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 2020

Finally after a delay due to Covid we got to recognise NCEA Academic Colours at Wednesdays formal assembly.  A really important occasion to celebrate some fantastic academic achievements for NCEA in 2019. Congratulations to everyone who walked across the stage and to those who couldn’t make it.

LEVEL TWO COLOURS

NCEA Level 2 Endorsed with Excellence: Liam Brennan, Oscar Floyd, Mika Hervel, Sam Innes-Walker, Jamie Aran, Maxwell Busby, Euan Fenwick, J-L Louverdis, An Nguyen, Dmitri van der Colk, Mack Eggers, Jamie Foster, Leo Secker, Patrick Wilson, Ben Grenfell, Liam Philp, Johan Banks, Zach Cornelisen, Finn de Hamel, Victor de Maupeou, Finnian Hall, Harrison Kroos, Ogun Matranga, George North, Ethan Skinner, Ronan Thompson.

LEVEL ONE COLOURS:

NCEA Level 1 Endorsed with Excellence: Rico Fraser, Billy Goble, Louis Hobson, Jack Deans, Henry Huynh, Tim McIlroy, Kaio Lart, Lukas Turner, Oxford Bayley, Israel King, Bawi Tlumang, Abel McNabb, Fergus Goodall Smith, Hiro Nagahama-Sequera, Daniel Culverwell, Christian King, Ben Mercer, Flynn Mercer, Jonathan Gould, Jayden Houghton, Jacob Liddle, Zoltan McComb, Jack MacNeil.

NCEA Level 2 Endorsed with Merit: Punn Cowarin, Jesse Lyster, Fergus Monk, Ewan Hey, Kaleb McKay, Daniel Neal, Josh Sheridan, Caleb Troy, James Wotton, Haruka Yamamoto, Josh Mansbridge, Nathan Parr, Josh Chan, Jack Cronin, Nico Frizzell, Joshua Harbinson, Gabe Hodge, JaeWoo Park, Jake Patel, Will Samson, Brodie Devon, Aled Howell, Luke McMorran, Tom Murray, Charlie Perkins, Joseph Riwaka Roberts, Harry Timms, Luke Walker, George Fisher, Brett Kerr-Laurie, Pete Middleton, Max Stanley, Zed Woodman, Justin Yokoyama.

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.