2016 Dux Awarded Full Scholarship to Melbourne University

Congratulations to our 2016 Dux, Ngan Giang Vuong, who has been awarded a 100% International Undergraduate Fee Remission Scholarship to Melbourne University.   The scholarship is awarded by the University in recognition of her excellent academic results.  Giang will study for a Commerce Degree.  This is an amazing achievement and a great reward for all her hard work.  

Two Top Scholars for AGGS

The results of the Scholarship Examinations, which are the most challenging exams of the NZ examination system have just been announced.
We are delighted that two of our students are the two top scholars in their respective subjects in the entire country:
Tara Parsons—Outstanding Scholarship and top scholar in NZ for Art History and
Foa Samuelu—Outstanding Scholarship and top scholar in NZ for Samoan
Both of these girls will be invited to attend a ceremony at Government House to receive their awards which will include a cash prize.
Congratulations too to our other Scholarship winners:
Ally Orr—3 scholarships in Biology, Art History and Media Studies
Vivian Chhan—2 scholarships in Biology
and Physics
Louise Matthews—2 scholarships in Painting and an Outstanding Scholarship in Art History
Victoria Murphy—2 scholarships in English and Biology
Tamkeen Saeid—1 scholarship in Classical Studies and
Sophie Yu—1 scholarship in Biology
At Senior Prizegiving last year AGGS senior students received approximately $280,000 in scholarships and grants to assist them with their tertiary studies in 2017.

2017 Prefects

At Prizegiving, the Principal announced that our 2017 Head Girl is Vienna Trainor and Scarlett Parkes and Chant’e Leafa, will be our Deputy Head Girls in 2017. Here is the full list of prefects for 2017. Congratulations to all these young women. 

SENIOR PRIZEGIVING 2016

On 4 November, the Dorothy Winstone Centre was filled with parents, staff, Board of Trustee members, special guests from Tertiary Institutions and our senior students for our Annual Senior Prizegiving Assembly. The ceremony began with a welcome powhiri from our Kapa Haka Group, Nga Tumanako o Kahurangi.

Our Principal, Ms Thomson’s, presented our school’s annual report on the progress of the school and students. This was Ms Thomson’s last Senior Prizegiving as Principal, as she is retiring at the end of this year and at the end of her presentation she was given a standing ovation.
The top academic awards in any school are the awards of Proxime Accessit and Dux and this year our Proxime Accessit is Victoria Murphy and our Dux is Ngan Gian Vuong.

At the end of the ceremony, our 2016 Head Girl, Tamiel Tagaloa and Deputy Head Girls, Nina Santos and Tamkeen Saeid gave moving addresses and these were followed by a rousing rendition of our School Song. 

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