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In February the school acknowledged our top achievers from 2016 at our Academic Honours assembly. To receive an Honours award a student must gain an excellence endorsement for their NCEA with at least 60 credits at excellence or with at least 2 subjects endorsed at excellence.

We were thrilled that there were 57 recipients this year:

Level 1 Academic Honours:

Elise Barlow

Rachel Brebner

Teri Dawson

Eli Dunn

Jasmin Dunn

Jackson Fowler

McKenzie Frear

Duncan Hendry

Ronan Hendry

Parisa Khodabandeh

Ethan Mackay

Hannah Mahon

Jemma Main

Grace McColgan

Emma McDonnell

Jordan Oxenham

Estera Paul

Brianna Perkins

Jessica Phayer

Jessica Robinson

Lilli Scott

Jessica Skudder

Abigail Speight

Thomson, Caitlin

Treanor, Jessica

Daisy Vahey-Bourne

William Warnock

Christina Zingel

Level 2 Academic Honours

Emma Abbot

Ella Akkerman

Breanna Brooker

Millie Burton

Jack Cameron

Grace Egan

Millie Elliott

Brendan Fletcher

Brianna Gauldie

Petra Gough

Petra Granitzer

Aileen Harwood

Alexander Hawkes

Olivia Hooper

Lucy Houghton

Samantha Johnson

Emily Kellett

Loretta Knights

Phoebe MacIntyre

Sophie McCulloch

Olivia McManaway

Natasha Read

Jarod Schneebeli

Josef Schuler

Lily Smythe

Torben Stovold

Isobel Straffon

Charlotte Strang

Sam Wylie

Our speaker for the event was Jonathan Barnard (Aquinas College 2005 – 2011).

In 2016 Jonathan won a prestigious Woolf Fisher scholarship to study his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University. His proposed research will involve investigating the dynamics and reactivity of underwater methane plumes from deep sea methane hydrate deposits and will contribute towards solving global warming and the energy crisis.

He has a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours, majoring in Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering from Massey University.  He studied at Aquinas College in Tauranga and is currently working in a safety and risk engineering position with Worley Parsons, an engineering company, in New Plymouth.

Jonathan has held a number of leadership roles including captaining the 1st XI football team, and last year was the National Chair of Student Engineers New Zealand, reporting to the CEO of the Institute of Professional Engineers.

Jonathan spoke to our students about his time at Aquinas College and urged them to be fully involved in school life. He let students know that it is never too late to adapt and pick up new learning – recounting his experience with picking up Calculus in his final year at school. He also encouraged our students in relation to the school touchstones – particularly the touchstone of Service. Jonathan recounted his involvement with the Fiji service trip and how it had opened his eyes to the needs of those less fortunate and the opportunities that we have in New Zealand. It was a real pleasure to have Jonathan return to address our students and we wish him all the best in his future studies.

The photo is of Jonathan Barnard receiving his Woolf Fisher award with the Chair of the Woolf Fisher Trust, Sir Noel Robinson

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