The 2022 Brisbane Grammar School Magazine

THE BRISBANE GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE 2022

Headmaster’s Speech Day Address

16 November 2022

Good afternoon distinguished Old Boy

Mr Alan Wu, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mr John Humphrey, members of the Board of Trustees, invited guests, members of staff, ladies and gentlemen and young men of BGS.

It is my pleasure to present the 154th Annual Report of Brisbane Grammar School. It is inspiring to be leading BGS at this period in its history, a pleasure to be surrounded by gifted members of staff, and a privilege to be entrusted with the education of talented students.

BGS is a thriving community that draws much from its history and its enduring values.

Our purpose is to “...educate boys within a strong learning culture that is innovative yet respectful of its traditions.”

The young men who attend Brisbane Grammar School find themselves amid a community openly committed to academic, sporting and artistic aspirations.

The School’s statement of Learning Philosophy reflects the broader objectives of the Australian Curriculum, which are to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.

At BGS, these general capabilities are addressed through the academic, wellbeing, and cocurricular programs.

Each of these is designed to promote the development and extension of the character and talents of students, and to nurture a keen sense of service, community, leadership and loyalty to others.

The BGS student wellbeing curriculum centres on the changing needs of boys. The School’s aim is to help the boys to have a true sense of self-respect and to celebrate their individuality, while respecting the difference of others.

Our guest speaker today has been a lifelong champion for a more participatory and inclusive society. Mr Wu is a living example of how a BGS education can positively affect outdated concepts and practices.

While we are confident of the strength of our School culture,

it remains our duty to review systems so that our students operate within a safe and secure learning environment. To this end the Student Wellbeing Team have undertaken three significant cultural projects: a bullying prevention review; an evaluation of the respectful relationship curriculum; and an analysis of the student leadership program.

BGS enlisted Dr Karen Healy, a prominent psychologist and academic with experience in bullying prevention. Her report endorsed current practices and offered opportunities to augment school processes. Similarly, the School engaged Dr Tessa Opie to evaluate the respectful relationships curriculum.

Drs Michael Flood and Claire Moran, both respected academics on gender relations, supported BGS teachers to renew educational resources.

The third cultural project entailed a review of the School’s student leadership program. Dr Fiona Barlow, race relations and social identity expert, presided over this evaluation and her recommendations will be implemented in 2023.

In boosting the School’s culture, we create an environment where students excel.

The Class of 2021 did just that. They achieved exceptional outcomes, including a median ATAR of 95.30. This median is particularly impressive given our

large non-selective cohort. A further 11 students achieved the top rank of 99.95, a remarkable achievement with only 32 students receiving this rank across Queensland, with four students receiving an ATAR of 99.90. An ATAR 90 and above was achieved by 69.5 per cent of the cohort.

While the Australian media criticises national NAPLAN standards, the BGS results are excellent and in keeping with our historically high norms.

The School’s commitment to how boys learn has been deepened through participation in the Independent Schools Queensland reading project, which provided data to elevate reading engagement and comprehension. Likewise, the School’s learning analytics agenda has accentuated the use of NAPLAN data to target key learning areas. Significant developments in Applied Thinking, the use of Consolidation and Preparation time, and Learning Plans have given rise to superior student ownership of learning.

Earlier this year the School’s Effective Thinking Framework was validated by the Centre for Research Evaluation at the University of Melbourne.

This deliberate investment in teachers supports them to be the agents of change. They instil a love of learning, and an aptitude to think creatively and to problem solve.

The School remains dedicated to professional learning for teachers, creating thinking classrooms, major investment in the learning spaces, and to a digital architecture that enables BGS teachers to provide outstanding contemporary learning experiences.

Brisbane Grammar School’s single-sex education has thrived throughout its history by encouraging a diverse range of sporting, cultural and broader cocurricular pursuits that elicit the lively ambitions of young men.

Across all programs, BGS student athletes have performed strongly in a highly competitive environment. Our boys earned Premierships or Championships in GPS Swimming, Cricket, Tennis and Gymnastics; podium finishes in Volleyball, Debating and Chess; Fencing and Sailing victories at interschool competitions; and state success and national recognition for both BGS Sailing and Gymnastics.

Many BGS students across a range of disciplines reached state selection, some were chosen in

national teams and many more were involved in a host of school-based clubs or activities.

In the Arts, the return to live performances and exhibitions inspired outstanding cultural events. The 2022 dramatic productions showcased thought-provoking theatre. The older students presented William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, while the juniors presented DNA. Both productions prompted viewers to examine the human condition.

Our art students mounted exhibitions that ranged from traditional two and threedimensional disciplines to interactive new media including virtual reality, philosophical gaming and sound art. There were even some interesting twists on taxidermy and fashion.

The work on display was clearly created by thoughtful young men, brave enough to share their own uncertainty about the transition to adult life.

The third element of the Arts is the School’s exceptional Music program. Grammar Community in Concert was again the high point. The School’s best ensembles performed classic cinematic hits. Other themed concerts included Renaissance Faire, Around the World in 80 minutes, Latin Fiesta and Sing and Swing. All of which entertained large audiences and showcased student and staff talent.

While our students revel in the cocurricular program, they also donate their time and talent to charitable agencies through BGS Public Purpose. This year students in Years 5 to 12 supported the Guide Dogs, RSPCA, World’s Greatest Shave, the Push-Up Challenge, Patients in Need, Homework Club and the Christmas Hamper Appeal.

Senior students also raised awareness about reconciliation, gender respect, anti-bullying, men’s health, and suicide prevention.

These actions and conversations

commit students to causes greater than themselves, forge respectful relationships and nurture good citizens.

Of equal importance has been the School’s investment in the residential program, and 2022 has been a year of great progress in Boarding.

The completion of the Harlin House renovation has seen the transformation of the boarding facilities over the past two years into two dedicated houses, where each boy now has his own space.

