Boys' Achievements

Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Awards

The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award is the world's leading achievement award for young people, bringing together practical experiences and life skills to create committed global citizens and equipping young people for life. It is very accessible to Scotch College students and anyone interested in starting the award is encouraged to see Mr Kyle.

The boys have shown commitment to a diverse range of skills and activities over a six month period. This brings the total number of boys to have completed the award this year to 22 Bronze Awards and two Silver Awards. On top of these achievements, we have two Year 12 students completing their Gold Awards.

The following boys have completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award:

Excellence in the Workplace Awards

Gold Status is awarded to Workplace Learning students who demonstrate a strong work ethic and outstanding enthusiasm and motivation each week when they attend their work placement. Gold Status also reflects exceptional diligence in meeting all the programme requirements including a very thorough and detailed logbook. As well as the high level of commitment shown in the workplace, students must also be committed to maintaining good grades in their school work and catching up on all work missed on the day they are in the workplace.

The following students are awarded Gold status for Excellence in the workplace:

World Scholars Cup

Earlier in the year Scotch College entered 10 teams into the Perth Round of the World Scholar's Cup. Three of those teams comprised boys from the Senior School and seven teams from the Middle School. The teams met every Friday afternoon in the BRC over Summer and Autumn Terms to prepare. This year we had two Year 11 boys, Drummond Orr (Year 11, Ferguson) and James Naylor-Pratt (Year 11, Anderson), coach the teams and lead the weekly study sessions.

All ten teams were entered into the 11 to 14 years age division.

The results were outstanding. So strong was the Scotch College contingent the organiser who was compering the awards ceremony announced the results for the over 15 year age group as, the non-Scotch division as we had dominated the 11 to 14 year age division. While boys placed and won a number of categories, overall Scotch College had six teams place in the top 12, including 1^st, 2^nd, 4^th and 5^th.

Congratulations to the following boys in their awards:

Of particular note, congratulations to:

Darcy Frazer (Year 9, Ferguson) who placed first in the Science Challenge; and

Rafe Harrison-Murray (Year 9, Stuart) who placed in the top three in six events to finish as the third highest scoring individual from all students competing in the event

Congratulations to the coaches Drummond Orr and James Naylor-Pratt for leading the Scotch teams to achieve these outstanding results.

Athletics Appointment