Archie Clarke

Congratulations to Year 8 student Archie Clarke who has recently been selected in the NSW Under 15 Boys Indoor Team. Archie has also been selected by Hockey Australia to umpire at the Under 13s National Indoor Carnival.

These are great achievements and ASC are very proud of you!!

Congratulations to Eden Love who has been selected to attend the prestigious National Youth Science Forum in January 2023.

Eden will spend two weeks in Sydney with Australia’s most passionate and diligent STEM students.

Thank you to the Armidale Rotary Club for supporting Eden through his application.

We wish Eden all the best at NYSF!

NRL 9's Girls 16s...

Monday (5/12) ASC girls played in the finals for the NRL 9s comp. We had just the 9 players so all the team played 110% in the warm Tamworth conditions.

Our try scorers today were Tsharnti Jerrard, Laura Grant and very close kick chase picked up by Dakoda Jex.

Excellent effort girls

ASC Lailani Sinclair year 8....

Lailani competed in the pistol shooting Queensland state championships, (small bore 100m)

Lailani competed in four matches, with the following results:

-Open production b grade 1st

-Revolver b grade 1st

-Standing b grade 2nd

-Unlimited b grade 3rd

-Ladies Aggregate 4th

-Junior Aggregate 1st

A very big congrats to you Lailani!

Josie O‘Baoill has been representing ASC and the New England at the Junior State Debating Championship at The Women’s Coege at the University of Sydney.

The JSDC tournament sees each region select a representative team from those schools who competed in 9&10 Premier’s Debating Championship during the year.

The regional teams come together for a three day camp and a series of round robin debates before a final series and one region being declared a winner. This year the Western, Riverina and New England regions competed as a combined team and won 2 out of 5 debates.

Congratulations WREN on successfully representing your regions and congratulations Western Sydney on winning the competition.

Debating at The Women’s College at the University of Sydney, the Year 8 ASC team competing in the Premier’s Debating Challenge for Years 7 and 8 State Championship as the New England Regional winners. It has been a hectic couple of days, with the girls participating in 5 debates in just over 24hours. Whilst the results may not have gone in our favour, they have engaged in some very mature and close debates on some tricky topics and represented ASC admirably and with pride.

Most importantly, they’ve learnt a lot and had fun!!

Australian Mathematics Competition

(the most popular competition)

This year we had approximately 70 students from years 7 -12 take part the Australian Mathematics Competition. The competition is made up of challenging problem- solving questions and is designed to allow students to demonstrate their ability to answer questions they have not specifically prepared for. Some excellent results were achieved across all year groups.

High Distinction Certificates were awarded to Hugh Watson-Rote year 8 and Flynn Hess year 10. Also, Hugh achieved the school's highest standardised score, receiving the best in school certificate.

Distinction Certificates were awarded to Matthew Collier, Dezi Suddaby year 7, Jay Gates year 8 and Mia Vu year 10.

Credits were attained by:

Year 8 - Alma Kanety, Emelia Kelly and Edward Rowe-Dawson

Year 9 – Rachel Hoang, Austin Mayled and Bradley Sawaki-Gillard

Year 10 – Anna Gooley, Isaac Hellyar and Josie O'Baoill

Year 11 – Jacob Holmes, Toby Downes, Michael Bogeholz and Dominic Rush.

Many other students attained proficiency awards.

Australian Mathematics Challenge Results

High Distinction Certificates: Dezi Suddaby year 7, Marley Doak and Flynn Hess year 10

Distinction Certificates: Jolie Hess and Aayan Ahmed year 8

Credit Certificates: Soren McCarthy-Wilkie and Edward Rowe-Dawson year 8

Australian Mathematics Enrichment:

Credit Certificates: Jacob Cobley year 8

Australian Intermediate Mathematics Olympiad

(only for high achieving students in the Australian Maths Comp)

This four-hour contest is designed to stretch talented students, who have completed Maths Enrichment, are high achievers in the Australian Maths Comp. and have acquired knowledge in Olympiad problem solving. The Australian Maths Trust use the Australian Intermediate Maths Olympiad as one of the competitions to determine which students are selected to a number of invitation-only events, including other maths competitions, enrichment classes and training schools.

Credit Certificate: Matthew Collier year 7 and Hugh Watson-Rote year 8

This year's Maths Comp Coordinators: Jamie Suddaby and Dinusha Wijewickrama.

A very big congrats to all students.

School Spectacular 2022