NCEA Dux for 2025
The NCEA Dux Award was a joint award to Ella Bosselmann and Nina Wilson.
Ella Bosselmann is following on from her award as the top NCEA student in Year 12 with a perfect set of Excellences in all her subjects for Level 3 NCEA. Her teachers comment on her intellectual curiosity and her ability to engage with complex concepts, which demonstrates her maturity and critical thinking. Her quietly insightful contributions to class are really appreciated.
Ella has real strengths in the Arts, demonstrated not just in curriculum drama, but also Mary Poppins, the Shakespeare festival and Senior Improv, and a member of the St Cecilia Singers. We all hope that Ella continues to pursue performances on the stage and as part of choral groups at a tertiary level.
Ella has accepted the Tangiwai Excellence Scholarship to Victoria University where she is planning to study towards an Arts degree, with a double major in English Literature and Psychological Science.
Congratulations Ella on winning the joint NCEA Dux Award for 2025.
Nina Wilson has also completed a full set of Excellence results in 2025 across all her subjects. Nina’s success is across the curriculum in Sciences, Mathematics, Humanities and English, evidence of the exceptional ability she has across all academic and scholarly demands. She demonstrates a deep and insightful approach to all her studies and the passion and natural curiosity she brings to all her classes is appreciated by all.
Nina’s teachers remark on her ability to condense complex issues into scholarly and incisive reports, taking into account several angles and approaches. This level of precision and intellectual curiosity will serve her well in her tertiary studies.
Nina is planning to go to Otago to study towards a BA/LLB and she has secured an Otago University Leader of Tomorrow Scholarship.
Congratulations Nina on winning the joint NCEA Dux Award for 2025.
IB Dux for 2025
This year the recipient of the IB Dux Award is Leer Mao.
Leer is an exceptionally talented academic student who has approached the two years of the Diploma programme with an energy and enthusiasm that her teachers have found completely rewarding, as they have worked alongside her. Leer is always prepared to push herself and shows a genuine love of learning for its own sake, not the grades or the prizes she can achieve. Her contribution to class is outstanding, and her willingness to debate and explore complex and challenging ideas from various perspectives is something from which her peers benefit.
In 2024, as a year 12 student Leer achieved Outstanding Scholarships in Religious Studies, History and English and a Scholarship pass in Chinese. For this Leer was named as one of 55 Outstanding Scholars by NZQA and received a prize of $5000 per year for 3 years at University. She is hoping to go one better than this in 2025 as she is entered for 7 Scholarship subjects. In the Diploma we are also expecting great things for Leer as she has very strong results going into her final examinations.
Leer also makes a huge contribution to the school outside the curriculum, especially in the creative fields of choral music and art, and as part of the Ethics Olympiad and Council, the Chinese Cultural group and as an Amnesty Group leader.
Leer is destined for a stellar career whatever direction she takes. She is hoping to get into the University of Pennsylvania to study Business and Economics, and “Trump willing” she will start there mid 2026.
Congratulations Leer on being the 2025 IB Dux.
