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WILLIAM SUTHERLAND,
DR GARETH AINSWORTH, TOMMY WEI,
TIANQI FENG, MS PAULINE CARDWELL,
CHRISTOPHER SPARKS, HARRISON LIU,
MISS ANNE ORGEOLET, CHRISTOPHER
CHAMBERLAIN, MR WARREN PRATT, ALEX
PATERSON, DR MARK JOHNSTON
PREMIER’S AWARDS TO SCOTCH’S
VCE ACHIEVERS
Scotch’s Class of 2018 was well represented at the Premier’s VCE Awards ceremony, which was
held in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 3 June. The awards recognised top
performing students for their outstanding academic achievements in the 2018 VCE.
Two members of the class, Christopher Chamberlain and Tommy Wei, received Top All-Round
VCE High Achiever Awards, which are awarded to students who have achieved study scores of
46 or higher in at least five VCE studies.
Six Scotch boys received Premier’s VCE Study Awards: Christopher Chamberlain (German),
Christopher Sparks (French), Alex Paterson (Ancient History), Harrison Liu (Biology), and William
Sutherland and Tianqi Feng (Mathematical Methods). Students must have achieved a study
score of 46 or above to be eligible for this award.
Congratulating all the award recipients, Victorian Premier, the Hon Daniel Andrews MP said they
should all be proud of the work they had put in and the results they had achieved. He also paid
tribute to all who had supported the students – parents, brothers, sisters, teachers and mentors.
The Victorian Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, the Hon James Merlino MP said the
Premier’s Award recipients ‘stood tall’ among the 50,981 Victorian students who attained their
VCE in 2018. He encouraged them to reflect proudly on that number, because it highlighted the
‘sheer magnitude’ of what they had achieved. ‘The Premier’s VCE Awards are about recognising
both the incredible scale of your success, and the extraordinary amount of work it takes to get
there,’ the Minister said.
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