Gifted and Talented The Senior School Honours program continues to be well supported by gifted and highly able students this year, with around 10 students achieving Honours Society. The Honours projects completed this year were in Business, Chinese, Drama, English, French, Graphics, Humanities, Information Communication Technology, Library, Life and Faith, Maths and Science. As part of the Library Honours project, Dr Jill Margerison and Mr Andrew Stark have undertaken a research project in conjunction with the International Boys’ School Coalition focusing on creativity and ‘affinity spaces’. This project has culminated in 22 Year 8 boys submitting a variety of different Library Honours projects in response to Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. The premise of this activity was Seymour Papert’s thesis that ‘real’ learning comes through ‘making’. During this action-research process it was most rewarding to see the boys flourish through collaborative, conversational and creative Maker spaces. Thank you to all the parents and educators who supported the boys to produce these Honours projects to such a high standard this year.
YEAR 7 GIFTED AND TALENTED SEATED:
B.P. VERTULLO, B.A. OWEN, MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, MS J.E. INGLIS, T. FUJII, A.H. URBAIN
SECOND ROW: S.J. BOWEN, W.J. PURCELL, C.D. LOCKETT, J.B. WALDEN, A.H. TIMONEY, B.S. BOTTING, J.T. SMITH, T.H. MCCORMACK, J.W. GAULT THIRD ROW:
A.R. MILLS, A.A. KITCHIN, D.M. ROBERTSON, R.E. MURPHY, M.K. MANLEY, T.P. OXENFORD, S.N. STEVENS, T.A. SCOTCHMER, D. LIU
ABSENT:
S.(R) KIM, F.M. LANE, N.L. NEAL, S.C. THOMPSON, M.J. WOOD
SEATED:
T.D. EDMUNDS, A.J. BETTLES, MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, MS J.E. INGLIS, S. H. MCMATH, H. CHEN
YEAR 8 GIFTED AND TALENTED
SECOND ROW: E.J. KRAVCHENKO, C.J. DOUYERE, C. TRAN, C. SCOTT, M. JIANG, F.J. DONALD, J. BOLTON, S.A. VAHIDY, T.J. NICHOLSON, C.T. CORBETT, W.O. TIMONEY
Gifted and Talented and Honours students continue to be afforded multiple opportunities to help them flourish both socially, emotionally and academically. Through commitment to advocacy, ongoing research, flexible programming, positive parent and teacher communication, connections with the local and international Gifted and Talented community, invaluable ongoing professional learning for administrators and staff it is hoped that gifted students will systematically be afforded the opportunity to transform their gifts into talents over time.
THIRD ROW:
D.R. CONNOLLY, X.C. DOERR, C.J. PILCHER, F.M. BAILDON, E.M. MAHON, T.C. WRIGHT, T.Z. ZHANG, J. MARIANI, T.H. FUHRMANN
ABSENT:
J.R. DWYER, B.T. FUNNELL, H.T. KNUDSEN, T. ZHU
YEAR 9 GIFTED AND TALENTED SEATED:
W.O. LAYT, I. JACKSON-FREDERICKSON, MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, MS J.E. INGLIS, R.J. DAVUI, J.G. GRAY
SECOND ROW: A. MENON, C.C. YOUNG, A.P. GERAGHTY, F.B. FOULDS-COOK, J.E. CHAPMAN, O.J. HALL, F. CHEN, K. JO, F.F. KROON THIRD ROW:
J.L. DWYER, D.R. LEON, J.A.D. ROGELJA, R.A. MCCULLOUGH, A.M. NELSON, O.A. BUTLER, H.E. GREEN, H.M. GREEN, V. NEDUNCHEZHIAN
FOURTH ROW: L.M. READ, T.J. NORVOCK, T.M. ALLAN, T. SHERLINE, C.L. KENNEDY-LEVERETT, O.S. DENNIS, F.J. MARONEY-VITA, J.S. PHILLIPS, C.G. CLEGG ABSENT:
R.C. GALL, O.C. HAYEK, J.P. HUTCHISON, J.H. JOHNSTONE, J.T. RUTHERFORD, K.A. RUTHERFORD, O.J. SHERRAH, T.A. TREMAIN, E.J. VAN DER VEGT, M.P. VERTULLO, Z. ZHENG
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