The Academic Excellence Assembly was held on Wednesday 20 February. It was wonderful to have so many boys from the 2012 HSC and IBDP cohorts return to the College and have their outstanding academic achievements acknowledged by the full school community.

A total of 43 boys were invited back for the occasion. The assembly recognised:

• Individuals that achieved the top HSC mark at Newington in a particular subject
• Students that received a ‘7’ in an IB Diploma Programme subject
• Boys that received maximum points in Theory of Knowledge and their Extended Essays in the IBDP
• Those that were nominated for one of the HSC exhibitions, namely OnStage, Encore, Art Express, DesignTech, InTech or Exemplar
• Those that were recognised by the Board of Studies as Top Achievers in the HSC for gaining a top twenty placing in the state in a particular subject
• Those that received a Premier’s Award for all round achievement, having achieved a mark of 90 or above in 10 units of HSC subjects
• Those that received an ATAR or UAC rank of 99 or above.

Robert Morrison (ON ’07), Deputy-Senior Prefect and a Premier’s Award winner from 2007, was the guest speaker at the assembly.

The following boys were invited to the assembly and those present received a wonderful ovation:

Phillip Alphonse, Kevin Arya, Spyridon Augoustinos, Angus Bagby, Adam Bertino, Zubin Bilimoria, David Bretag, Michael Cameron, Nicholas Chapman, Alexander Chiu, Jonathan Ciofani, Tom Crotty, Joseph Dorph, Michael Drummond, Christian Ferrao, Ciaran Frame, Jordan Garofali, James Grogin, Daniel Han, Lewis Jones, Devin Khatri, Gregory Koumoukelis, Collin Liang, Jordan Loy, Giulio Mancuso, Matthew Markakis, Max Miller Bock, James Palmer, Sebastian Pyne, Adam Rasko, Jackson Rickard, Nicholas Scaltrito, Andrew See, Matthew Shim, Max Stanistreet, Jarrod Stilp, Brandon Taylor, Mitchell Travers, James Torres-Lynch, Myles Turpin, Edward Watson, Nicholas Xenos and Anthony Yao

In addition, those boys that had qualified for the award of Academic Colours in 2012 were presented on stage.

In recognition of their outstanding academic achievement in Year 10 2012, Academic Colours were awarded to Ben Adams (11/FL), Jayce Carrano (11/MA), Aki Flame (11/JN) and Thomas Van Der Velde (11/JN).

In recognition of their outstanding academic achievement in the Preliminary Higher School Certificate Course in 2012, Academic Colours were awarded to Marcus Atallah (12/ME), Harrison Calligeros (12/JN), Clinton Chan (12/MA), Sam Hardy (12/MO), Stephen Kotsopoulos (12/LE), James Tsaousidis (12/ME) and Joshua Yu (12/LE).

Ms Julia Shea
Head of Learning and Teaching