From the Dean of Studies

Class of 2017

“You climb a mountain. You’re not sure how high you want to go – that peak looks an awfully long way off – but you know you want to get higher than you currently are. You could simply take off on whichever path looks promising and hope for the best, but you’re probably not going to get very far. Or you could rely on a guide who has been to the peak and knows the best way there. That will guarantee that no matter how high you decide to climb, you are doing it in the most efficient, effective way.” – Professor Anders Ericsson

As one of the world’s reigning experts on expertise, Professor Anders Ericsson has conducted research into what makes ordinary people achieve the extraordinary, and this was the inspiration for the, '10,000 hours rule' – the popular theory that 10,000 hours of any type of practice will allow an individual to excel in any field. Further to this, Professor Ericsson also describes how a particular type of extended practice leads to exceptional performance.

At the first College Assembly for this year, we acknowledged students from the Class of 2017 for their achievement in ‘climbing the mountain’ towards the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE). The College acknowledges the outstanding achievements including the effort of Joyce Zhuang with her achievement of an ATAR of 99.3 and being awarded a Certificate of Distinction. The Certificate of Distinction is awarded to a student who achieves in their last three consecutive years of Senior Secondary WACE enrolment, an overall points aggregate of 190 – 200 points, and the Certificate of Merit is awarded to a student who achieves an overall points aggregate of between 150 and 189 points.

The College recognised the newest members of the '95 Club' (achieving an ATAR of 95 or greater), along with the following students:

Certificate of Distinction & '95 Club'

Joyce Zhuang  

Jasdeep Jutla                                                                                     

Certificate of Distinction

Chloe McLevie

Certificate of Merit & '95 Club'

Gabriel Nge, Belinda Donovan, Reece Don                                                                                     

Certificate of Merit

Tara Dally, Kaitlyn Fashho, Jack Higgs, Viduni Liyanage, Mason Marshall, Lisa Moffat, Kamitha Naidu, Jimmy Ton, Ellen-Rose Ward, Caleb White                                                          

We also congratulate Livinia Cupitt-Neville for achieving the VET Certificate of Excellence for being in the Top 0.5% of candidates who complete an AQF Certificate II or higher in each national industry area in their final year.

Academic Honours

Academic Honours were introduced into the College in 2013. This award is presented to students who achieved an ‘A’ Grade average from their Top Eight (Units of Study) in Year 11.

The Academic Honours were presented to the following students from the Class of 2018:

Bronwyn Brims, Kate Cooper, Bijaya Dulal, Michael Hegney, Joshua Hussey-Allen, Michael McLevie, Amy Murphy, Jayden Smeschal, Linda Yeoh.      

College Awards

The College recognised the current students who were recipients of Academic Distinction and the Ad Omnia Paratus Awards ('Prepared for all Good Works') from their Semester Two 2017 Reports.

The Academic Distinction is awarded to a student who achieves an ‘A’ grade in nearly all subjects, whilst the Ad Omnia Paratus Award recognises the learning behaviours of a student, through the achievement of at least 85% of Excellent ratings awarded by subject teachers in the attributes of: Application, Behaviour, Completion of Assigned Tasks and Organisation.

In addition to this, the student maintains high standards of learning behaviour with all attribute ratings being higher than Satisfactory. The College congratulates all our award winners and affirms their effort to be the best they can be.

ACADEMIC DISTINCTION & AD OMNIA PARATUS

Year 7: Holly Giles, Stephni Jesuthasan, Caitlin Pettersen, Bianca Valenti.                                   

Year 8: Arielle Chant, Danika Hampson, Anushka Kotian, Lily McDonald, 

Angel Moffat, Max Patriarca, Tegan Reder,

Matilda Seroney, Nicole Vlahov.                                          

Year 9: Annissa Buckby, Amanda D’Cruz,

Lorenzo Donatelli, Riley Moore, Yen Ngo, Chloe Reder, Arlene Saji, SelinaTan, Elsa Tan.                                  

Year 10: Tallulah Armenti, Sanjita Ghimire,

Oscar McDonald, Millen Paneru, Dylan Wemyss.                    

Year 11: Bronwyn Brims, Tully Bristow, Melisse Burgoyne, Michael Hegney.        

ACADEMIC DISTINCTION

Year 7: Stephanie Earsman, Elijah Edmonds,

Miah Homez, Audrey Lee, Ciara McClean, 

Harriet McCready, Hay Marn Mu, Shannette Ndossi, Guntaas Ranu, Ayden Ratnasekera,

Theo Steed, Phoebe van Heiningen.

Year 8: Alina George, Shenae Hartree, Connor Le Dain, Jordan-Blaze Lightbourn, Chelsea Macalad, Tiana Suckling, Diep Nguyen, Rachel Bruyns, Chloe Hewitt, Isioma Onyemgba, 

Joseph Costantino, Zeta Stevens, Alissa Yang, 

Keisha Desmond, Mya Oppelaar.

Year 9: Sona Abraham, Kyla Almeida, Licia Benedict, Isabella Ficko, Teyan Hodgson, 

Emereen Moratalla, Emma Paskett, Sarina Russell, Caitlin Spiegl, Grace White, Elicia Yii.

Year 10: Monicca Biju, Chelsea Dato, Ana Christine De Veyra, Jaco Jansen van Rensburg, Shanzae Jehangiri, Vivian Johnson, Yajnah Juggessur, Jessica Ramos, Aldric Ratnasekera, 

Dawn Saji, Simran Shivnani, Shakira Surin.

Year 11: Daisy Bond, Abbey Chehab, Kate Cooper, Joshua Hussey-Allen, Michael McLevie, Tahlia Nicolaidis.

AD OMNIA PARATUS

Bonnie McKnight (Year 7), Virginia Pambuka (Year 10), Faith Desmond (Year 11), Samuel Eaton (Year 11), Ira Sanchez (Year 11).

Congratulations to all award winners and as a College we strive every day to encourage all students to practice the habits for success and lead them to ‘climb their own mountain’ of exceptional performance.

Mr R Dowling (Dean of Studies)