Scholars and Honours Board
A special feature of this school is its magnificent academic record. The primary focus of Auckland Grammar School is academia - every other aspect of school life is secondary to this.
The first lines of our mission states:
"Auckland Grammar School will provide young men with a rigorous academic education. Each young man is expected to pursue excellence in acquiring knowledge and skills while upholding the School's values."
The list of young men below deserve recognition for academic excellence in 2019. It is important to the very being of this school that we celebrate academia in the manner we do.
Performance in Cambridge A level examinations and Scholarship examinations or equivalents in different decades of our history, have provided the benchmark indicators for inclusion on the prestigious honours boards that frame this hall.
The Honours Boards that surround our Great Hall are symbolic of the School's academic mission and inclusion on them is rigorously earned. They recognise top academic performers through our School’s history. Students who sat NZ Scholarship examinations and gained three or more scholarships are included on the honours board and both Cambridge and Scholarship results will be recognised in individual student citations read today.
The school through time has used external examinations as its benchmark. Because of their competitive nature and the all-round standard of attainment needed for success, these examinations inevitably favour young men who have been committed to their studies and have built resilience.
The group of young men we honour today are top academic students from a talented Form 7 and 6A & B who were part of the make-up that earned this school its position as a top performing Cambridge School with 12 special awards in Cambridge examinations, which included:
- 1 Top in the World Award
- 6 Top in New Zealand Awards
- 4 High Achievement Awards
- And N.J Chen Best Performance in NZ Across 4 AS Levels
There is no doubt this supports our vision: 'pre -eminence in boys' secondary education.'
It is appropriate on this occasion, in the Great Hall, that we recognise our past – the foundation on which academic success continues to be built. There are many distinguished scholars who studied at Grammar and later received higher honours and academic recognition. Eminent scholars like Sir Peter Gluckman, Vaughan Jones, Peter McNaughton, Keith Hunter, Mark Warner and many others who have made contributions across a myriad of fields.
It is indeed a feature of Auckland Grammar School that the Honours Boards are around the hall and that we meet here daily, - this symbolises the primary place that academia has in our School and is well-respected by our Old Boy community and the general public.
Entry onto this list is restricted to the top 10% of the entire Form 7 cohort plus 6A and 6B. The lowest average mark on the Honours Board for 2019 is 89.00%.
A number of scholars have earned scholarships into NZ universities and many have gained direct entry into overseas universities. This is testament to the calibre of these young men and the support given to them by masters throughout their tenure at Auckland Grammar School.
My thanks to our masters for their commitment to providing rigorous academic courses and pathways, on call mentoring and tutoring that has aided the level of success celebrated today.
Given these young men will have their names on the University Entrance Scholars Board in 2019, our sesquicentenary year, it’s appropriate to share the closing lines of Mr Moses’ 150th Toast to Auckland Grammar School: He shared the advice Sir John Graham, 9th Headmaster of this School offered the students at the end of 1976.
He said:
“Start thinking about what you want to do, don’t aim for the middle, aim for the top, and the top is not necessarily playing for New Zealand in sport, or being the top accountant or lawyer or heart surgeon. Aiming for the top means aiming for your personal best. It is not unhealthy to aim high; it is not unhealthy to be ambitious, but it is folly not to do your best. If you aim to do your best, you will be well along the way to making life the fun and challenge it should be.”
We wish each of the young men the very best with their chosen studies in 2020 and their future careers.
Click here to watch the 2020 Scholars' Assembly in full, including guest speaker Dr Alastair MacCormick's address.