Today the boys enjoy the bestin-class lodgings and services, and as such the interest in boarding has never been stronger.

We expect to start 2023 with both Griffith and Harlin House at capacity.

The development of all-round students cannot be complete without an Outdoor Education experience. The BGS program draws

much interest from other schools for its developmental curriculum and its adventure activities.

Despite the COVID-19 restrictions early in the year, all year groups completed the program.

The Year 10s enjoyed the new rock climbing and abseiling site at Bitenbar Lower Cliffs and all boys continue to partake in leadership, local Indigenous culture and land care projects.

The School’s strategy is staunchly committed to providing the best facilities, so that the best people can deliver the best programs.

Our future demands that we uphold and prolong the spirit of a BGS education, while at the same time investing decisively in physical and technological infrastructure.

The School aims to embrace the most valuable aspects of modern technology, extend its commitment to fee-aided places, develop more meaningful connections with our

community, and continue to employ the finest staff to support our students.

Developing and refining STEAM education is the most critical project in 2023. We see STEAM as a mindset, not simply a building.

STEAM ways of working intentionally build cultures that promote challenge and curiosity to problem solve, collaborate, and develop interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in real world contexts.

The STEAM concept explicitly aligns with our commitment to being a ‘thinking’ organisation, just as the ‘A’ in STEAM values the creative and the innovative in the balanced education our students undertake.

Our commitment to STEAM has been a key driver of our shifting professional conversations to refine pedagogy and curriculum.

This year the School recruited its first Chief Information Officer

The School’s aim is to help the boys to have a true sense of self-respect and to celebrate their individuality, while respecting the difference of others.

to drive its ambitious digital transformation goals. Ms Alexis Hill is collaborating with BGS personnel and industry experts to ensure that emerging technologies aid the success of educational programs, enable staff to deliver high-quality courses and help the organisation to thrive.

The digital transformation program will embed digital capability and create a more integrated learning environment for students and teachers and a better user experience for parents.

Brisbane Grammar School remains a popular choice amongst prospective parents. From excellent teaching to some of the most beautiful grounds and facilities, we are experiencing demand for places far beyond the School’s capacity.

This interest in the BGS educational offering is due in part to the keen involvement of the parent body. Examples of this loyalty are evident each week, and major events highlight the esprit de corps that we enjoy. The 53rd BGS Art Show was a terrific prelude to Open Day. The gala evening highlighted 300 diverse works and drew a sell-out crowd of more than 400 attendees. The following morning over 4000 people attended Open Day.

Of interest to visitors was our desire to share our history, to tell our stories and connect with the broader community.

BGS also participated in Brisbane Open House and loaned artefacts to Victoria Barracks Museum. Our School Historian, Mr Chris Price, contributed a chapter to the Royal Historical Society’s book on Captain Cook, showcasing the stained-glass

portrait of the explorer that is in the Great Hall.

As I near the end of my speech today, I wish to acknowledge the active contribution of community members.

Firstly, I thank the Board of Trustees for providing well-defined strategic direction.

Secondly, I offer my thanks to the members of the Senior Leadership Team for their stewardship of the School.

Thirdly, I pay tribute to the teachers, cocurricular, business and services staff. Their belief in the boys and in the worth of a BGS education is the foundation to the School’s success.

BGS is fortunate to have people of such professional commitment; they do an incredible job in any year, and I am grateful to each of them.

There are many people who have worked at BGS for 20 years, some for 30 years, and fewer still who

The work on display was created by thoughtful young men, brave enough to share their own uncertainty about the transition to adult life.

have devoted 40 years of service.

In the Roe Building, there is an honour board that celebrates the long and loyal service of staff.

This year we honour Mr Jim Noble, who retires in the coming weeks. Mr Noble has been at BGS for almost 37 years. He has been a stalwart of the Music program, an enthusiastic sponsor of the basketball and track programs, the conductor of scores of bands and a fabulous colleague.

To Jim and Katherine Noble we offer our best wishes. I hope that the next adventure is personally rewarding.

Next, my appreciation extends to the parent body who willingly volunteer their time to support the many activities the School offers.

I acknowledge the following people for their work in major community leadership roles: Mr Justin Beirne, President of the Parents and Friends’ Association; Ms Berthine Ommensen, President of the P&F Auxiliary; and the President of the Old Boys’ Association Mr Cameron Feltham.

Their collective efforts, and those of the support groups, provide an additional layer of community engagement that braces the social composition of our school.

Lastly, I offer my thanks to all students and the School’s best wishes to the Class of 2022.

The seniors have been an especially eager year group. The student leaders Hamish Moss, Charlie McCauley, Lucas Sherington,

Sam Siganto and Finn BeckVeldman have been terrific in their leadership of the student body.

Seeing the seniors exit Centenary Hall for the final time is an annual reminder of the role BGS plays in the lives of young men.

It makes me proud that we are sending an impressive group of people into the world—young men who are varied in thought as well as in background, who have a global outlook and who are prepared to celebrate both their individuality and the uniqueness of others.

On behalf of the School, I wish them much happiness and good fortune in the future.

