Dr Hilary Liddell and John Liddell with the C.P. Liddell Scholarship awardees Ariana Kralicek, Khalen Quensell, Campbell Buchanan and Victor Coen.
Senior Prizegiving on October 30 in the F.W. Gamble Hall saw Head Prefects Khalen Quensell and Campbell Buchanan give moving and insightful speeches about leadership.
Khalen and Campbell, who were also MCs for the event, reflected on their time at MAGS and talked about their personal journeys.
They both thanked the staff at MAGS for pushing them and other students to achieve their personal best, and said they had learned that leadership was not about titles but was about serving and uplifting others.
Headmaster Mr Drumm began proceedings by acknowledging Albertian Greg Moyle, a long-serving member of the Board of Trustees and the MAGS Foundation. Mr Moyle, who has recently put 147 artworks up for auction to help raise funds for a new performing arts centre at MAGS, will be honoured for his service to MAGS at a dinner later in the year.
Ariana Kralicek and Victor Coen were named Girls Dux and Boys Dux respectively.
The prizegiving saw Ariana Kralicek and Victor Coen named Girls Dux and Boys Dux respectively, while Khalen was named Best All-Round Girl in Year 13 and Deputy Head Prefect Tyler Yare was named Best All-Round Boy in Year 13.
Khalen was also named Best All-Round Pacific Island Student and earned a C.P. Liddell Scholarship.There were three more C.P. Liddell Scholarships, worth $15,000 each, presented by John Liddell and sister Hilary to Ariana Kralicek, Campbell Buchanan and Victor Coen.
The prestigious Gold Lion was awarded to six students: Khalen, Brendan Wright-Akeli, Phoebe Newcombe, Romi Ropati, Catherine Makasini and Claudia Wen. The Gold Lion is awarded to students who have gained all four Lions – in Academia, Arts, Service and Sport.
Our Boys and Girls Proxime Accessits for 2025 are Cameron Lai and Nora Pecher respectively.
Ava Poynter was the recipient of the Woolf Fisher Memorial Scholarship, worth $4000 a year for three years, while the Jim Greatbanks Mount Albert Grammar School Engineering Scholarship was awarded to Luis Kerrigan and Stella Scahill.
Epeli Prescott and Brooke Margison were honoured for Service to the School with the Isaac Gray Cup and the Girls’ Foundation Cup respectively.
Ben Hori-Elliott and Claudia Wen were the winners of the Neville Watson Memorial Prize for the Student who Best Typifies the Spirit of Mount Albert Grammar School. Amy Jordan won the Sylvia Lamb Benevolence Cup.
The Te Puna o Wairaka Whanau Award for Best All Round Māori student went to Sasha Tobin. Awanui Hope won the Nga Uri o Matui Tupuni Award for a Māori student who demonstrates outstanding leadership, while Catherine Makasini won the equivalent Pasifika award.
The Harry Wichman Cup for Best All-Round Year 12 Boy was awarded to Jack Tyler, while the Linda Fraser Cup for Best All-Round Year 12 Girl was awarded to Emilia De Pledge.
The Best All-Round International Boy and Girl were Taiga Ueno and Yanqi Liu respectively.
The Hanson Cup for Senior Progress and Endeavour for Year 12 Boys was presented to Lachlan Paul, while the Yevette Williams Cup for Diligence for Year 12 Girls went to Tayla-Rose Mose.
There was also a musical item – May the Road Rise to Meet You – by our award-winning Centennial Choir under the direction of Terence Maskell.
You can see all the other prize-winners here
