Rathkeale College - News & Achievements

 

Congratulations Jonty Blundell: Dux of Rathkeale/St Matthew's Senior College.

Jonty Blundell was awarded the Senior College prize and the Blackett Cup as Dux of Rathkeale/St Matthew's Senior College.

Anna McBride was awarded the Trinity Schools' Foundation Prize and the Ramsay Silver Salver as Proxime Accessit.

Bronwyn Neal 1st in Year 12.

Andrew Sampson 2nd in Year 12.

 

Young Sportsman Of The Year Awards

Congratulations to Todd Jenkins who was awarded the Emerging Sport of the Year Award acknowledging his national and international achievement. Todd was Runner-Up for Wellington Speedway Driver of the Year, second at national youth stockcar champs and captain of the NZ Youth Team.

Congratuations also to  Tom Quinn, a Runner Up to Sportsman Of The Year, who won the junior boys 800m title and was fourth in the intermediate boys 800m at the NZ Secondary Schools Track and Field Champs, and George Sims  - third in the 100m freestyle and second in the 100m butterfly at National Division Two Swimming Champs and third in the 50m butterfly and second in the  100m butterfly at the Wellington Champs. 

Well done to you all.

    1st X1 Football - win in the Wellington School's Division 3 final.

  • Conor Hourigan - selection into the North Island Junior Clay Target Shooting Team.
  • Greg Bentley - 2nd Individual overall top score in the Central North Island Clay Target Shooting Competition over seven rounds.
  • Jack Sowry - 4th place in Wellington Schools' Cycling Competition.
  • Ryan Tonkin - Cricket Level 2 Umpires Qualification.
  • Nick de Silva and Aim Sundaravej - 3rd and 2nd placing in the Wellington Body Building Champs.
  • Jonty Blundell - credit performance in an International Language Competition.
  • Dominic O'Connor - merit award in the Reserve Bank Monetary Challenge.
  • George Deans has been selected for the Wellington U17’s Golf Team.
  • Josh Mann -1st XI Goalie selected as reserve Goalie for the Wairarapa United team.

Matharapa Competition August 10th 2011

1st Rathkeale Yr 10 Eddie Barnett, Daiya Masuda, Ryan Sheehan.

2nd St Matthew's team.

3rd Rathkeale Yr 10 Angus Gaffney, Conor Ogilvie, George Young.

Swimming

Joe Hammond – National Swimming champs.

2 silver medals (200 Breaststroke & 400 Ind Medley) + 2 4th, 1 5th, 1 6th, 1 7th placings.

Broke 5 swim Wairarapa Senior Short course Backstroke records, 9 Personal best times and qualified for 5 NZ Opens events.

 

Golden C'Art AwardFor the second year in a row Fine Arts at Rathkeale have been acknowledged. Alex Penfold received the Golden C 'Art Award presented by Masterton Trust Lands Trust to the highest achieving Visual Arts student in the Wairarapa who will be persuing a Fine Arts degree. Tim Wagg won this in 2010.

Outstanding Scholarship Results 2010

The Senior College is once again to be congratulated on excellent scholarship results. This is the second year in a row that the Senior College has swept the board - this year we gained 17 of the 18 scholarships awarded in the Wairarapa region.
The message must be clear -  if you have a gifted student - no matter what the subject is - you should be seriously considering Rathkeale College.
Graeme Anderson - Academic Director: Rathkeale College

Rathkeale St Matthew's Senior College congratulates the students who achieved Scholarships. 
14 students gained 17 Scholarships, of which 4 were at the Outstanding category.  Of the 14, 6 were Rathkeale boys who gained 7 Scholarships, 2 being Outstanding (Cameron Sims for Art Painting and Harrison Greenwood for Geography).

"The results are very pleasing and all students are to be congratulated.  Once again the Art dept has excelled and along with their NCEA results have produced outcomes that are without doubt the best in the country. No other school exceeded the number of scholarships gained in Painting. One Auckland school that also gained eight had no outstanding.  On a percentage of the cohort basis this puts us way ahead of any other school."