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Grievance Debate

Mitchell Electorate School Award Ceremonies

Mr WINGARD (Mitchell) (15:10): I rise as someone who is incredibly passionate about his local community and especially passionate about the abilities of young people in my region, so it gives me great pleasure today to talk about some of their successes, highlighted by the recent award ceremonies at two of my local high schools. Firstly, I would like to talk about Seaview High School, where Penny Tranter is the principal. I went along to their graduation ceremony and it was a pleasure to be at the Flinders University Plaza, even though it was a little bit nippy, but it was great to see the award winners.

I would like to talk about a number of people, but unfortunately I cannot talk about everyone. Someone I was quite amazed by was Cosette Hoe, who won four subject awards for biology, chemistry, mathematical studies and physics, which I thought was quite an outstanding performance. She also won the academic excellence award for Seaview High School. If that was not impressive enough, Michelle Florensia won five subject awards for business and enterprise, ESL studies, mathematical studies, music and physics, which was an outstanding performance. She was also recognised with the International Student Award.

Well done also to Xavier House, the senior school sports award winner. Jake Beaumont was emcee, along with Rachel Rattus. Rachel, who won the research project award, is one of the school presidents, as is Jake, and on the night they did an outstanding job holding it all together. Jake also won three awards: the Student Leadership Award, the Caltex All-Rounder Award and the Long Tan Year 12 Award.

Well done and congratulations also to the other outstanding year level award winners: Casey Johnson, the year 8 award winner; Jessica Carroll and Brett Stephanos, who could not be separated and were joint year 9 award winners; Anna Stretcher, year 10 award winner; and Crystal Menadue won the year 11 award. I presented the year 9, 10 and 11 awards, and it was a great honour to do that. There are some great young people in our community there.

I would also like to mention the Brighton valedictory and presentation evening. Again, it was a pleasure to be invited along to present an award to a number of outstanding award winners. Olivia O'Neill is the principal of Brighton Secondary School. Jordan Sims was dux of the school and won two subject awards for biology and chemistry. The Caltex Best All-Rounder, the Eric Donders Memorial Award, the Global Citizenship and Community Award and the Year 12 Academic Excellence Award went to Marcus Falckh.

The Year 12 Recognition Award went to Brian Lian, which was an outstanding performance. As an old scholar, I got to present the Old Scholars Award. Christopher McDonald also won the Head of Music Award, the Outstanding Achievement in Music Award, Stage 2 Subject Award winner for solo performance, music. The Spirit of ANZAC Award, Service to Volleyball and the Special Interest Volleyball Performance Award went to Katie Gardner.

The Long Tan Award, Year 12 Academic Excellence Award, Stage 2 Subject Award winner in health was Shamaya James-Bishop. Senior Sportspersons and Service to Sport was won by Nick de Vries and Sam Franson. The Head of Music Award, Year 12 Academic Excellence and Stage 2 Subject Award winner for musicianship was Katie Wong. Again, there were some sensational award winners.

Brighton also had a charities and recognition assembly, which I went to and at which again I was fortunate enough to present a couple of awards. It was wonderful to see the younger students coming through doing such great work. In particular, Connor Sampson, Michael Comino-Ewen, Zephyr Williams and Harrison McLeod were the comperes and did an outstanding job. Jye Thomson, who is from my footy team, did the welcome to country.

I can only mention a couple of awards, but I presented the Hindmarsh Shield to Nicole Kascak, who is in year 10; the Nancy Schupelius Award to Kiran Sachdev, who is in year 10; the Meredith Collins Award to Anna Woodley; and the Stewart Wallbank Memorial Prize to Hamish Petherick, who is also in year 10. The Freemasons presented an award, as did the Kiwanis, so there is a great community recognition. There was also a number of student program awards, and I offer my congratulations to all the winners.

In the time remaining, I would like to mention the primary schools in my area that have their award ceremonies coming up. Like many members in this place, I am sure that December is a very busy time, when there are a lot of presentations to go to. I would like to acknowledge that we had a Christmas card competition in my office, when we asked all the schools to draw a Christmas card of what Christmas means to them. Over 70 students from Darlington, Seaview Downs and Reynella primary schools entered the competition, and I thank them for doing that.

At Reynella Primary School, principal, Steve Freeman, and deputy, Michele Russell, had their twilight fair last Friday, which was very successful, and a number of other activities. At Reynella South School, principal, Jo Meredith, and deputy principal, Tracey Middleton, do an outstanding job. Once every few weeks, a number of students receive value recognition awards in recognition of their hard work throughout the year. Seaview Downs Primary School is getting underway preparing for its STEM space, and they are really looking forward to that.

The new principal there, Des Hurst, and governing council chair, Pauline Glover, are doing a marvellous job getting that school up and flying again. Seaview Downs Primary School as well had their twilight fair last Tuesday. Craig Fosdike is the principal at St Martin de Porres School and Jenny Engelhardt is the principal at Sheidow Park School. At Stella Maris Parish School, principal Sean Hill is doing a great job. I would like to say farewell to Brian Marshall, who is leaving Woodend Primary School. He has done a great job over his time. I will also mention Darlington Primary School principal, Kathryn Entwistle, for the great job she does there.

Time expired.

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