Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. See you in 2017!
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Goodbye to Departing Staff and Merry Christmas to BTC Community
Goodbye to departing BTC staff, Ms Pollie Rayson, Ms Eri Hammond, Mrs Debby Smith and Mr Tim O'Rourke, . All teachers take fond memories of the BTC community and their time at BTC.
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. See you in 2017!
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year. See you in 2017!
Thursday, December 1, 2016
2016 Speech Day
Blackthorn Hall was packed as students, staff, families and friends gathered for the 2016 Speech Day for academic success and a recount of the year that was. Chairman of the Board, Mr Chris Hesp outlined the board's perspective of the year as well as announcing new Block grant funding for over $2,0000,000 for projects including refurbishing and upgrading the Science building, new male and female amenities and building a new dormitory with 70 beds.
Principal Mr Nigel Fairbairn, recounted a very successful year as well as highlighting the focus on the future and jobs of the future with the emphasis on the STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects and appointing a Head of STEM for 2017. Mr Fairbairn's drive and passion heralds an exciting future for BTC as we approach our 100th anniversary in 2019.
After The Junior School Year in Review which was a snapshot of events throughout the year, the Junior School recipients were presented with their prizes.
Senior Prizes were then awarded.
Mrs Schulz presented the Duxes of the Years and the Proxime Accessits before presenting the Dux of Blackheath and Thornburgh College 2016- Lachlan Wearing.
Principal Mr Nigel Fairbairn, recounted a very successful year as well as highlighting the focus on the future and jobs of the future with the emphasis on the STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects and appointing a Head of STEM for 2017. Mr Fairbairn's drive and passion heralds an exciting future for BTC as we approach our 100th anniversary in 2019.
After The Junior School Year in Review which was a snapshot of events throughout the year, the Junior School recipients were presented with their prizes.
Junior School Prizes
Prep
Kayla
Evans.............................. Encouragement
Award
Reuben
Grimshaw................... Encouragement
Award
Brooklyn
Hyden ...................... Encouragement
Award
Sonny
Prichard......................... Encouragement
Award
Pippa
Thompson...................... Encouragement
Award
Rivah
Young............................. Encouragement
Award
Prep
Charlie
Brown ......................... Encouragement
Award
Braith
Foot............................... Encouragement
Award
Bohdi
Herring........................... Encouragement
Award
Casey
Potter............................ Encouragement
Award
Rowan
Stoll.............................. Encouragement
Award
Gorgia
Sullivan ......................... Encouragement
Award
Kendall
Wassmuth................... Encouragement
Award
Katie
Windus........................... Encouragement
Award
Year 1
Kia King..................................... Encouragement
Award
Georgia Russell......................... Academic
Award
Year 2
Lilliebeth McDonald.................. Encouragement Award
Dana Bassett............................. Academic
Award
Year 3
Eloise Wassmuth....................... Encouragement
Award
Nate Thompson........................ Academic
Award
Year 4
Taitum Herring.......................... Encouragement
Award
Jake Everett.............................. Academic
Award
Year 5
Gemma Neville......................... Encouragement
Award,
Mia Bassett............................... Academic
Award
Year 6
Lucy Innes................................ Encouragement
Award
Hayley Abbott........................... Academic
Award
Thomas Burt............................. Religious
Education Award
Amelia Jamieson...................... Religious
Education Award
Heather Smallwood.................. Religious Education Award
Lucy Innes................................ Religious
Education Award
Lucy Innes ............................... Spirit of Junior School Senior Prizes were then awarded.
