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.

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.

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

YEAR 8 GIFTED AND TALENTED

SEATED: T.D. EDMUNDS, A.J. BETTLES, MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, MS J.E. INGLIS, S. H. MCMATH, H. CHEN 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 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

YEAR 10 GIFTED AND TALENTED

SEATED: T.J. BEASLEY, MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, MS J.E. INGLIS, H.A. WHEATON SECOND ROW: Z.B. MERRION, J.T. LAYT, R. SHIM, T.J. HURFORD ABSENT: L.T. BROWN, C.T. KALINOWSKI, F.H. LANE, B.P. MANCHESTER, L.C. OXENFORD, W.E. SCHWARER, R.F. SMITH, E.C.WATSON HONOURS SOCIETY

SEATED: MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, V. NEDUNCHEZHIAN, F.B. FOULDS-COOK, MS J.E. INGLIS SECOND ROW: J.A. ROGELJA, S. COOKSON-BUTLER, J.C. BEHN-KATZ ABSENT: R.F. SMITH

YEARS 8, 9 AND 10 HONOURS

SEATED: T.E. CORBETT, C.J. DOUYERE, T.D. EDMUNDS, J.G. GRAY, MS J.E. INGLIS, MRS A.M. FOULDS-COOK, W.O. LAYT, H. CHEN, S.H. MCMATH, J.A. BRUNSKILL SECOND ROW: D. LEVENDAKIS, C. TRAN, H.T.M. KNUDSEN, K.A. RUTHERFORD, Z.A. MAHER, C. SCOTT, K.K. BLIGH, H.P. WALLER, S.A. VAHIDY, J. CHIU, D.M. BOWEN, W. CHIU, S.G. HICKSON, J.G. RUTHERFORD, L.Z. SAMPSON THIRD ROW: K.D. DOSHI, J.D. WILLIAMS, S.D. FINLAYSON, F.B. FOULDS-COOK, Y.T. YAN, V. NEDUNCHEZHIAN, A.W. COWAN, A.R. MURRAY, O.J. HALL, C.C. YOUNG, K. JO, F. CHEN, T. ZHU FOURTH ROW: J.J. MOSS, N. TSE, A.P. GERAGHTY, F.H. LANE. R.L. BRIGGS, H.E. GREEN, J.M. KNOX, A.L. SOUTHWOOD, T.B. ZHENG, T.A. REDLER, J.N. LEE, N.H. LEE, W.L. FINCH, S. LIU, E.J. VAN DER VEGT, K. MAIPAKA FIFTH ROW: J.E. CHAPMAN, R.A. MCCULLOUGH, T.H. MIN, A.M.S. NELSON, P.A. BALDRY, J.F. MORE, S. WOOD, H.A. WHEATON, R. WOOD, N.L. LADNER, M.C. MACKENZIE, O.A. BUTLER, E.M. SHIELDS, D.R. LEON, S.A. MOFFAT, L.M. READ, J.P. WOODS SIXTH ROW: J.A. ROGELJA, P.N. MURTAGH, J.M. CLYNE, J.S. PHILLIPS, C.J. PILCHER, B.R. PAXTON-HALL, V. NIKITIN, S. GOADBY, E.M. MAHON, J.T. LAYT, M. MCCARTHY, B.J. FOORT, M.I. NOSKOV, J.A. JOHNSON, S.L. COOKSON-BUTLER, R. SHIM, T.J. NORVOCK, T.J. SHERLINE, X.C. DOERR