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Top Student Successes
Congratulations to our students for their outstanding successes across sports, cultural and academic areas.
ACA D E M I C
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS: 83 awarded
ICAS: 6 Medals – Mathematics and Science
MATHEMATICS: World Champions International Mathematical
Modeling Challenge Winner CMA Year 12 Competition Winner Year 9 Cantamath
FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING: World Championships Runner Up Middle Division and Top 10 Year 9 Team National finals – four teams qualified SPEECH AND DRAMA: Winner National Young Performer Competition VEX ROBOTICS: Canterbury Champions CHESS: Winner Canterbury Schools CREATIVE WRITING: Runner Up National Schools Poetry Award BIOLOGY: New Zealand Biology Olympiad Silver Award NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES: 10 Recipients
2022
JAZZ BANDS: Gold Award ARA Jazzquest Soul Band DEBATING: Winner Canterbury Senior Regionals Runner Up Canterbury Junior Regionals Winner Canterbury Impromptu Cup PIPE BAND: Best Pipe Band Hororata Highland Games BALLET: 2 NZAMD Ballet Scholarship Nominees 4 NZAMD Ballet Distinctions 2 NZSOD Associate Dancer 10 Excellence Awards 6 Senior Ballet Diplomas HIGHLAND DANCE: New Zealand Champion – U18 DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S HILLARY AWARD: 13 Gold Awards
NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES: 10 Recipients
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C ULT U R E
SONGWRITING Winner and four finalists Play It Strange
Songwriting Competition Runner Up Play it Strange 2022 Lyric Award Winner APRA Lyrics Award Smokefree Rockquest CHORAL: NZSS Choir member ROWING: Winner NZSS Girls U17 Double Silver NZSS Girls U17 Quad Silver NZSS Springbok Shield Winner SISS Boys U18 Eight SISS Championships 9 podium finishes HOCKEY: Runner Up NZSS Boys 1st XI Rankin Cup Winner Canterbury Secondary Schools Boys’ 1st XI Winner CPSSA Mixed 1st XI
CHAMBER MUSIC: Runner Up NZCT Chamber Music Contest (combined group) ORCHESTRA: NZSS Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster plus 5 students ROCK BAND: Battle of the Bands national finalists Winner RockQuest Canterbury Best Use of Electronic Assist
College Productions
Greatest Hits (Ballet Academy) Antoinette’s Showstoppers (Middle) Songs for a New World (Senior) Outstanding Cultural Celebrations
BASKETBALL: Runner Up NZSS Girls Senior A Winner SISS Girls Senior A Winner Division 1 Girls Whelan Trophy Winner CPSSA Boys A Team NETBALL: NZSS Top 12 Senior A Runner Up SuperNet Senior A Runner Up SISS Junior Tournament Year 9 A Winner ISSA Preparatory School FOOTBALL: NZSS Championship Girls 1st XI Top 5 Winner Canterbury Schools Girls 1st XI Winner ISSA Preparatory School Values and Culture EQUESTRIAN: Winner SISS Equestrian Championship Team Winner Canterbury Secondary School Teams Dressage Trophy 41 TENNIS: Winner SISS Senior Boys ADVENTURE RACING: Runner Up SISS Senior Mixed Team Runner Up NZSS Mixed Team Regulus SKIING Winner SISS Girls Team and Female Slopestyle Winner CPSSA Primary, Years 1–6, Intermediate and Snowboarding Winner ISSA Primary Co-ed Years 1–6, Intermediate
Co-ed, Intermediate Fastest Boy and Primary Girl SWIMMING: SISS Championships 35 podium finishes NZSS Championships 11 podium finishes ATHLETICS: NZSS Championships – 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze (Dec 2021) SISS Championships – 10 gold, 4 silver, 11 bronze TRAP SHOOTING: NZSS Top 4 Winner NZSS High Gun National Champion Winner SI Ladies Skeet
ZONTA AWARDS: Winner Category 1 and 6 Highly Commended Category 1 and 5 –
Boys 1st XI hockey and Girls Senior A basketball NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES: 21 Recipients