese – distance learning, 1st physics, 1st statistics, 2nd biology, prize for top science student).

Leadership Awards

Ella Phillips (head boarder); Holly Taylor and Breanna Stewart (Burn House captains); Charlotte Nichols and Hayley Sim (Ferguson House captains); Ane Tangifolau and Ella Hamilton (Gibson House captains); Bailey Chapman and Paris Fellows (Wilson House captains); Jordyn Phillips (sports prefect); Emma Meikle (service prefect); Shannon Burnett (cultural prefect); Charlotte Wollstein (academic prefect); Katie Kinnaird (deputy head girl); Sophie McMillan-Sinclair (head girl).

Service Awards

Arrow Koehler (canteen service); Esther Gbolagun (senior school service); Amnesty International (group effort), Mady Rawson (service to the community); Lousiale Fifita (Pasifika achievement and cultural contribution award, cup for service to board of trustees as student representative).

Tertiary and Special Awards

Hannah Tiffen (Prime Minister’s vocational award); Jordyn Phillips (Otago Polytechnic scholarship); Mady Rawson, Seannah Nuttall and Ane Tangifolau (Otago University scholarship); Lilian Tepper (Masonic Charitable Trust tertiary award); Shannon Burnett (Altrusa tertiary scholarship and Iris Romans scholarship); Sophie McMillan-Sinclair (Zonta scholarship, Class Act award, Otago University scholarship); Emma Meikle, Breanna Stewart and Holly Taylor (Futures Trust scholarship); Esther Gbolagun and Ashley Nicholson (Eunice Brown scholarship); Katie Kinnaird (Eunice Brown scholarship, Violet Monteath-Walker scholarship, Class Act Award, Otago University scholarship).

Honours Awards

Dux House – Burn; Senior Sports Dux – Sarah Jamison; Senior Cultural Dux – Shannon Burnett; all round excellence – Holly Taylor; Proxime Accessit – Katie Kinnaird; Dux of the School – Charlotte Wollstein.