Qualifications and standards

2010 Top Scholarship Award winners

NZQA celebrated the success of the highest-achieving New Zealand Scholarship students at the annual Top Scholar Awards Ceremony hosted at Parliament.

The awards recognised the elite students who make up the 2010 Premier Award and Top Subject Scholarship Award winners.

Prime Minister's Award for Academic Excellence

The recipient of the 2010 award was announced by the Prime Minister, John Key, at Government House– former Christ's College student, David Bellamy.

Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Award, David Bellamy with the Prime Minister, John Key.

Premier Scholarship Award winners

Stewart Alexander Christchurch Boy's High School	David Bellamy* Christ's College
Athene Laws * St Cuthbert's College	Stephen Mackereth * King's College
William Quach * Mount Roskill Grammar School	Michael Tzu Win Wang Macleans College
Max Wilkinson * Papanui High School	Yuanye Xu * Westlake Boys' High School
Hao Jordan Zi * Mount Roskill Grammar School

*Also a Top Subject Scholarship Award winner

Top Subject Scholarship Award winners

Accounting	Paige Muggeridge New Plymouth Girls' High School
Agricultural and Horticultural Science	Phillipa Ebdon St Cuthbert's College
Art History	Zoe Crook Auckland Girls' Grammar School
Biology	James Phemister Sacred Heart College (Auckland)
Calculus	Xinchi Qiu ACG Senior College
Chemistry	David Bellamy Christ's College
Classical Studies	Conrad Grimshaw Auckland Grammar School
Design	Erica Xintong Cai Hutt Valley High School
Economics	Callum Rose Napier Boys' High School
English	Bonnie Pyper Northcote College
French	Ingrid Saker Wellington Girls' College
Geography	Athene Laws St Cuthbert's College
History	Hao Jordan Zi Mount Roskill Grammar School
Latin	Daniel Snell Wellington College
Media Studies	Adele Redmond Cashmere High School
Music	Max Wilkinson Papanui High School
Painting	Jasmine Knowles Saint Hilda's Collegiate School
Photography	Aretha Jansen Western Springs College
Physical Education	Natalie Russell Epsom Girls' Grammar School
Physics	Stephen Mackereth King's College
Printmaking	Wei Winnie Wu St Cuthbert's College
Science	Rosemary Grant Diocesan School for Girls
Sculpture	Shelby Farmer Spotswood College
Statistics	Max Wilkinson Papanui High School
Te Reo Māori	Koha Rogers Te Kura Kaupapa Māori O Te Waiu O Ngati Porou
Te Reo Rangatira	Turei Ormsby Hutt Valley High School
Technology	William Quach Mount Roskill Grammar School