Waitaki Girls’ High School senior prizegiving
Cultural awards
Hannah Acheson (contribution school music); Ella Harris (contribution to Oamaru Youth Orchestra).
Sports awards
Samantha Atley (trampoline senior champion); Quinn Plunkett (most talented rower); Paige Black (senior triathlon champion); Alice Petrie, Brylee Milmine and Lily Rawson (senior triathlon team champions); Mikayla Bryant (trap shooting champion); Jayda Loper (basketball most valuable player); Charlotte Weir (netball most outstanding senior); Charlotte Cunningham (hockey senior player of the season); Anna Onuma (most valuable volleyball player); Shelby Johnston (rugby player of the year); Mackenzie Phillips and Holly Rayne (badminton senior doubles champions); Mackenzie Phillips (badminton senior singles champion); Mackenzie Phillips and Jordyn Phillips (tennis senior doubles champions); Mackenzie Phillips (tennis senior singles champion).
Academic awards
Year 11
Tayla Adamson (2nd art); Charlotte Burke (2nd skills science); Shannon Burnett (2nd music); Ella Hamilton (2nd food and nutrition technology); Holly Harvey (2nd science); Danella McGrath (2nd transition); Charlotte Nichols (2nd geography); Mady Rawson (2nd history); Maddy Jones (2nd English alternative, 2nd mathematics for numeracy); Ella Phillips (diligence and progress, 2nd German); Taylar Keene (2nd business, 2nd digital technology); Holly Taylor (2nd health and physical education, 2nd textiles technology; Courtney Kershaw (1st skills science); Skyla Shaw (1st English alternative); Larissa Freeman (1st mathematics for numeracy); Lilian Tepper (1st agriculture); Esther Gbolagun (1st digital technology); Ellie Jorgensen (1st German); Sophie McMillanSinclair (1st art); Elena Stevenson (1st geography); Breanna Stewart (1st textiles technology); Stoney Baird (1st transition, 2nd Japanese); Jordyn Phillips (1st health and physical education, 2nd agriculture); Seannah Nuttall (1st history, 1st music, 2nd English, 2nd mathematics); Charlotte Wollstein (1st Japanese, 1st mathematics, 1st science); Katie Kinnaird (1st business, 1st English, 1st food and nutrition technology and the cup for academic excellence).
Year 12
Cleo Wilson (diligence and progress); Brooke Bennie (2nd dual pathway); Grace Kennedy (2nd textiles technology); Brooke Jones (2nd English alternative); Kowhai Te MoananuiGamble (2nd music); Vaiuku Tuipulotu Katoa (2nd transition); Emily Braid (2nd English); Kim Tran (2nd artpainting); Emily Lloyd (2nd German); Elisha Carter (2nd tourism); Brylee Milmine (2nd agriculture); Alex Campbell (2nd gateway, 2nd mathematics bridge); Alice Petrie (2nd food and nutrition technology, 2nd health and physical education, 2nd mathematics); DeArna Mooney (1st dual pathway); Paige Jones (1st transition); Shanade EvansHawtin (1st gateway); Sahara Geary (1st tourism); Mikayla Bryant (1st agriculture); Meghan Hay (textiles technology); Abbey Wilson (1st history); Nicole Cope (1st food and nutrition technology, 2nd digital technology); Maddison Marriott (1st accounting, 2nd chemistry); Lily Rawson (1st health and physical education, 2nd biology, 2nd geography); Sunny Childs (1st English alternative, 1st mathematics bridge); Jessica Cunningham (1st chemistry, 1st mathematics, 2nd physics); Harriet Melton (1st digital technology, 1st physics, 2nd economics); Jess Kelly (1st economics, 1st German, 2nd accounting, 2nd history, 2nd mathematics & statistics); Aurora Smyth (1st artpainting, 1st mathematics & statistics, 1st music, 2nd artdesign); Tilly King (1st artdesign, 1st biology, 1st English, 1st geography and the trophy for academic excellence).
