Academic Awards
Highest Academic Achiever 2021
The ‘Celebration of Achievement’ evening acknowledges the outstanding academic achievements of Year 7 to 11 students based on their academic results over the whole year.
These students are celebrated for their achievements and recognised for being in the top 5% of their year level and were presented with Academic Achievement awards.
One student from each year level is announced as the Highest Academic Achiever and go on to grace the Honour Board in the Mary Dalton Hall.
The following students were recognised as the Highest Academic Achiever in their year level in 2021:
Year 7 Rhiannan Marie-Jeanne | |
Year 8 Elisa Humphrey | |
Year 9 Caitlyn Singleton | |
Year 10 Hayley Meure | |
Year 11 Kasey Thompson |

VCE and VCAL Academic Excellence and Endeavour Awards 2021
The Academic Excellence Awards are presented to one student from each VCE Unit 3/4 course of study. The recipient of each of these awards has achieved the highest results for school-based assessment tasks.
The Academic Endeavour Awards are presented to students from each class of each VCE Unit 3/4 course of study. The recipients of these awards have consistently demonstrated determination, grit and persistence.
We congratulate the following students who received Academic Excellence Awards and Academic Endeavour Awards in 2021:
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Data Analytics
Excellence – Evelyn Ferreira
Endeavour – Alexandra Comey
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES
Food Studies
Excellence – Shawnee Balogh
Endeavour – Jasmine Young
Product Design and Technology
Excellence – Caitlin Larson
Endeavour – Mary Sakkas
ENGLISH
English
Excellence – Madison McCahon
Endeavour – Ashleigh Clark, Rebecca Foster, Kara Miwa-Dale, Maria Race, Rosin Tobin and Ellen Young
English Language
Excellence – Samantha Xu
Endeavour – Laura Mitchell
Literature
Excellence – Rosie Egan
Endeavour – Eliza Patterson
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Health and Human Development
Excellence – Ellen Young
Endeavour – Carli Baulch, Laura Mitchell and Teresa Peters
Physical Education
Excellence – Chloe Toth
Endeavour – Madison McCahon
VCE VET Certificate III in Sport and Recreation
Excellence – Maya Dear (Year 11, 2021)
Endeavour – Victoria Goulas (Year 11, 2021)
HUMANITIES
Business Management
Excellence – Sarah Molin
Endeavour – Emily Crick and Phoebe Standfield
Global Politics
Excellence – Rosin Tobin
Endeavour – Grace Myles
History Revolutions
Excellence – Rebecca Foster
Endeavour – Charlotte Pullbrook
Legal Studies
Excellence – Phoebe Standfield
Endeavour – Ciara Mansbridge and Ellen Young
LANGUAGES
Italian
Excellence – Laura Mitchell
Endeavour – Laura Cussigh
Japanese
Excellence – Samantha Xu
Endeavour – Kara Miwa-Dale
MATHEMATICS
Further Mathematics
Excellence – Madison McCahon
Endeavour – Shawnee Balogh, Sophia Bryant, Hannah Salisbury and Pippa White
Mathematical Methods
Excellence – Georgia Poulier
Endeavour – Ashleigh Clark and Ellen Young
Specialist Mathematics
Excellence – Rosaline Thong
Endeavour – Georgia Poulier
PERFORMING ARTS
Dance
Excellence – Ella Bater (Year 11, 2021)
Endeavour – Erin Carroll (Year 11, 2021)
Drama
Excellence – Jaz Brown (Year 11, 2021)
Endeavour – Shannen Carty (Year 11, 2021)
Music
Excellence – Ellie Carter
Endeavour – Francesca Malignaggi (Year 11, 2021)
SCIENCE
Biology
Excellence – Madison McCahon
Endeavour – Erin Carroll (Year 11, 2021), Alice Merchant (Year 11, 2021) and Angelina Stefanopoulos (Year 11, 2021)
Chemistry
Excellence – Georgia Poulier
Endeavour – Madison McCahon and Sarah Molin
Physics
Endeavour – Charlotte Lowe
Excellence – Eliza Patterson
Psychology
Excellence – Skye Zhu-Maguire
Endeavour – Shawnee Balogh, Francesca Malignaggi (Year 11, 2021) and Eleanor Mansell
VISUAL AND CREATIVE ARTS
Art
Excellence – Rebecca Foster
Endeavour – Holly Sutherland
Media
Excellence – Charlotte Pullbrook
Endeavour – Maria Race
Studio Arts
Excellence – Kellie Palatino
Endeavour – Eliza Rogers
Visual Communications Design
Excellence – Phoebe Standfield
Endeavour – Claire Brown
VICTORIAN CERTIFICATE OF APPLIED LEARNING
Excellence – Teagan Hyland
Endeavour – Jerzie Vernall