Year 7,
8, 9 and 10 Awards
Tenisha Solomon……….. Subject
Award for Art
Yasmeen
Caddy…………..Subject Award for Drama
Kathryn
Fisher………….… Subject Award
for Year 7 English, The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 7 Science
Catherine Weicks ……… Subject Award for Year 8
English
Megan Rayment ……….. Subject Award for Year 9 English,
Subject Award for Geography, Subject Award for History and
Subject Award for Manual Arts
Jessica Lewis …………. Subject
Award for Year 10 English
Olivia
Treacy…………..Subject Award for Home Economics, The Norm Wallace Science
Discovery Award for Year 10 Science
Jack
Donaldson……….…..Subject Award for Japanese, The Norm Wallace Science Discovery
Award for Year 10 Mathematics
Olivia
Miller ………….…….Subject Award for Music
Rhylie
Thompson ……….Subject Award for Physical Education
Zahra
Shadbolt…………….The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 7 Mathematics
Kelsey
Jones ………………..The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 8 Mathematics, The
Norm Wallace Science
Discovery Award for
Year 8 Science
Catherine Oliver………….The Norm Wallace Science
Discovery Award for Year 9 Mathematics
Kate
McCullough…………The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 9 Science
Chelsea
Condon ………… Year 7
Encouragement Award
Reagan Ernst ………….. Year
7 Encouragement Award
Reese
Herring ……………. Year 8
Encouragement Award
Bethany Marsterson ……. Year
8 Encouragement Award
Kendrah
Barrett …………. Year 9
Encouragement Award
Ned Marshall
…………….. Year 9 Encouragement Award
Ronnie
Critchley ………… Year 10 Encouragement Award
Kiara Guligo
……………….. Year 10 Encouragement Award
Year 11 & 12 Awards
Madalyn Weicks ………. Subject Award for Biology, Norma Lawson Prize
for Business Management, Subject Award for Japanese,
Subject Award for Mathematics A
Toniesha Williams ………Subject Award for Creative Art
Ashlee Walsh …………….. Subject Award for Drama
Amy Neville ……………….. The Landsberg English
Prize
Chloe Bond ……………. Subject Award
for English Communication, Subject Award for Prevocational Mathematics, Subject Award for Tourism, Year 12 Outstanding
Contribution to Vocational Education & Training
Maddison Aitchison …… Subject Award for Health Education
Jack McQueen ……………. Subject Award for
Industrial Technology Studies
Jordain Speechley ……… Subject
Award for Legal Studies, Subject Award for Science 21
Lachlan Wearing ……….. Subject Award for Mathematics B, The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 12 Mathematics
Julia Sturmfels …………… Subject Award for Modern
History
Kassity Knox ………………. Subject Award for Music
Duncan McKellar ………. The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 11 Mathematics
Georgie Taylor ………….. The Norm Wallace Science Discovery
Award for Year 11 Physics, The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 11
Chemistry
Lachlan Wearing………… The Norm Wallace Science Discovery Award for Year 12 Physics
Henrietta Sagon ………… Subject Award for Physical Education
Kaitlyn Treacy …………… Subject Awards for
Technology Studies
Elissa Harrison ……….. Subject
Award for Visual Art
James Smallwood ……..Year 11 Outstanding
Contribution to Vocational Education & Training
Mr Bowden presented the Certificate II and III awards
Rhylie Thompson Certificate
II Agriculture, Certificate II Business
Lachlan Chu Certificate
II Automotive Underbody
Elijah Epong Certificate
II Automotive Underbody
James Smallwood Certificate
II Automotive Underbody
Wade Willoughby Certificate
II Automotive Underbody, Certificate II Work Skills
Steven Zarganis Certificate
II Automotive Underbody
Joshua Abbott Certificate II
Business
Chloe Bond Certificate
II Business, Certificate II Work Skills, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Ronnie Critchley Certificate II
Business
Jack Donaldson Certificate II
Business
Liam Dumesny Certificate II
Business
Kelland Eliott Certificate
II Business
Stacy Krause Certificate II
Business
Jessica Lewis Certificate II
Business
Harry McQueen Certificate II
Business
Connor Neville Certificate II
Business
Kyle Schaefer Certificate
II Business
Tenisha Solomon Certificate II
Business
Olivia Treacy Certificate
II Business
Nikita Wearing Certificate II
Business
Jaxson Gallagher Certificate
II Electro Technology
Liam McKean Certificate
II Electro Technology, Certificate II Work Skills
Jaimi Rossow Certificate
II Electro Technology, Certificate II Work Skills
Alex Tupper-Osland Certificate
II Electro Technology, Certificate II Public Safety, Certificate II Work Skills
Fletcher Clayton Certificate
II Engineering Pathways
Connor Essex Certificate
II Engineering Pathways, Certificate II Work Skills
Mitch Fogarty Certificate
II Engineering Pathways, Certificate II Work Skills
Jack Gillatt Certificate
II Engineering Pathways
Chavez Kerr Certificate
II Engineering Pathways
Adagi Lifu Certificate
II Engineering Pathways, Certificate II Work Skills
Travis Wilson Certificate
II Engineering Pathways, Certificate II Work Skills
Evelyn Coleman Certificate
II Health Services
Jemma-Rae Callope Certificate
II Hospitality, Certificate II Public Safety, Certificate II Work Skills
Amber Connolly Certificate
II Hospitality
Shaleece Johnstone Certificate
II Hospitality, Certificate II Work Skills, Certificate III Sport &
Recreation
Rani Jones Certificate
II Hospitality, Certificate II Work Skills
Lauchlan Sollitt Certificate
II Hospitality, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Lauren Wallace Certificate
II Hospitality, Certificate II Public Safety, Certificate II Work Skills
AND
Certificate III Aged Care
Kiara Guligo Certificate
II Public Safety
Matthew Puddicombe Certificate
II Public Safety, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Alexander Ford Certificate
II Work Skills, Certificate III Aged Care
Matthew Guy Certificate
II Work Skills
Naomi Holdcroft Certificate
II Work Skills
Brodie Land Certificate
II Work Skills, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Jack McQueen Certificate
II Work Skills, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Amy Neville Certificate
II Work Skills
Douglas Sealy Certificate
II Work Skills, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Toneisha Williams Certificate
II Work Skills
Daniel Windus Certificate
II Work Skills
Belinda Uprichard Certificate
III Childcare, Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Sarah Epong Certificate
III Floristry
Frederick Bulsey Certificate III Sport & Recreation
Special Awards for the day went to :-
Year 7 – 10 Special Prizes
Catherine Oliver ………… Euclid Medal
for Exceptional Achievement in Year 9 Mathematics
Kate McCullough ………. Galileo Medal
for exceptional achievement in Year 9 Science
Jack Donaldson …………. Descartes
Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Year 10 Mathematics
Olivia Treacy ……………… Newton Medal
for Exceptional Achievement in Year 10 Science
Yasmeen Caddy ………….Year 7 George Seary Memorial
Prize for Handwriting
Babetha Nona …………….Year 8 George Seary Memorial
Prize for Handwriting
Megan Rayment ……….....Year 9 George Seary Memorial
Prize for Handwriting
Jack Donaldson …………..Year 10 JCU Encouragement
Award
Jessica Lewis ……………..