Trustees and Staff

Board of Trustees

MR J HUMPHREY, LLB UQ, (Chairman)

MR W TRAVES, BE(Hons), MEngSc UQ, FIEAust, CPEng, RPEQ, GAICD (Vice Chairman)

PROF D MACDONALD, PhD Deakin, FNAK, FAIESEP, GAICD

MR S BIZZELL, BCom UQ, MAICD, SA Fin

MS M CORFIELD, BCom, BA(Econ) UQ, GAICD

MS C BLAKE, BCom UQ, FCPA, FCA, FFin, AGIA, MAICD

DR A RYAN, MB, BS UQ, FRACGP

Mr M J CORGAT, CA, MBA GU, BCom UQ, SMP(IMD,CH) (Secretary to the Board of Trustees and Chief Financial Officer)

Headmaster

Mr A E MICALLEF, BA, DipEd, MA Syd, MACE, MACEL (Sabbatical Term 3)

Senior Leadership

Deputy Headmaster and Head of Senior School, Mr D J CARROLL, BA UQ, GradDipArts, GradDipTeach, MEL ACU

(Acting Headmaster Term 3)

Deputy Headmaster Cocurricular, Mr G B THORNE, BEd QUT

Deputy Headmaster People and Culture, Mr E J ROPER, BEd JCU, BAppSc(Maths) QUT, MACEL

Deputy Headmaster Teaching and Learning, Mr S G USCINSKI, BA(Hons) UQ, GradDipT, MEd QUT

Executive Director Advancement and Community Relations, Ms I BEAUMONT, BBus, BEcon UV, FCCA

Executive Director Educational Innovation, Ms J ZERVOS, BA, DipEd, MEdSt UQ, MACEL, MACE

Head of Middle School, Ms R CAMPBELL, BEd QUT, MEdSt UON, ProfCertIns Melb, MACEL

Chief Information Officer, Ms A HILL, BBus UON, Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors (From April)

Directors

Director of Assessment and Reporting, Mr M W SCHUMANN, BAppSc, GradDipT, MEd QUT

Director of Boarding, Mr B W WILLIAMS-JONES, BA, PGCE Wales, MA London, Cert Board Mgt Roeh, Dip Board Lead BSA

Director of Counselling and Academic Services, Ms D B NICHOLAS, BA UNISA, QCGA, CDAA, QASA, HDE(PG)(Sec) UCT, APCAS (Leave Term 1)

Director of Development (Advancement), Mr S C FITZPATRICK, BA GU

Director of Digital Learning, Mr G A DABELSTEIN, MAApplLing GU, BA, DipEd, GradCertJapan UQ, MIICT

Director of Enrolments, Mr J P SMITH, BEd QUT, MEd UON, AssocDegSocSc ACU, MACE

Director of Finance, Mr B A WALKER-DAVIES, LLB(Hons), BBus(Accounting) UQ

Director of ICT, Mr J N HART, BBus QUT (To June)

Director of Information Services, Mrs C M OXLEY, BEd UON, GradDipIT

Director of Marketing and Communications, Mr C A WALKER, BA, BJ UQ (To December)

Director of Organisational Learning, Dr H CAMPOS REMON, BEd GU, PhD USQ

Director of Outdoor Education, Mr D L JERVIS, BEd PD HPE UOW, Cert IV Outdoor TAFE

Director of People and Culture, Ms E STRYDOM, BComm UNISA, MHealth Care LUC, MBA USQ

Director of Physical Education, Sport and Activities, Mr J N CLANCY, BEd USQ, DipT QUT

Director of School Operations, Mr F C MCCLATCHY, BA CSU, TchCred, MEd USQ

Director of Student Wellbeing Programs, Ms P DOUGLAS, BEd QUT

Director of Teaching Development,

Ms H JOHNSTON, BA UQ, GradDipEd UC, GradCertEd ACER, ProfCertInstrLead, MInstrLead Melb, MACEL (Leave 2022)

Director of Teaching Development, Mrs A J HART, BSc, BA(Hons) UQ, PGDipEd UQ (Acting 2022)

Assistant Director of Boarding, Mr T J FULTON, BCom Deakin, GradDipEd UQ, GradCert Kaplan

Assistant Director of Outdoor Education, Mr M L FAIRLEY, BHSc UNE, DipOR, CertIVOE

Assistant Director of Sport, Mr G K DI LOSA, BEd QUT (Track and Field Director)

Heads of Year

Head of Year 12, Mr S S C CONWAY, BEd QUT, ProfCertInstrLead, MInstrLead Melb (Acting Head of Senior School Term 3)

Head of Year 11, Mr S J LOBASCHER, BEd, MEd GU, GradCert UQ

Head of Year 10, Mr C TIMMS, BA, GradDip, MEd QUT

Head of Year 9, Mr L J CARMICHAEL, DipT ACPE, BEd QUT, GradDipRE, MEd ACU (Leave Term 4)

Head of Year 8, Mr J HOPES, BEd QUT

Head of Year 7, Miss S VERDON, BA, Dip Ed UQ (Leave Term 3)

Head of Year 5 & 6, Mr P KENNY, BEdSt, DipTeach MTC, MEd USQ, MACE, MACEL

Heads of Department

Head of Academic Services, Ms M R MAGUIRE, BEd, GCEd, BA UQ

Head of Biological Science, Ms A M SMITH, BA, BSc UQ, Grad Dip Ed QUT (Leave Term 2-4)

Head of Design, Mr J FOULGER, DipEd GU, GradDipDesign UTS

Head of Drama, Mr B A NEWTH, BA, GradDipEd QUT (Acting 2022)

Head of Economics, Ms K STEVENSON, BCom, GradDipEd UQ, GrDipApp F&I Securities Institute

Head of English, Mr G P HOWES, BA UQ, BEd, MEd QUT, MACE, MACEL, ProfCertInsLead Melb

Head of Geography, Mrs C L PEPPER-ROGERS, BSc(Hons) Hull, MSc Bristol, PGCE London (Acting 2022)

Head of History, Ms S du RAND, BA, DipEd, MA(Hons), U.Kwazulu-Natal

Head of Languages, Ms J SAPOUNGIS, GradDipEd QUT, BA GU, AdvStudChin SYSU

Head of Mathematics, Ms A TWYMAN, Post GradCert MMU, BScMaths UMIST

Head of Middle School Administration and Events, Mr G TIER, BSc MU, GradDipEd ACU, DipAppSc SIT

Head of Middle School Curriculum, Mr I R GRICE, BCom(Hons), LLB(Hons) UQ, GradDipEd UNE, ProfCertIns Melb