Year 13
Holly Rayne (diligence and progress); Talia King (2nd transition); Bianca Roger (2nd music); Grace Ballantyne (2nd geography); Tyla Willans (2nd food and nutrition technology); Annah Brown (2nd art); Emily Weir (2nd classical studies); Jayda Loper (2nd German); Sophie Hawkins (diligence and progress, 2nd Net NZ agriculture); Shyla Geary (2nd accounting, 2nd dual pathway); Charlotte Cunningham (2nd gateway, 2nd textiles technology); Emma Borrie (2nd English, 2nd history); Chloe Clark (1st transition); Heather Paipuke (1st music); Lauren Moon (1st gateway); Trinity Bradford (1st accounting); Mackenzie Phillips (1st health and physical education); Louise Douglas (1st agriculture); Briony McGregor (1st textiles technology); Rea Wiebus (1st German, 2nd tourism); Alannah Taylor (1st tourism, 2nd digital technology); Madaleine Mansfield (1st digital technology, 2nd health and physical education, 2nd media studies); Libby Robb (1st dual pathway, 1st food and nutrition technology); Elizabeth Fountaine (1st art, 1st media studies); Ssai Sukumar (1st classical studies, 1st history, cup for humanities); Anna Onuma (1st biology, 1st geography, 2nd calculus, 2nd statistics); Hannah Acheson (1st English, 1st statistics, 2nd biology, 2nd chemistry, 2nd physics); Samantha Atley (1st calculus, 1st chemistry, 1st physics, prize for top science student).
Leadership awards
Libby Robb, Ella Harris (Burn house captains); Anna Onuma, Safiya Hunter (Ferguson house captains); Charlotte Weir, Tyla Willans (Gibson house captains); Madaleine Mansfield, Elizabeth Fountaine (Wilson house captains); Mackenzie Phillips (sports captain); Grace Ballantyne (cultural captain); Samantha Atley (careers captain); Aisha Pozzobon (health captain); Ssai Sukumar, Olivia Belt (peer support captains); Gemma Fitzgerald, Holly Rayne (Waitaki Way captains); Hannah Acheson (student representative — board of trustees); Annah Brown (head boarder); Laura Dunshea (deputy head girl); Emma Borrie (head girl).
Service awards
Charlotte Cunningham (canteen service); Aisha Pozzobon (senior school service); WGHS Health Committee (group effort); WGHS Enviro Club (service to the community), WGHS Enviro Club (conservation challenge).
Tertiary and special awards
Kayla AkurangiPirika (contribution to Maori culture); Macsyne Tauaa (Pasifika achievement and cultural contribution, Otago University scholarship); Safiya Hunter (Mana Pounamu Tuakana, Otago University Scholarship); Meadow Neill (Mana Pounamu Teina); Samara Ridgway (Masonic Charitable Trust tertiary award); Ssai Sukumar (Altrusa tertiary scholarship and Canterbury University scholarship); Elizabeth Fountaine (Zonta tertiary award, Otago University scholarship); Hannah Acheson, Samantha Atley, Laura Dunshea, Anna Onuma, Holly Rayne, Zoe Smith, Nelle Loper, Briony McGregor, Olivia Belt, Jayda Loper (Otago University scholarships); Jemma Buchanan, Brylee Lemm (farmers programme Award); Lauren Moon (vocational award); Annah Brown (Otago Polytechnic scholarship); Mackenzie Phillips (Futures Trust scholarship); Elizabeth Fountaine (allround excellence); Emma Borrie (cup and prize for leadership and two University of Canterbury scholarships), Sophie Hawkins (Iris Romans scholarship); Madaleine Mansfield (most inspiring senior in sport, essay competition scholarship); Jazmin Davidson, Gemma Fitzgerald, Madaleine Mansfield (Eunice Brown Trust scholarship).
Honours awards
Senior sports dux — Mackenzie Phillips; senior cultural dux — Hannah Acheson; proxime accessit — Anna Onuma; dux — Hannah Acheson.