Top Student Successes - 2025

Congratulations to our students for their outstanding successes across sports, cultural and academic areas.

ACADEMIC

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS:

59 awarded

ICAS:

4 Medals – Year 7 Writing, Year 9 Mathematics and Science, Year 12 Science

BRAIN BEE:

Year 11 Runner Up South Island

SPELLING BEE:

National Champion and Runner Up

FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING:

3 Individuals and 3 Teams – National Finalists

CREATIVE WRITING:

National Schools Poetry Award – 2 Finalists

DECATHLON:

Year 9 NZ da Vinci Competition Winners,

Years 10 & 11 Runners Up

VEX ROBOTICS:

Year 8 Runners Up South Island VEX IQ Nationals

MATHEMATICS:

Year 9 Cantamath Winners

Year 12 Canterbury Competition Winners

SPEECH:

Ngā Manu Kōrero: Senior Māori Impromptu – Third

Years 5 & 7 Winners Rotary Christchurch Schools Competition

CULTURE

ORCHESTRA:

7 students NZSS Symphony Orchestra

PIPE BAND:

National Champions in Juvenile and Grade 2

U21 Solo Piping New Zealand Championship Runner Up

Northern Meeting, Inverness Junior U18 Champion

Oceania Solo Drumming Champion U18

NZ Young Piper of the Year Runner Up

5 students National Youth Pipe Band

ROCK BAND:

Rockquest Best Song

JAZZ BAND:

Gold Award Ara JazzQuest

3 Gold Awards MEFA Festival

CHORAL:

Big Sing Best Mixed Choir

2 students NZSS Choir

BALLET:

13 NZAMD Ballet Distinctions and Scholarships

NZAMD Ballet Scholarship Awards – 1st and 3rd place

SI Ballet Awards – Finalist and Scholarship Winner

New Zealand School of Dance – Ballet Associate

DEBATING:

Junior Regional Winners and Impromptu Runners Up CSS

HIGHLAND DANCE:

Winner New Zealand Championship Overall U16

and 6 U16 titles

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S HILLARY AWARD:

20 Gold awards

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES:

14 Recipients

CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS:

Music Festival

Film Fest

Dance Revue

Pipe Band StAC Attack

COLLEGE PRODUCTIONS:

The Sleeping Beauty (Ballet Academy)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Middle School)

Twelfth Night (Senior College)

SPORT

ROWING:

Boys U15 4+, Boys U15 2x Silver NZSS

Girls 17 8+ Bronze NZSS, Boys U17 4+ Bronze NZSS

SISS Championships – 6 Gold, 3 Bronze

HOCKEY:

Girls’ 1st XI Runners Up Nationals

Girls’ 1st Winners CSS

FUTSAL:

Junior Girls Winners Mainland Regionals

FOOTBALL:

Girls’ 1st XI Third NZSS Div 2

Primary Boys Winners CPSSA

BASKETBALL:

Girls Senior A Fifth NZSS

Girls Senior A and Junior Girls Winners NZSS Zone 4

Senior Girls 3x3 Runners Up NZSS

Senior Boys 3x3 Third NZSS

Preparatory Boys Winners and Girls Runners Up CPSSA

FLAG FOOTBALL:

U12 World Championships Fifth

NETBALL:

Senior A Fifth SISS

Year 9A Runners Up SISS Junior Tournament

VOLLEYBALL:

Senior A Girls Third NZSS

TOUCH:

Mixed Runners Up NZSS (Dec 2024)

TENNIS:

Senior Girls Fourth NZSS

Senior Girls Runners Up & Senior Boys Third SISS

ATHLETICS:

NZSS Championships – 1 Silver, 2 Bronze (Dec 2024)

SISS Championships – 12 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze

TRAP SHOOTING:

National Skeet Champion NZSS

Junior Single Rise Champion NISS

TRIATHLON:

16–19 Girls Tenth World Junior Championships

U16 Girls Winner SISS and NZSS

U19 Boys Third SISS

Year 8 Open Winner CPSSA

ADVENTURE RACING:

Open School Event Winner SISS

Open Men’s 2-day Team Third Coast to Coast

CRICKET:

Year 10 Winners SISS

SKI AND SNOW SPORTS:

Winner CSS Mixed Team

Mixed Ski Team Winners SISS

ISSA Primary Team Winners and

Intermediate Co-ed Team Runners Up

ROAD RACE:

Girls Year 9 & Senior Girls Runners Up CSS

MOUNTAIN BIKING:

SISS Championships – 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

SWIMMING:

CSS Championships 9 podium finishes

CROSS COUNTRY:

Year 9 Runner Up SISS

Junior Girls and U16 Boys team Winners

CANOE POLO:

Senior Open Winners SISS

GOLF:

Winners CSS

SQUASH:

Individuals Runner Up CSS

ZONTA AWARDS:

Winner Boys Category 2 – Football and Softball Referee

Highly Commended Girls Category 5 – Girls’ 1st XI Hockey

Highly Commended Girls Category 6 – Athletics, Rugby,

Basketball, Touch Rugby

NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES:

25 Recipients