Head of Music, Mr P INGRAM, MMus FSU, BA CQCM, AMusA AMEB, GradDipT QUT

Head of Physical Education, Mr J N CLANCY, BEd USQ, DipT QUT

Head of Physics, Ms N CHAN, BAppSc(Hons) QUT, BEd UQ

Head of Science, Mr J ATKINS, PGCE, BSc(Hons), AdCertEd QUB

Head of Visual Art, Ms A KENNEDY-LEVESQUE, BEd, BVA JCU

Principal Project Officer STEAM, Ms T J NEILSEN, BEd(Hons), BCreativeInd QUT (Seconded 2022)

Head of Learning Analytics, Mr N Holland, MEd QUT, BSc, BSc(Hons) UQ, PGDipEd ACU (Cross Country Director)

Head of Activities, Mr G MCFARLANE, BEd QUT, ProfCertIns Melb

Assistant Heads of Year

Assistant Head of Year 12, Mr B R SCHOLES, BAppSc, BEd, GradDipIT QUT (Acting Head of Year 12 Term 3) (Cross Country Director)

Assistant Head of Year 11, Mr T R HOLZGREFE, BEd QUT

Assistant Head of Year 10, Ms S MCDONALD, BMus, PostGradDip, MEd QUT

Assistant Head of Year 9, Mr W G HALES, BA Vic Wgn, GradDipT AUT, MEd QUT (Acting Head of Year 9 Term 4)

Assistant Head of Year 8, Mrs C M SALMON, BCom Bond, GradDipT USQ (Acting Head of Year 7 Term 3 and 4)

Assistant Head of Year 7, Mrs M J EVELEIGH, BEd Massey

Assistant Head of Year 5 & 6, Mr J SHEARS, BEd, BTeach GU

Assistant Heads of Department

Assistant Head of English, Mr P T KOBEZ, BA, DipEd UQ, MEd QUT (Leave) (Sailing Director)

Assistant Head of Geography, Mrs S BELL, BA UQ, MEd UNE (Acting 2022)

Assistant Head of History, Mr J A TAYLOR, BA UQ, Grad Dip ScEd, GradCert ACU, MA UNE (Chess Director)

Assistant Head of Languages, Ms B KACHEL, BA, BEd, MAApplLing USQ

Assistant Head of Mathematics, Mr M MOLONEY, BEng QUT, Grad Dip Ed UQ, MBA UON

Assistant Head of Music, Mr M ALLPORT, BMus(Hons), MMus UQ, GradDipEd QUT, AMus UQ

Assistant Head of Physical Education, Mr M LOGAN, BA HMS UQ (Swimming Director) (Leave Term 2)

Assistant Head of Science, Dr D L OWENS, BSc UQ, GradDipEd, PhD UCL(Leave 2022)

Assistant Head of Science, Mr D KOOPMAN, BSc UQ, PGCE UOS (Acting 2022)

Subject Moderators

Subject Moderator Chemistry, Mrs C RUBIRA, GradDip, BBiomedSC GU (Leave Terms 2-4)

Subject Moderator Chemistry, Dr K L INDER, BBiomedSC(Hons) GU, GradDipEd QUT, PhD, GU (Acting Term 2-4)

Subject Moderator Earth and Environmental Science, Mr J J PRICE, BEd UQ, BAppSc QUT

Subject Moderator General Mathematics, Ms M S CHIN, BA EWU, MAppSc CQU (Fencing Director)

Curriculum Assistants

Curriculum Assistant Middle School English, Mr J T LEWIS, BCreativeInd, GradDip, MEd QUT

(Acting Assistant Head of English Semester 2)

Curriculum Assistant Middle School History, Ms L A WHITCHER, BEd, Dip Ed, BA UQ

Curriculum Assistant Middle School Mathematics, Mr I J FARDON, BEd QUT

Curriculum Assistant Middle School Science, Ms S LINDSAY, BSc(Hons) UNSW, GradDipEd ACU

Middle School Literacy and Reading Advisor, Ms M RAGEN, BEd JCU, MEd SCU

Assistant Masters

Mr J S NOBLE, BMusEd, MMusEd Oregon

Ms S P GARDNER, BA UQ, DipEd GU

Ms A O’ROURKE, BA, PostGradDipEd UQ

Mr C MARSHALL, BEd, BAppSci, GradCert QUT, MAppSc UQ

Ms A CLEARY, BEd QUT

Mrs J L WALKER, BA, BEdSt UQ, GradDipT QUT

Mr G FLATSCHER, DipTeach, MPhil MUI

Ms V PALMER, BA UOFS, DipEd SIE, GradDipEd QUT

Mr S DEEGAN, BA UW, GradDipEd UNSW, IntroWelfare TAFE

Mr T G IRVINE, BAppSc HMSed UQ (Cricket Director)

Ms B AULD, BA ANU, GradDipEd CCAE

Ms G O’HANLON ROSE, BA, Dip Ed UQ

Mrs J E TAP, BEd HAC, MAppSc UWS

Mr A I SWAINE, BA ULIV, PGCE UB (Leave Semester 1/Retired June)

Mr M J TREMBLE, BEd JCU

Mr P R BRUNCKHORST, BSc, DipEd UQ

Mrs M T MARSHALL, BA, BEd UQ,

Ms J G VEDELAGO, BSc, BEd UQ (Leave 2022)

Mrs E G DONALDSON, GradDipEd GU, BA CU, GradDipArts UNC (Leave 2022)

Mr H P MURRAY, BHSPE UQ

Mr D J G LITTLEFAIR, BEd, BTeach UOW

Ms B POIDA, BA U Trier, Grad Dip Ed Uni-kl.de

Ms T L RICHMOND, BTechEd GU, CertIVPerf MC (Leave 2022)

Mrs B A WASS, BEd, BA UQ, MEd ACU (Leave Semester 2)

