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FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S PEN
Harry Mills, Sugar, Is it a drug and are we all Addicted? Wellington Medical Research Foundation Prize and Highly Commended Lachie O'Connor, Colour - Vision Deficiency in Hunters: NZ Association of Optometrists - Wellington Branch Marcus Millad, Chicken Nuggets: Cancer Society of New Zealand ICAS Science Competition This year has once again produced very positive results for the 153 Year 4—8 students from Wellesley College who sat this exam. It is sat by almost half a million students from NZ, Australia and the AsiaPacific regions. It assesses the students on a range of scientific skills including observing and measuring, interpreting data, inferring, predicting and concluding, investigating and reasoning and problem solving. We are delighted to acknowledge the achievements of 7 boys who scored exceptionally well by gaining a High Distinction, with another 26 receiving Distinction.
Richardson, who won a Prize for his score of 93/120 in the Year 6 section of the Competition. It needs to be confirmed, but it is likely Jesse scored the top mark in New Zealand in his year group. Six boys, Thomas Watkins, Pere Wi Rutene-Pomare, Luke Fuller, Isaac Ulusele, Jonathon Joyce and Tom Turner achieved High Distinctions (top 1%). A further four boys achieved Distinctions (top 15%). Those boys were Fergus Murray, Luke Whitehead, Harrison Stewart and Noah Wilkinson. A further 34 boys achieved Credits, with as many as 13 of those boys within 5 marks of a Distinction. Well done boys. Murray Blandford
Tournament of Minds
The results are as follows: High Distinctions (top 2% and above nationally) were awarded to: Max Abbot, Ben Stirling, Mika Denham, Hugh Morrison, Jesse Richardson, Nicholas McDermott and Jin Dassanayake Distinctions (Above the top 10% nationally) were awarded to: Tom Adams, Hugo Blair, Archie Chandler, William Chandler, Gabriel Giller, Ethan Henry, Damon Mavropoulos, William Durkin, George Lethbridge, Cameron McMahon, Ben Ross, Harry Williams, Tim Campbell, Campbell Clarke, Oliver Fletcher, Louis Gradwell, Alexander Plimmer, Matthew Sutcliffe, Edward Twomey, Tom Valentine, Andy Dowell, Harry Mills, Fergus Murray, Joseph Plunket, Harrison Stewart and Luke Whitehead. Another 55 students received Credit awards (top 30% nationally), while the rest gained a well deserved certificate in Participation. Kate Sinclair
We had four teams, two from Y7 and Y8 and two from Y5 and Y6 compete in this year’s final of the Tournament of Minds competition held at Hutt Intermediate on Saturday 8th September. All four teams aquitted themselves very well and the feedback from judges and parents was very positive. The boys too obviously enjoyed themselves and had worked hard for the previous six weeks preparing for their presentation to the judges. One team, our Y7 and Y8 Maths Engineering Team, comprising of Harry Mills, Felix Adler, Ben Mitchell, Luke Whitehead, Harrison Devane, Tom Valentine and Ciaran Sim, won their division. Congratula-
Mathswell team (Isaac, Luke, Tom, Harry, Fergus and Harrison)
Australian Mathematics Summary 51 boys from Mr Hampton’s, Mrs Norton’s and Mr Blandford’s groups sat the testing Australian Mathematics Competition in Term 3 and the results were very pleasing. The highlight had to be the result of Year 6 pupil, Jesse
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