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2011 Prime Minister’s Award Announced
Hon Hekia Parata
Minister of Education
27 April 2012 Media Statement
2011 Prime Minister’s Award announced
Jade Fai Leung from Auckland’s St Cuthbert’s College was named today as winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Academic Excellence.
Education Minister, Hekia Parata, presented the Top Scholar Awards, on behalf of the Prime Minister, at Government House.
The Prime Minister’s Award for Academic Excellence recognises the highest achieving student in the annual New Zealand scholarship examinations.
“Jade has achieved an extraordinary six Outstanding Scholarships in Chemistry, Geography, Painting, Physics, Science, and Statistics and Modelling,’’ says Ms Parata.
“This is an amazing achievement as Outstanding Scholars are the top 1 per cent of the cohort for each subject.
“On top of this, Jade has also achieved Scholarships in Biology, English, and Spanish. This makes for an impressive nine Scholarship awards in total.”
It is the second year the Prime Minister’s Award for Academic Excellence has been presented. The Award encourages and motivates students to achieve the very highest academic levels.
The Top Scholar Award ceremony also
recognised the achievements of 10 Premier Award winners.
Premier Awards are limited to the top 5 to 10 Scholarship
students in New Zealand, and the 35 Top Subject
Scholars.
New Zealand Scholarship Award
winners
Premier Award winners:
| Aubin Antoine Bannwarth | Outstanding Scholarship in
Chemistry, French, Mathematics with Calculus, Physics,
Statistics and Modelling, Scholarship in Economics, Science | Alfriston College |
| Kieran An Brennan | Outstanding Scholarship in Biology,
Mathematics with Calculus, Physics, Statistics and
Modelling, Scholarship in Science | Palmerston North Boys’ High School |
| Hadleigh Robert Frost | Outstanding Scholarship in Mathematics
with Calculus, Physics, Statistics and Modelling, Science,
Scholarship in Chemistry | Lincoln High School |
| *Thomas Daniel Gerson Frost | Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry,
English, Physics, Statistics and
Modelling Scholarship in Biology, Mathematics with Calculus | Christ’s College |
| Hamish Hirschberg | Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics with Calculus, Physics, Statistics and Modelling | Rathkeale College |
| Kimberley Yu San Lee | Outstanding Scholarship in Biology,
Chemistry, Physics, Statistics and
Modelling Scholarship in English | St Cuthbert’s College |
| *Jade Fai Leung | Outstanding Scholarship in Chemistry,
Geography, Painting, Physics, Science, and Statistics and
Modelling Scholarship in Biology, English, Spanish, | St Cuthbert’s College |
| Benedict John Morrissey | Outstanding Scholarship in
Chemistry, Mathematics with Calculus, Physics, Statistics
and Modelling Scholarship in Biology, Science | Garin College |
| *Nicholas Alexander Julian Orr | Outstanding Scholarship
in English, French, Geography, History Scholarship in Economics | Auckland Grammar School |
| *Sarah Natalie Wright | Outstanding Scholarship in Biology,
Mathematics with Calculus, Physics, Statistics and
Modelling Scholarship in Chemistry, Geography | St Andrew’s College |
* Also a Top Subject Scholar
Top Subject Scholarship Award winners:
| Accounting | Amy Rice | Villa Maria College |
| Agricultural and Horticultural Science | Reuben Christopher Brown | Christchurch Boys’ High School |
| Art History | John William Gibbs | Cashmere High School |
| Biology | Sarah Natalie Wright | St Andrew’s College |
| Chemistry | Jade Fai Leung | St Cuthbert’s College |
| Chinese | Ming Lu Li | Macleans College |
| Classical Studies | Kevin Cai | Auckland Grammar School |
| Dance | Caitlin O’Brien Thompson | Rutherford College |
| Drama | Evan John Fenemor | Kavanagh College |
| Economics | Sophie Bishop | New Plymouth Girls’ High School |
| English | Catherine Hsiao-Wei Hsu | ACG Senior College |
| French | Nicholas Alexander Julian Orr | Auckland Grammar School |
| Geography | Nicholas Alexander Julian Orr | Auckland Grammar School |
| German | Christian Holtorf | Otago Boys’ High School |
| Graphics | Samuel Blok | Waiheke High School |
| History | Lydia Nola Wilson | Howick College |
| Japanese | Riki Fujii | Green Bay High School |
| Latin | Alan Ansell | New Plymouth Boys’ High School |
| Mathematics with Calculus | Ha-Young Shin | Christchurch Boys’ High School |
| Media Studies | Andrew Tan Delli Cicchi | Wellington College |
| Music | Jessie Sun | Macleans College |
| Physical Education | Kate Hannah Maxwell | James Hargest College |
| Physics | Ivan Pavlov | Macleans College |
| Samoan | Felicity Muamai Hakai | McAuley High School |
| Science | Amy Yue Xiao | ACG Senior College |
| Spanish | Stephanie Kjestrup | Macleans College |
| Statistics and Modelling | Thomas Frost | Christ’s College |
| Te Reo Maori | Hana-Te Kowhai Treadaway Ohia | Ngā Taiatea Wharekura Hamilton |
| Te Reo Rangatira | Te Kauru Nohotima | St Peter’s College Palmerston North |
| Technology | Theodore Carlos | Rosmini College |
| Visual Arts - Design | Jasper James Alwyn Owen | Wellington College |
| Visual Arts - Painting | Grace Fiona Pickford | Pukekohe High School |
| Visual Arts - Photography | Tim Webby | Western Springs College |
| Visual Arts - Printmaking | Kyu Seo Park | Burnside High School |
| Visual Arts - Sculpture | Leticia Daisy Durant | Wellington East Girls’ College |
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