Mr D CELM, BA MON, MBus, GradDipEd QUT, CertClinicalT Melb

Mr C E WALKER, GradDipEd QUT, BThBMin Avondale

Mrs S S POSTERINO, GradDipL&T USQ

Mr A D KENNEDY, BAppSci QUT, BTechEd GU

Mr A M ROBERTSON, BA, BEd QUT

Ms D SMITH, BANursing Deakin, GradDipEd LaTrobe, MEd QUT

Mrs A J HUNTER, BEd GU, MEd USQ, CoGE UNSW (To June)

Mr N J KRUGER, BAHPE QUT

Mr S L JONES, BSc(Hons), MTeach Syd

Mr J HODGES, DipT QUT, GradDipOutEd GU

Ms A F IRVINE, BEd, BCreativeInd QUT (Leave 2022)

Mr J D STRUTHERS, BA SU, GradDipEd UQ

Ms M B E BARROW, PGCE, MCI UON (Leave Semester 2)

Ms B P S MACDIARMID, BA Syd, BFA NIDA, GradDipEd, MEd QUT (Leave 2022)

Mr P J LAST, BFA, GradDipEd QUT

Mr P J HUNTER, BEd UQ, BBus QUT

Miss R THOMAS, MMusSt, BMus(Hons), BEd UQ, AKC, AMusA

Mrs B S FOLEY, BA(Hons) UQ DipEd, MPhil UQ

Ms D A ANDREWS, BEd QUT (Leave Semester 1)

Ms K J CHILD, BA, BEd UQ

Mr S J CANFIELD, BA, BEd QUT, CoGE UNSW, BA(Hons) USC, MEd UNSW

Mr O M LEWIS, BSc(Hons) UWIST, PGCE USWE, MAppFin QUT

Mr H W BENSON, BSc, BEd UQ

Mr K YAMADA, B.Laws U Meijo, PostGradDipEd UQ

Mrs L VAN ROOYEN, BCEngHons, GradDipEd UTM (Leave Semester 1)

Ms N K RUSSELL, BEd GU

Ms R L COOMBE, BCreativeInd, BEd QUT

Ms C G THOMPSON, BEd GU, MEd USQ

Mr P M WARWICK, MASportCoach GU

Mr L R JOHNSTONE, BEd GU, AssocDegCivEng TAFE

Ms T CONNELL, BA(Hon) UWO, GradDip, MEd UQ (Leave 2022)

Mr R TU, BE, GradDipEd, MBA UQ

Mr D RITCHIE, BEd ACU (To April)

Mr M P A POWELL, BE, GradDipT QUT, GradDIpID USQ

Mr J R EASTERBROOK, BEd UQ

Ms A STUART, BA QCA, GradDip GU

Ms M K MERRYPOR, BEd, BA UQ

Mr L J HAWKINS, BEd ACU

Mrs S M LUSINK, BEd QUT, MEd CSU

Ms L ZHU, GradDipEd, MA UQ

Ms R J MILLS, BSc(Hons), BEd UQ

Ms L W MACKINTOSH, BPrimEd, BEd(Hons) WITS

Mr M S WALKER, BEcon UQ, GradDipEd QUT

Mr D F RUSSELL, BA, MTeach QUT

Mr S W FINCH, BA, BA(Hons) UQ, GradDipSEd/GradCertRE ACU

Ms A H FRANCIS, BA, DipArts UQ, GradDipEd QUT

Mr L P HERNE, PGCLTHE Kingston Uni, PCGE, BA(Hons) UOH (Chess Director)

Ms K L ALLINGHAM, BA MAS, GradDIpEd GU

Mr H E CURTIN, BExMovSc/BEd QUT (Acting Assistant Head of Physical Education) (Term 2)

Ms A T KETTLE, BEd, MEd Curtin (Leave Term 4)

Mr A A HOWARD, GradDipEd UQ, BEng(Hons) USQ (Acting Assistant Head of Year 12 Term 3 | Year 9 Term 4)

Mr S L SHIRLEY, BEd USC, GradDipEd, MEd UWA

Ms S M LOANE, BCreatArts, BEd UQ, AdvDipArts TAFE

Mr J B STRAUGHAN, BA/BEd UQ

Ms L MINER, BA Mon, GradDipEd MUA, MAPPLING Mon

Ms B A PEARCE, BCI QUT

Mr T R H Y ROBERTSON, BA, BSc, GradDipEd UQ

Ms L J DI DONATO, BSc/BEd UQ

Ms C C ALDRED, BA UQ, MTeach QUT

Ms R MASCIANTONIO, BA, GradDipEd QUT, MEd ACU

Ms S H LUSK, MTeach UNSW, BA, BHealth MU

Ms M R BAKER, BPharm UQ, GradDipEd GU

Mr L I SMITH, BSci, BTeach, CSU

Mr S HARROW, BA(Hons), PGCE LUT, MEd MON

Mr T D FRANCIS, BEd QUT

Mr J DISHER, BEd, DTeach MUC, MEd UQ

Mr P A JOHANSEN, BEd QUT

Mr A G SKINNER, BEd, BASi QUT (Subject Moderator Biology) (Terms 2-4)

Mr J DELANEY, BEd/Arts UQ (Semester 1)

Ms S L KOLKENBECK-RUH, BSc, PGCE UJ (From May)

Ms C PADGHAM, BA QUT, GradDipEd, MTeach UM (From May)

Ms A RILEY, BEd UQ, AMusA (From July)

Ms R PORTER, BEng GU, GradDipEd USC (From July)

Ms R V TROLAN, BA/BEd QUT (Semester 2)

Ms K CHARTERS, First State Exam UOL (Semester 2)

Ms A FOSS, BA, TCert UMHB

Ms M BROWN, BA, GradDipT CDU (From October)

