Teaching and Learning

 

On Monday, we celebrated one of the most important events on our calendar, our annual Scholars’ Assembly, where we publicly recognised the academic success of our top students in 2018.

Jessica Fishburn (Old Collegian, 2008) spoke about her time at school, her experiences in becoming a physiotherapist and a founding partner at Gen Health Hamilton, and her life as a new mum to a four-week-old boy, Bobby. Her message of balance in both perseverance through adversity and celebration in times of success (as delivered through the philosophical lens of Dr Seuss) was a powerful one for our students. Implicit in Dr Hirst’s challenge from the start of year (‘Greatness is in the grasp of us all’) is the notion that we are all capable of perseverance and persistence, and this notion was one that Ms Fishburn delivered in a personal and relatable manner.

We recognised our eight College Scholars for 2018, whose names adorn the honour boards on each side of the stage in the Simons’ Auditorium, as inspiration for our students. College Scholars are those students who achieve an ATAR of 95 or above, or a perfect Study Score in a subject. Congratulations to our 2018 College Scholars: Philippa Gan (2018 Dux), Claire Dempsey (2018 Proxime Accessit), Nyah Bester, Timothy Gilling, Kyle Herbertson, Alec Jagger, Niamh Jones and Claudia Roberts.

We also recognised the top five academic achievers in each year level, and subject prize winners in VCE Unit 1&2 and Vocational Education and Training. Special awards were given to Tess Dempsey, in recognition of her entry into the University of Melbourne Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program, and Euan Sutherland, who was a National Winner in the Australian History Prize.

Congratulations to our prize winners and we hope that all of our students strive to build on their achievements this year.

Ralph Carolan