Special prizes
Dux: Jingyi Mi. Proxime accesserunt: Selena Ballantyne and Annabelle Ritchie. Best all-round senior girl: Olivia Sycamore. Head prefect and courtesy, reliability and service: Alice Jones. Head of house, service to house: Lydia Shirley. Recognition deputy head girl: Olivia Sycamore and Margot Brown. Service to college: Jingyi Mi. Service and diligence: Ophelia Yeung. Diligence: Emily Thomas and Lily Cunningham. General helpfulness: Emily Ward. Spirit of Columba award service and diligence: Selena Ballantyne. Merit award service and diligence: Kate Truman.
Year 13
Excellence: Chloe Lai, Caroline Moratti, Zoe Sinclair, Olivia Sycamore (co-recipient young enterpriser of the year), Lily Van Buskirk (outstanding achievement visual arts), Ophelia Yeung. Merit: Kara Bethune, Margot Brown (excellence design and technology), Heidi Chin (excellence design), Sara Griffin, Eleanore Hamel, Camelia Harrison, Chanisara Nualyong (excellence accounting). Diligence: Olivia Anderson, Lily Cunningham, Kenzie Findlay, Megan Foley, Olivia Nuttall (endeavour visual arts), Courtney Shaw, Lydia Shirley, Brittany Spark, Emily Thomas, Yinuo Wang. Subject awards: Shana Au (most improved Esol); Selena Ballantyne (excellence French, German); Kate Campbell (excellence senior geography); Ella Harris (co-recipient excellence level 3 physical education); Jingyi Mi (excellence essay writing, mathematics with statistics); Simone Reid (diligence accounting, co-recipient young enterpriser of the year); Annabelle Ritchie (excellence digital technology, mathematics with calculus); Emily Ward (co-recipient excellence in photography); Christine Wierda (co-recipient excellence in photography).
Year 12
Outstanding achievement: Bethan Dunstone-Leitch, Ellena Khoo, Bianca Malcolm, Katerina Thompson. Excellence: Lucy Beres, Megan Guest, Jamie McAuslan, Mia Nevill. Merit: Brittany Bancroft, Isabelle Becconsall-Ryan, Clare Cocks, Bridget Collins (most outstanding research project in history year 11-13), Koei Lui, Zoe Murrell, Ella Porter, Tegian Tarapi, Callie Turner, Isabella Wood. Diligence: Corrie Anderson, Devon Familton, Margo Fowler, Abbey Hamilton, Miu Iida, Gracie Lamphee, Katie Morris, Zarah Read, Bridget Sim, Paige Stowell, Hannah White. Subject awards: Claire Yang (excellence digital technology).
Year 11
Outstanding achievement: Kate Truman (excellence digital technology, Ceta medal economics). Excellence: Lydia Christensen, Erin Dailey, Ghazal Dousti, Mikayla Gray, Lydia Joseph, Isabelle Keeling, Lucy Liebergreen, Sasha Meyer, Bethany Moody, Bridget Scott, Rooma Shailaj. Merit: Rose Abdul Aziz, Jeannie Corona, Regan Death, Holly Haig, Olivia Miller, Jaime Preston. Diligence across curriculum: Maya Berg, Erin Chittock, Sophie Cochrane, Sophie Cooper, Madeleine Cooper-Forster, McKayler Moore, Lilli Renner, Morgan Seal, Charlotte Smith, Anna Snow, Amy Waldburger.
Cultural awards
Lydia Joseph (excellence debating); Caitlyn McMillan (drama); Eleanore Hamel (consistent contribution school drama); Lily Rodger, Charlotte Hazlett (speech and drama); Mia Nevill (talent and enthusiasm piano); Molly Crighton (composition); Caroline Moratti (excellence senior drama); Annabelle Ritchie (service madrigal choir); Camelia Harrison (excellence performing arts); Lily Van Buskirk (senior arts achiever of the year); Emily Thomas (Southland boarder displaying citizenship, helpfulness, organisational skills and positive, hard-working attitude to study); Chloe Lai (deputy head librarian’s prize); Maisie Offen, Courtney Parks (service school canteen); Fiona Cannon (chapel prefect); Ching Man (Ophelia) Yeung (service junior school by senior pupil, excellence speech and communication international department); Josephine Williamson (service wind symphonia, school orchestra); Selena Ballantyne (debating, service board of trustees and school council); Jingyi Mi (runner-up senior arts achiever of year, musicianship, use of musical talents for school, head librarian’s prize, deputy chapel prefect).
Community service awards
Steps 1 and 2: Corrie Anderson.
Step 2: Ketaki Bagal, Megan Guest, Miu Iida, Lauren McNeill, Chanisara Nualyong, Zoe Sinclair, Ophelia Yeung, Shiqi Zhao.
Step 1: Ayhun Cho, Camelia Harrison, Shannon Inch, Ellena Khoo, Clara Kwon, Chloe Lai, Lily Newton, Erika Sachdev, Katerina Thompson, Amy Waldburger, Yinuo Wang, Claire Yang.
Sports awards
Ellie Duncan (excellence track athletics); Jamie McAuslan (best all-round field athlete); Macee Cuthbertson (most improved senior basketball); Milly Nesbit (most valuable basketball); Isabelle Becconsall-Ryan (senior cross-country champion); Ella Harris, Phoebe Swale (excellence and dedication cycling); Bridget Collins (contribution equestrian team); Grace Brosnahan (hockey); Mia Nevill (hockey); Charlotte Calder (achievement cricket); Laura Becker (dedication hockey); Clora Quinlan-Thompson (improved senior netball); Kenzie Findlay (service netball); Sara Griffin (rowing); Kate Campbell, Heidi Wright (most improved senior rowers); Ember McAughtrie (fastest Columba time Otago-Southland secondary schools’ downhill ski); Caitlin Robb (most improved soccer); Mikayla Gray (excellence soccer); Charlotte Calder (most committed player First XI); Devon Familton (dedication swimming); Annabelle Alloo (senior tennis doubles champion); McKayler Moore (excellence touch rugby); Zoe Flockton (contribution senior volleyball); Fiona Schultz (most improved water polo); Margot Darling (dedication coaching junior sport); Christine Wierda (excellence non-school sport or cultural activity); Ellie Duncan, Milly Nesbit (best all-round senior sportswomen); Lydia Shirley (integrity sport, most talented senior hockey); Libby Sycamore (most valuable water polo, service coaching sport); Lily Cunningham (senior athletics champion, 100m senior champion, senior A netball MVP, best all-round senior sportswoman); Rileigh Fields (senior tennis doubles and singles champion, badminton champion, service badminton); Caitlin Deans (dedication swimming, senior swimming champion, highest sporting achievement for 2016).