Mr I A SHORT, BEcon UQ, BEd, GradDipC BCAE

Teaching Associate, Mr H LUCAS (Semester 2)

Counselling and Academic Services

Student Counsellor, Dr N P SIMMONS, BSocSc, GradDipEd QUT, PGDipEdSt, MPsychEd UQ, PhD UTAS, FCEDP, MAPS, MACEL (Acting Director of Counselling and Academic Services Term 1)

Student Counsellor, Ms J BAXENDELL, BPsyc UQ, PgDipProfPsych ACU, GDipEd GU

Student Support Officer, Ms S Omar

Student Support Officer, Ms G Morris

Learning Organisation

Special Advisor - Educational Improvement, Dr P G TAYLOR, BEd DDofAE, DipEd SCAE, MCurrStud UNE, PhD UQ

Learning Data Manager, Mr A J Webb, BAppSci(Hons) HMSEd, Grad Cert Urb UQ, GradDipIT QUT

Learning Data Manager, Mr K S R Hallis, BA, PGCE UOM

Archives

School Historian and Archivist, Mr C M PRICE, BA, DipEd UQ, MEd GU

Art Curator, Mr S W Service, BA QCA, BEd QUT

Library Staff

Library Technician, Mr D Hills, DipLibSer SBIT

Library Technician, Mrs B van den Hout, DipLibSer SBIT

Library Technician, Ms D Rawson, Cert III & IV Education Support SCIT, DipLibSer SBIT

Communications Officer, Ms K Webb, BDes GU, BFA QUT (Leave 2022)

Communications Officer, Ms E Larsen, BEd ACU, MinfST UC

Advancement and Community Relations

Ms C Hardy, BLeisure GU (To November)

Ms S E Breen, BJ CSU, GradDipWEP UQ (To February)

Mr A D Copeland, BAnim GU, BA UQ (To December)

Mr P K Brandist, BA(Hons) UOP

Ms E J Browning, BBus, BMediaCom QUT (To October)

Ms Miranda Cook, BJ UQ (From November)

Ms S Crease

Mr J Gorman, BA(Hons) Syd (From April)

Mr B J Kelly, DipLib/Info Ser TAFE

Mr S P Russell, Grad Dip Ed, BIE Ani, DipArt (To December)

Enrolments Manager, Mrs A J Walters

Mrs D A Power, Cert III BusAdm TAFE (Senior Boarding Tutor)

Risk and Compliance Manager, Mr K McCabe, CertIVTAE(TAFE), CertIVOH&S(TAFE)

Executive Assistant to the Headmaster

Mr M Stokes

Personal Assistants

Ms L Dunstan (To July)

Ms R A Lynch

Ms S M Hasenkam

Miss K D King, BAppSc QUT

Ms K S Dwyer

Ms A R Riley

Administration

Ms M Ward, BA CQCM

Ms C S Demonte

Ms C L Wilson

Ms S K Byrne

Finance

Ms P H Rich

Mrs K Huynh, CPA, BBus QUT

Mrs R I Chu, DipBus (Leave to September)

Ms K Humphrey, BCom UQ, CPA (To April)

Ms S Chapman-Stone, BBus QUT, CA

Ms M Shepherd, CertIV HR AHRI

Mr M Davison, BCom, GradDipT CCE

Ms J Chen, BComm, BEc UNSW, CA

Mr A Gray, CA, BBus QUT (To April)

Ms A McBride, MBus, BBus QUT (From February)

People and Culture

Ms T Magno, BPsych, MHRM QUT

Ms S Jenkinson (To March)

Mr B L Binkis, BBus GU (From March to October)

EdTech

Ms K R Kaandorp

Mr W Rogers (From September)

Ms C T Cooke

Mr S W Mitchell, BIT UCQ, MCSE, MCDA

Mr J R Brandon

Mr M A Collins

Ms C M Tong, MIT, BIT(Hons), GradCertBus QUT

Mr A E Bachmann, CertIIIHosp, CertIIISport

Mr K A N Morganlowe

Mr A Tripathi, MSc JU, BSC CSJM

Mr T Nguyen, BA Deakin (From April)

Mr A Nguyen, (From June)

Mrs L A Solomon Innes, BEd QUT, BBus UQ (To October)

Mrs D Bateman

Ms K Fjeldsbo (From October)

School Marshal

School Marshal/Fire Safety Advisor, Mr J Rodrigues, BSc UTS

Assistant School Marshal, Mr J Engelbrecht, BEd(Hons, BEd U.Kwazulu-Natal (To August)

Assistant School Marshal, Mr A Masefau (From October)

Sport Directors

Mr J H Coates (Gymnastics) (Head Coach)

Mr R J Cox, BAppSc HMS, (Volleyball)

Mr M T Fancutt (Tennis)

Mr T P Mooney (Rugby) (Head Coach)

Mr M Marden (Rowing)

Mr R Jovanovich (Swimming) (Head Coach)

Mr M Lake (Basketball) (To August)

Mr G Harvey (Football)

Ms D Schottlaender (Debating)

Mr J Hill (Fencing) (Assistant)

Head Coaches

Mr H Higgins (Rugby)

Mr M McKay (Football)

Mr P Steindl (Cricket)

Mr D George (Basketball) (To September)

Mr H Mahoney (Basketball) (From October)

Mr P Nowill (Cross Country)

Mr N Lorenz (Cross Country)

Mr K Thomas (Rowing)

Mr R Powell (Rowing)

Mr H Lee (Tennis) (Coordinator/Development Coach)

Indoor Sports Assistants

Mr D M Oliaro

Mr T Mooney

Performance Development

Head of Peformance and Development,

Mr A Bloch, BAppSc QUT, GradDipEd UQ

Head of Strength & Conditioning, Mr N Parnham

Ms C Paice (To March)

Mr G Cole

Ms L Ponsi

Mr M Carlon

Ms S Pidock (From April)