2019 Scholars:
|
Name |
Percentage scored and Scholarships |
Extracurricular Activities |
Area of study in 2020 |
|
R.L.M. Zerda |
3 Scholarships |
Fencing |
A Conjoint BA/BGlobalSt at the University of Auckland. |
|
S.K. Verryt |
3 Scholarships |
Chronicle Committee |
A Conjoint LLB/BCom majoring in Economics at Victoria University. |
|
T.D. Speir |
3 Scholarships |
Duke of Edinburgh Gold/Silver |
2020 Gap year
|
|
A.C.K. Kwan |
3 Scholarship |
Asian Cultural Group Tutoring |
A BE at the University of Auckland. |
|
L.Y.F. Bao |
3 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Group Tutoring |
7A in 2020. |
|
T.Y. Chi |
3 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Group |
A Bachelor Fine Arts - Film and Television at the New York University. |
|
S.T. Miller |
4 Scholarships |
Chronical Committee |
7A in 2020. |
|
M. He |
3 Scholarships with 1 Outstanding |
Asian Cultural Group |
7A in 2020 |
|
W.Q. Zheng |
2 Scholarship with 2 Outstanding |
Asian Cultural Group |
7A in 2020. |
|
M.W. Palmer |
5 Scholarships with 2 Outstanding |
Board of Trustees Student Representative |
Currently working for the Parliament Service
|
|
A. Liu |
89% 2 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Group |
A BBiomedSc at the University of Auckland. |
|
H. Xu |
89% 3 Scholarships |
Bridge |
7A in 2020. |
|
M. Yang |
89.33% 1 Scholarship |
Badminton |
A BE at the University of Auckland. |
|
M.P. Sonar |
89.33% 2 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Tutoring |
A Conjoint BE/BCom at the University of Auckland. |
|
K.Y. Liu |
90% 1 Scholarship |
Asian Cultural Group |
7A in 2020. |
|
O. Lin |
90% 2 Scholarships |
Athletics |
A Conjoint BE/BA at the University of Auckland. |
|
H. Zhang |
90% 3 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Group Diabolo |
A BE(Hons) at the University of Auckland. |
|
K.J. Daji |
90.33% 3 Scholarships |
Cricket 1st XI |
A BCom/Bachelor of Advanced Studies at the University of Sydney. |
|
D.D Xu |
90.67% 1 Scholarship |
Asian Cultural Groups |
A BSc/Bachelor of Advanced Studies at the University of Sydney. |
|
A.P. Gutschlag |
90.67% 1 Scholarship |
Asian Cultural Group |
A BBiomedSc at Monash University, Australia. |
|
P. Zhang |
91% 1 Scholarship |
Asian Cultural Group Tutoring |
A Conjoint LLB/BCom at the University of Auckland. |
|
A.K. O'Callahan |
91% 1 Scholarship with 1 Outstanding |
Badminton |
A Conjoint BE/BSc at the University of Auckland. |
|
S. Viswakarma |
91% 3 Scholarships with 1 Outstanding |
Cricket |
A Conjoint BE/BSc at the University of Auckland. |
|
L. Kim |
91.6% 1 Scholarship |
Football |
Planning to study Engineering either in the USA or Australia. |
|
L.M. Creed |
92.33% |
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze |
A Conjoint BA/BSc at the University of Auckland |
|
D. Zhu |
92.67% 6 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Group |
A Conjoint BE/BCom at Monash University. |
|
X. Zhang |
93% 1 Scholarship |
Proceres Grammatici |
Studying Computer Science & Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. |
|
J.J. Kennard |
93.33% 1 Scholarship |
Basketball |
A Conjoint BE(Hons)/BCom at the University of Auckland. |
|
E.Z.A. Zhang |
93.4% 1 Scholarship |
Debating |
7A in 2020. |
|
C. Abi Nakad |
93.67% 2 Scholarships with 1 Outstanding |
Amnesty International |
A BAdvSci(Hons) at the University of Auckland. |
|
K. Zheng |
93.67% 7 Scholarships |
Asian Cultural Tutoring |
Undecided. |
|
L. A. Wong |
94.67% 1 Outstanding Scholarship |
Adventure Racing |
A Conjoint LLB/Bachelor Econimics at the University of Sydney. |
|
N.J. Chen |
95.8% 4 Scholarships with 1 Outstanding |
Asian Cultural Group Tutoring Leader |
7A in 2020. |