Deputy Principal - Academic

Mr Richard Baird

ICAS Awards

On Monday 2 May we celebrated our 2nd ICAS (International Competitions and Assessment for Schools) High Achievers’ assembly. This assembly recognises students with Distinctions and High Distinctions placing them in the top 10% and 1% respectively. This test is sat Nationally by high performing students such as GNLC and other leading Independent Colleges and Grammar Schools. I would like to thank the hundreds of GNLC students that sat the test receiving multiple awards.

Please see extract from the Principal’s address from this assembly.

You may be wondering, what does the future hold for you? Some of it depends on you and some of it does not. When you receive your award today, you will be receiving an opportunity - an opportunity to continue your striving for excellence, an opportunity to be your best self and be in control of those things that are up to us!

English
Writing	English	Spelling Bee
Aaleyah Agarwal	Angad Parmar	Aarav Shah
Aarya Patel	Ethan Lui	Collin Qin
Aastha Amin	Lay Patel	Jeevika Patel
Arya Patel	Nathan Xie	Ronit Sondhi
Ayaan Gupta		Smera Patel
Hriday Gupta
Kesha Patel
Zeal Prajapati

Maths Distinction Awards Recipients	Maths High Distinction Awards Recipients
Aarav Patel	Arjun Itankar
Aarush Shah
Meesha Herath
Sahaj Kotadia
Tanay Kotadia

Digital Technology Distinction Award Recipients

Aadarsh Itankar

Aarna Lalakiya

Arjun Itankar

Gemma Tsardakis

Holly Tsardakis

Multiple Distinction Award Recipients
Aashi Gupta	Distinction - English, Spelling Bee, Maths & Digital Technology
Akshaj Ram	Distinction - English and mathematics
Arjun Singh	Distinction - English, Spelling Bee; High Distinction - Maths
Benjamin Li	Distinction - Spelling Bee, Maths; High Distinction - Digital Technology
Ehsaas Waadhwa	Distinction - Writing, English, Maths, Science; HD - Digital Technology
Hrishim Patel	Distinction - Maths & Digital Technology
Jeevika Patel	Distinction- Writing & English
Kennard Dinata	Distinction - Maths & Spelling Bee
Krishav Gupta	Distinction - English, Science, Digital Technology; High Distinction -Maths
Mihita Patel	Distinction - Maths & Spelling Bee
Parth Kardani	Distinction - Maths & Digital Technology
Rishabh Motae	Distinction - Maths, Writing & Science
Rishi Mistry	Distinction - English, Maths, Science & Digital Technology
Ronan Doshi	Distinction - English, Science
Sandaru Arachchilage Suraweera	Distinction - English, Spelling Bee, Science, Digital Technology; High Distinction - Maths
Tanish Thummala	Distinction - Spelling Bee & Maths

Multiple High Distinction Award Recipients
Mayan Nandasana	High Distinction - Spelling Bee, High Distinction - Mathematics, Distinction - English, Science & Digital Technology
Tanya Rajasinghe	High Distinction - English and Maths, Distinction - Spelling Bee & Science
Yuvam Gupta	High Distinction - Spelling Bee & Science, Distinction - English & Maths

Principal’s Award – Highest score in each subject across all year levels
English	Tanya Rajasinghe
Writing	Ehsaas Waadhwa
Spelling Bee	Mayan Nandasana
Mathematics	Tanya Rajasinghe and Arjun Singh
Digital Technology	Benjamin Li
Science	Yuvam Gupta

NAPLAN

NAPLAN testing helps us identify trends on overall student progress and is a very important source of information for diagnostic purposes. NAPLAN testing will take place in Week 3 (from Tuesday 10 May) for our Year 3, 5, 7 & 9 students and will run until Friday 20 May.

There are many different views on the NAPLAN testing, however the data is extremely helpful for our staff. Tests can teach resilience and it can teach students that even though they might feel nervous and uncomfortable, that feeling will pass. Hopefully it teaches some students about perspective, about the importance of being prepared and when they work hard it generally pays off.

The NAPLAN does not measure a students smile, their manners, their values or their worth. It does not measure how they make others feel, their sporting, singing, or acting or many other talents that our students have. God has created all students with different gifts, so please keep that in mind when reviewing their results.