Health Centre

Manager, Ms K Bramley, DipAppSci QUT, BNursing ACU

Ms E M Brennan

Ms K Herbert

Ms J Nunn, BNurs QUT (To February)

Ms Z Koopman, BNurs UTS, GradCertPaeds ACN

Ms A Pilcher

Ms F Bayo, BNurs QUT

Mr Z Tilbury

Ms B Ryan

Facilities Manager

Mr C Derrick, DipConst UB, CIOB NC(CertBldgConstruction NEBCert, Man)

Boarding House Tutors

Mr H Higgins, Residential Boarding Supervisor

Mr A Lomas, Residential Boarding Tutor

Mr G Scott

Mr G Power

Ms C Davies

Ms E Jackson

Mr C Wigell

Ms D Cross, Houseparent

Boarding Houseparent/Indigenous Liasion Officer

Mrs A D Dunn, AssocDipDisab, Dip Ed Support (To October)

Outdoor Education Support Staff

Mr C Anderson, Mechanic, WorkPlaceManagement, WPHS

Ms A M Finch

Ms M Reid

Ms J Penhallurick

Mr T Claridge

Mr R Stanfield

Ms A Baker (From April)

Mr B Eccles, B ExNutrition UQ

Indoor Sports Manager

Ms J M Tavella

Language Assistants

Ms Y Dodd, BEd Kochi Uni

Ms A S Gernert, DipEd, BA (To September)

Mrs S S Posterino, GradDipL&T USQ

Mr D Brosnan, BA(Hons), MLitSt UQ

Principal Instrument Teachers

Mr S Chin, BMus, DipMusComp Syd, MMus QCMGU

Mr L Gordon, BMus GU

Dr P H Robinson, BMus(SCM), MMus UQ, PhD QCGU

Ms C F Guilfoyle, BAM QCM, PGDipEd, MMus UQ

Music Tutors

Mrs A J Bryant, BMusEd UQ

Mr I Weston, MMusStud QCGU, BJS Dist

Ms N Kalous, BMus(Hons), AMusA, GradDipPer QCMGU

Ms K Sander, DipMus, AMus AMEB

Mr M Bremner, MMus, BMus(Hons)

Mr P T O’Brien, BMus QCMGU, Dip Min

Mr A F Reginato, Dip Ed

Mrs K J Ruprecht, BMus(Hons), LMus

Mr P D Usher, Dip Mus, GradDipMus

Mrs C A Dykes, BMus(Hons)

Mrs A Harbottle, BMus(Hons), AMus AMEB

Mrs C M Mylne, BMusEd UQ, BA UQ

Miss A R Phillips, BMus QCMGU, GradDipPsych CQU

Ms C Brennan, BA, AMusA AMEB

Ms Y Clark

Mr D Bowers

Cleaning Supervisor and Administration Assistant

Mrs N Nuneski, DipLeadership & Management, DipBus (TAFE)

Maintenance Foreman

Mr G P Moore

Maintenance Staff

Mr A Mills

Mr T Pyke (From March)

Facilities and Ground Staff

Mr J W Dix

Mr P Gall

Mr K Van Der Merwe

Mr D Grantley (To September)

Mr C Timbrell

Mr M Fuentes (From October)

Mr B W Hafner

Mr B Derrick

Northgate Staff

Mr D W Myles

Mr C Oldfield

Mr S J Christie

Cleaning Staff

Mrs K Likoska

Mr J Mlynarczyk

Mrs A Haile

Ms J Tognolo

Ms A Habtemariam

Mr K B Habte

Mrs M Derrick

Ms G Tedla

Mrs V Petrovic

Mrs M Montoya-Ortiz (To February)

Mr J Chu

Mr A R Mlynarczyk

Mrs A K Mekonen

Mr M Yohannes (To March)

Mr W Ruengyan

Ms M Ye (To September)

Mr C Senedo

Mr D Darmanin (To April)

Mr J Jusay

Ms Y Liu

Ms E Garcia

Ms M Gonzalez

Mr M Gonzalez Carpintero

Mr M Figueroa

Mr G Asenjo

Mrs N Abrham

Ms V Arcena de Bukarica (From April)

Ms A Grice (From May)

Ms A Alvarez (From May)

Mr D Rodriguez Ortiega (From May)

Catering Manager

Mr S Perrett, Cert IV WPHS

Catering Staff

Ms S Laing

Mr S Chan

Mrs H Thomson

Mrs P Peng

Mr C Kong

Ms D C Rosano, Cert IV WPHS

Ms K S Guillevic

Mr J Shin

Ms A Webster

Mr R Hostiadi

Ms S Wilson

Ms G Grech

Ms T Summers (From May to July)

Ms E Vlasenko (From October)

Boat Shed Staff

Mr J A Schiller (To September)

Mr A Botting (From November)

Business Manager, Ms S Scott

Tuckshop Convenor, Ms S Boughen

Assistant Tuckshop Convenor, Ms W Beattie

Tuckshop Breakfast Convenor, Mr M Tiru

Tuckshop Assistant, Ms T Logan

Grammar Shop Convenor, Ms N West

Grammar Shop Assistant, Ms S Donald

Grammar Shop Assistant, Ms W Ricato

Grammar Shop Assistant, Ms D Love

Grammar Shop Assistant, Ms M Vrettos

Long-Serving BGS Staff

Staff recognised for marking 20 and 30 years of service to Brisbane Grammar School in 2022

Back row (L to R): Mr S Uscinski, Mr J Clancy, Mr G McFarlane, Mr S Service, Ms P Douglas, Ms B Auld, Mr I Short, Mr B Scholes, Mr F McClatchy, Ms J Zervos, Mr J Dix.

Middle row (L to R): Mr S Conway, Mr D McDowall, Ms P Rich, Ms J Sapoungis, Ms S Gardner, Mr M Allport, Mr D Hills, Mr A Mewing, Mr D Myles.

