King Electorate Kindness Awards

Ms LUETHEN (King) (15:12): Today, I wish to talk about and recognise the terrific and inspiring students who have really stood out for displaying kindness in our schools in 2020. This is timely because it is Random Acts of Kindness Week. The year 12 classes of 2020 across King have proven their resilience, recording results as strong as in any other year.

I wish to congratulate all the primary school and high school students in my electorate and the state of South Australia on doing their best in what was a very challenging year. I wish to provide a special mention to local young man Trent Heaver from King's Baptist Grammar School, who was one of the 28 students in the state to receive a commendation from His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC, Governor of South Australia.

But back to spreading kindness as well. Thank you to our local schools that collaborated with me to again look out for remarkable young people in our community actively spreading kindness. What a school year 2020 was; kindness was certainly needed. Thank you to our amazing teachers, school governing councils, support staff and volunteers for all your efforts to look for and highlight to me examples of kindness so that we can really reinforce this in our community.

Although understandable given the circumstances, it was still sad not to be able to present and celebrate with our students and with school staff, parents and grandparents in recognition assemblies as we normally would. The following are students who received a King Kindness Award from me in recognition of acts of kindness in 2020. From the Tyndale Christian School, I would like to acknowledge the following students and volunteers: in the junior school, Ava Baggaley; in the middle school, Charlize Branscheid; for the middle school volunteer awards, Kristin Wilhelm and Susan Harvey; and for the year 12 RISE (Respect Integrity Service Excellence) Award, Jacob March.

From the Salisbury East High School, I would like to acknowledge the following students: in year 8, Ashley Bain; in year 9, Timmoney Cotton; and in year 12, Ammal Basnet. From the Salisbury Park Primary School, I would like to acknowledge two year 7 students, Kiara Hewitt and Paige Jones. Both these students, I am told, were so incredibly kind to other students that they could not pick one person.

From Pedare Christian College, I would like to acknowledge the following students: in junior school, Naavi Chheoum; in the middle school, Santi Vargas Zuluaga; and year 12 student Liliana Carletti. I apologise if my pronunciation is not quite right for any of these students' names.

From Gleeson College, I would like to acknowledge the following students: in year 10, Molly Bennett; in year 11, Jack Hutchins; and in year 12, Eloise O'Neill. From Golden Grove High School, I would like to acknowledge the following students: in year 8, Aiva Edwards; in year 9, Thomas Lee; in year 10, Ronan Seal; in year 11, Emmanuel Wary; and in year 12, Georgia Woolley.

I am so pleased to note today that the outstanding results were able to be celebrated in person last week at Golden Grove High School, congratulating the class of 2020. Your future is certainly bright. Congratulations to Angela Harris on achieving dux. It was great to be inspired at the presentations by the 2019 dux, Alex Carey. Peter Kuss, the principal, told us that Golden Grove High School achieved a 100 per cent SACE completion across general and modified SACE for the first time in a very long time, in such a challenging year.

The class of 2020 results were exceptional across the King electorate, and I commend you all. I thank the teachers, the leadership teams and the volunteers at our school, and I thank everyone for inspiring the students to do so well. Mr Speaker, thank you for the opportunity today to speak about our King schools' leaders in kindness, our academic achievers and the dux at the Golden Grove High School. I look forward to continuing to recognise, spread and encourage kindness in our schools in 2021 and to seeing even more outstanding results.