Congratulations to the class of 2016 for their excellent WACE results. The School is extremely proud of their dedication and diligence. It has been very pleasing to hear of the number of students who have been offered their preferred university and vocational training courses for this year. This summary focuses on the achievements of our ATAR students. A summary of the achievements of our General Pathway students will be published shortly.
An Overview:
Close to 80% of our Year 12 students (106/133) studied a course that led to an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR).
Of these ATAR students the following collective results were achieved:
- 26% gained an ATAR of 90 or higher
- 30.5% gained an ATAR of 85 or higher
- 42.5% gained an ATAR of 80 or higher
- 52.7% gained an ATAR of 75 or higher
This means that over half of the ATAR students achieved grades that placed them in the top 25% of the national student cohort.
The North Coast Times Community Newspaper has named our School as the top performing school in the northern coastal corridor: “Peter Moyes Anglican Community School has topped the north coast suburbs, with 28 awards going to Year 12 students at the Mindarie school.” Click here to read more.
High Performing Courses
The results obtained in four of the School’s courses- Design, Earth and Environmental Science, Economics and Indonesian-resulted in these classes achieving marks that saw them being named as amongst the top in the state based on the percentage of students whose marks were in the top 15% of all students taking that course.
The “95 Club”
Each year the School recognises those students who have achieved an ATAR of 95 or higher. The School congratulates the following eight students that achieved this distinction.
- Ross Godwin
- Yohannah Smolders
- Amy Liddell
- Hannah Macdonald
- Caitlin Young
- Connor Atkinson
- Kai Hudson-Wood
- Phoebe Harold
The School is equally proud of the thirteen students who gained an ATAR of 94 or more.
Fittingly, our top two students were the 2016 Dux, Yohannah Smolders, and the 2016 Proxime Accessit Ross Godwin. Both Yohannah and Ross gained an ATAR of 99.4.
Subject Certificates of Excellence
Ross and Yohannah also each gained a Subject Certificate of Excellence, awarded to those students who have gained the highest examination mark in a subject. Yohannah was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for Human Biology and Ross for English.
Certificates of Distinction
Of these 13 students seven were awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Excellent School Achievement. A Certificate of Distinction is presented to students who in their last three consecutive years of senior secondary WACE enrolment achieve 190 to 200 points. The points are accrued from 20 Year 11 and Year 12 units, of which 10 are at Year 12 level.
They are to be congratulated for being among the top 0.5% of candidates based on their examination mark for one or more of their ATAR courses.
Students awarded a Certificate of Distinction were:
- Ross Godwin
- Phoebe Harold
- Evie Hodgson
- Hannah Macdonald
- Ana Rakonjac
- Yohannah Smolders
- Caitlin Young
Certificates of Merit
A Certificate of Merit is presented to students who in their last three consecutive years of senior secondary WACE enrolment achieves at least 150 points.
Students awarded a Certificate of Merit were:
- Daniel Ade
- Connor Atkinson
- Cara Burley
- Emma Childs
- Carys Donald
- Yonty Hodgetts
- Kai Hudson-Wood
- Lauren James
- Adam Jones
- Ben Leggett
- Amy Liddell
- Mitchell Newby-Butt
- Warrick Strauss
- Jack Tarleton
- Chloe Taylor
- Francine Van Den Berg
- Fraser Waddell
- Stefan Wollhaf
Some of these students will be invited to attend a special assembly at the beginning of Term 1, 2017. In addition to receiving the congratulations of the School, it is hoped that their efforts will inspire the class of 2017 and encourage them to dedicate themselves to achieve their academic potential.