2011 Prime Minister’s Award Announced

Friday, 27 April 2012, 1:52 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government

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

ENDS

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