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SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
A very successful year of
Ballet for Brooke Smith
Brooke Smith (Year 7) a student at
Strictly Dance has enjoyed many
performance highlights with her
ballet this year. Brooke performed
in the Brisbane City Youth Ballet’s
production of The Wizard of Oz
at the Conservatorium Theatre at
Southbank. She competed and
placed in many group and solo
Eisteddfods throughout the year
but her most notable award for
2012 was winning the ATOD Junior
Classical Scholarship in May. She
then travelled to Melbourne in July
and competed at an Australasian
competition where she was placed
4th. Most recently Brooke was
selected from over 180 boys and
girls who auditioned to join the 2013
Queensland Ballet Junior Extension
Program.
Niamh Conway’s recognition
is twofold
Ormiston College ‘Paperback Writers’
has become a very positive club
for our budding young authors.
It provides a great opportunity
for students, not only to write
but also to enter various literary
competitions. This year Niamh
Conway (Year 8) entered her short
story in the Statewide Independent
Education Union of Australia literary
competition and was awarded a
Highly Commended. Niamh was
presented with her prize at a special
award ceremony.
Niamh also entered a Japanese
Speech Contest with the Modern
Language Teachers Association of
Queensland. The competition was
extremely demanding, with entrants
having to present lengthy speeches
about their family and free time
activities and in addition, respond
spontaneously to questions in
Japanese from the Judges. Niamh
did extremely well and was awarded
third in the competition.
National ‘All-Schools’
Swimming Championships
The National All-School Swimming
Championships were held from 28
July to 3 August and four Ormiston
College students competed. The
students recorded the following
results:
Lance Ash (Year 7), 2nd – 100m
butterfly, 7th – 50m butterfly, 7th
– 200m IM, 3rd – medley relay, 3rd –
freestyle relay.
Teneka Ash (Year 7), 2nd – 50m
butterfly, 3rd – 100m butterfly, 3rd –
50m freestyle, 6th – 50m backstroke,
1st – freestyle relay, 2nd – medley
relay, 3rd – all age “B” freestyle relay.
Casi McDonnell (Year 7), 4th – 100m
freestyle, 5th – 200m freestyle, 5th –
“B” freestyle relay.
Michaela Ryan (Year 5), 1st - 50m
backstroke, 3rd - 50m freestyle, 4th –
200m IM, 4th - 100m backstroke, 7th -
50m butterfly, 7th - 50m breaststroke,
all age “A” freestyle relay – 2nd,
Medley relay – 3rd, freestyle relay -
3rd.
All students have been very
persistent in training and competing
over a period of time to achieve the
success they enjoyed at the national
championships. We are all very
proud of their efforts and how they
represent themselves and Ormiston
College.
14 THE ORACLE Semester One Two Edition 2012