Year 10 JCU Encouragement Awards
Ronnie Critchley ……….. ..Charles and Beatrice
Winter Bursary
Kathryn Fisher …………… Mann-Richard’s Memorial Prize for Citizenship
Tarrisha Baira ……………. Long Tan Youth Leadership and Teamwork Award
Stacy Krause …………….. Thomas Collins Memorial Bursary
Year 11and 12
Special Prizes
Allen Rau.............................
Year 11 Encouragement Award
Samuel Shadbolt.................
Year 11 Encouragement Award
Wade Willoughby................
Year 11 Encouragement Award
Selai Mautaia................................ Venables
Family Encouragement Award
Lachlan Wearing..................
Mann-Richard’s Memorial Prize for Citizenship
Douglas Sealy................................ Long
Tan Youth Leadership & Teamwork Award
Hayley Condon....................
Judy Batt Memorial Prize
Kassity Knox........................
Margaret Beale Perpetual Shield for Outstanding Contribution to Performing Arts
Kaitlyn Treacy......................
Prize for the Most Improved
Georgie Taylor.....................
Faraday Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Year 11 Physics
Lachlan Wearing..................
Gauss Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Year 12 Mathematics
Lachlan Wearing..................
Bohr Medal for exceptional achievement in Year 12 Physics
Lachlan Wearing..................
Einstein Medal for Dux of Mathematics and Science
Madalyn Weicks........................... Dux of
Humanities
Lachlan Wearing..................
JCU Science and Engineering Scholarship Award
Amy Neville.........................
Bill Kennedy Memorial Prize for Outstanding Achievement
Evelyn Coleman...................
Blackheath Boarding Award
Damien Bige..........................Thornburgh Boarding Award
Amy Neville.........................
Stan Collins Memorial Prize for College Captain
Lachlan Wearing..................
Louis Spence Memorial Prize for College Captain
Damien Bige......................... Bob
Katter School Spirit Award
Henrietta Sagon..................... Caltex Best
All Rounder Award
Yasmeen Caddy.................. Year
7 Proxime Accessit
Kathryn Fisher.....................Year
7 Dux
Catherine Weicks.................Year 8 Proxime
Accessit
Kelsey Jones....................... Year
8 Dux
Kate McCullough................. Year
9 Proxime Accessit
Megan Rayment.................. Year
9 Dux
Olivia Teacy......................... Year
10 Proxime Accessit
Jack Donaldson.................... Year
10 Dux
Elissa Harrison..................... Year 11
Proxime Accessit
Georgie Taylor..................... Harry
Vause War Memorial Prize for Dux of Year 11
Madalyn Weicks...................Year 12
Proxime Accessit
Lachlan Wearing.................. Hal
Taylor Memorial Prize for Dux of Senior School
After the Senior School Year in Review, College Captains Amy Neville and Lachlan Wearing gave their speeches as their last formal duties as 2016 College Captains.
Mr Fairbairn then announced the 2017 leadership team for the College. It is:-
Thornburgh Captain- Sam Shadbolt
Blackheath Captain- Hayley Condon
Thornburgh Vice Captain- Allan Rau
Blackheath Vice Captain- Maddison Aitchison
Girls Boarding Captain- Evie Batt
Girls Boarding Vice Captain and Yr 7 Transition Prefect- Evelyn Coleman
Boys Boarding Captain- Allan Rau
Boys Boarding Vice Captain- Jordan Benny
Sports Prefect- Jessee Santo
Academic Prefect- Georgie Taylor
Arts Prefect- Kassity Knox
Blackthorn Prefect- Alex Tupper-Osland
Archie Black Captains- India Aitchison and Wade Willoughby
Bacon Bacon Captains- Lauren Millett and Liam McKean
Bryce Dickson Captains- Mitch Fogarty and Caitlyn Hyden
Congratulations and good luck for 2017.
