Academic News

NZQA factsheets

NZQA has produced a series of new factsheets about NCEA which are designed to be printed off individually or viewed online. The factsheets are:

• Factsheet 1: What is NCEA?
• Factsheet 2: NCEA and recognising excellence
• Factsheet 3: NCEA – choosing a course or subjects at school
• Factsheet 4: NCEA – internal and external assessment
• Factsheet 5: NCEA and University Entrance
• Factsheet 6: How NCEA results are recognised overseas.

The six factsheets are available here.

ACADEMIC COLOURS ASSEMBLY 2021

Congratulations to our 2020 students who excelled themselves in NCEA. We recognised Academic Colours at our formal Wednesday assembly this week.  A really important occasion to celebrate their hard work after such a disruptive academic year in 2020.  Congratulations to all those students who achieved Nelson College Academic Colours.

Level One Colours – NCEA Level 1 Endorsed with Excellence

Tom Carrington, Sameep Dahal, Michael Deans, Connor Eden, Benjamin Forbes Moody, Buster George, Freddy Griffiths, Angus Hellyer, Lucca Hemingway, Charlie Hobbs, Wescott Lee, Sean Lee-Westerson, Benji Mansfield, Ewan Mullett, Jack Murdoch, Sam Newson, Ben Palmer, Marcus Pattullo, Liam Peters, Marko Petterson, Tom Porter, Jordan Smith, Sam Twamley, Tristan Vadura-Lane, Jack Weaver, Samuel White

Level One Colours – NCEA Level 2 Endorsed with Merit

Hunter Adams, Joshua Amyes, Moss Cattell, James Coles, Elliot Corbin, Daniel Dadds, Zack Dancey, William Daniell, Alex Donnelly, Tim Douglas, Sam Foley, Daniel Franklin, Kobi Furniss, Zandi Galpin, Riley Gane, Billy Goble, Jonathan Gould, Nic Hall, Oliver Handforth, Ben Hiatt, Henri Hufflett, Henry Huynh, Ollie Inch, WooSeok Jang, Israel King, Yuki Kubota, Michael Lauer, Josh Lawson, Jack MacNeil, Mats Muche, Matt Newcombe, Lianchin Nitlungcin, Rory Pini-Hall, Sam Portsmouth, Ollie Ransom, Louis Rowell-Williams, Rhys Sharland, Hunter Sharp, Fin Slack, Zavier Spooner, Wil Thornalley, Bawi Tlumang, Michael Trolove, Billy Twamley, Samuel Twose, Theo Wheatley

Level Two – NCEA Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence

Oxford Bayley, Daniel Culverwell, Jack Deans, Caleb Eason, Salvi Esposito, Rico Fraser, Fergus Goodall Smith, Louis Hobson, Jayden Houghton, Christian King, Kaio Lart, Reuben Lile, Zoltan McComb, Tim McIlroy, Robbie McIntosh, Abel McNabb, Ben Mercer, Flynn Mercer, Jack Morris, Hiro Nagahama-Sequera, Gianni Pessione, Nico Sowery, Will Trott, Lukas Turner

Academic Colours Criteria

The award of academic colours is our most pretigious recognition of academic excellence for NCEA and is awarded to current Year 12 and Year 13 students.

Level One Academic Colours:

• Awarded if a student gains an endorsed Excellence certificate in their first full year of NCEA or
• A student gains an endorsed Merit certificate at Level Two NCEA

Level Two Academic Colours:

• Awarded if a student gains an endorsed Excellence certificate at Level Two NCEA

Nelson College continues to produce academic results which place the College at the forefront of Boys educators in NZ.

With a curriculum which caters for the needs of all boys we are able to celebrate excellence at NCEA, Scholarship and in the vocational sector.

For more information on the NCEA achievement standards and assessment system please visit the New Zealand Qualifications Authority website. See External exam timetable here.