Farewells

Ed Roper’s 41-year career at Brisbane

Grammar School has been unique in its exceptional diversity and significance.

First employed as a teacher in 1982, Ed also worked in the Computer Department, joining Dr Tim Solomon and others in successfully modernising the School’s computer system. The team digitised accounts and finances, and created programs for enrolments and the School timetable. Ed also developed a program for one of the more complex systems, “CUMAS”, which analysed students’ assessment results across subjects.

Soon after his arrival, Ed joined the Harlin House Boarding staff. Keenly observant and authentically curious about what made individual boys “tick”, Ed had a talent for helping potentially disconnected boys connect in Harlin House. He was genuinely interested in them and what they thought; in turn he earned their trust and respect. In addition, Ed’s role as Football coach and manager for almost 40 years was another opportunity to make strong and lasting connections with boys and their families through his care and constancy.

By 1991, new opportunities emerged in pastoral care, as Ed became one of the first Heads of Year at BGS. This new team led significant change by realising research into pastoral care specific to boys. In this role, Ed helped model ways of working with boys: to know the individual student; be available and visible; and make time to listen. The boys and their parents knew he cared. After two cycles as Head of Year, Ed enjoyed new challenges as an academic middle leader and Head of Mathematics (2001-2002).

By 2003, a new, exciting era for BGS had begun with the birth of the Middle School. As its foundational Director, Ed welcomed the first Year 6 and 7 students. With the guidance of then Headmaster, Dr Peter Lennox, Ed applied research about Middle School philosophy and best practice to design student wellbeing structures and

programs, curriculum and learning spaces. Values of respect, inclusiveness and service were expected, modelled and taught.

Three years after the Middle School opened, Ed was appointed Deputy Headmaster, Staff and Community Relations, which evolved into his current role as Deputy Headmaster People and Culture. Over 16 years, his responsibilities have been uniquely extensive and diverse: Staff; Teaching Development; Information Technology; Enterprise Bargaining; Marketing and Communications; the Old Boys’ Association; Parents & Friends; and Enrolments. Ed was also instrumental in setting up the early partnership with the Cape York Institute and initiating international student leadership forums. More recently, he led the digital transformation project and the creation of a People and Culture department.

Ed’s career has been influenced by his own thirst for learning and his advocacy for learners—both students and staff. His vision for supporting teachers’ professional learning led him to research the experts, and then bring their work to teachers. Ed emphasised the importance of applying the “laboratory” to the classroom. The question of how change could support boys and their learning was always at the heart of his drive for innovation.

Mr Roper’s reputation among students as an excellent teacher has been built on their respect for his intellect, trust in his judgements and confidence that he is authentically interested in them and how they think.

Ed Roper leaves an impressive legacy of imagining, building, solving, and learning, which has made a positive difference to this community and beyond. His desire to invest in the complex, combined with his intelligence and willpower, have meant that he has achieved great things for the School, and importantly, for boys at BGS.

Jim Noble

In his 37 years at Brisbane Grammar School, Jim Noble has had a significant influence on thousands of BGS students. He always understood that teaching is as much about care as it was about content; and as much about guided practice as it is about telling students what to do. His ability to get the best out of people will be a characteristic that those of us who had the benefit of working with him will long remember.

My association with Jim began in 1993. He’d been at BGS for many years before my arrival and had established a strong relationship with his colleagues, high regard from his students, and admiration from the parent body. I feel fortunate that I could watch how he engaged with this community and learn how to foster the best outcomes for students.

Jim was born in Laramie, Wyoming USA and completed a Bachelor of Music Education at the University of Wyoming and then a Master’s degree in Music Education from the University of Oregon. He emigrated to Australia and joined BGS in 1986.

Since that time, he held the position of Instrumental Music Teacher and today is the Principal Brass Teacher and Director of Bands. Under Jim, the BGS Marching Band gained acclaim for its involvement in ANZAC Day marches, and his legacy to

BGS is the creation and coordination of an outstanding performance program.

Jim’s other passions included basketball and athletics and he was previously Master-in-Charge of Basketball.

One of Jim’s great strengths is that he never stopped innovating his brass pedagogy and improving his conducting skills. His training as a professional French horn player provided him with sound background in teaching tone production; however, he also wanted to be expert in teaching trumpet, trombone and tuba. With the School’s assistance he attended a conference in Chicago and was fortunate to attend a workshop by Elliot Chasanov, a prominent exponent of trombone performance. The workshop provided him with a deeper appreciation of tone and fostered his desire to build an extraordinary Music program.

Jim is also a performer of music. Playing and conducting in the Australian Academy of Music Symphonic Wind Ensemble gave him opportunities to master his craft, learn new techniques from other musicians and then share his abundant knowledge with his students and colleagues at BGS.

Jim’s tenure will be remembered for the tremendous impact he had in so many areas of school life. It is hard to believe that after so many years of service, he now departs BGS. His reliable and enthusiastic involvement in the Music program will be missed by his colleagues, countless students and the broader BGS community.

After 37 years of service at BGS, Jim leaves the School to pursue a new challenge in life. He has decided that now is the time that he and his wife will explore their interests—travelling, walking, family and music. We wish him and wife Katherine well for the future.

Farewells

Alistair Swaine

Alistair Swaine was, in the best sense of the term, a good and faithful servant of the Brisbane Grammar School from 2008 to his retirement in 2022. Alistair is the last in a line of a BGS teaching tradition: the specialist in Junior Science education. Over 15 years, hundreds of BGS students in Years 9 and 10 Science jumped aboard the ‘Swaine Train’ each day in Lab 203.

Students in Alistair’s classes benefited from his attention to detail and exacting standards. Alistair worked diligently to master the transition from paper-based curriculum to digital learning, and his expertise in LAN School monitoring of student device use remains unsurpassed. Most importantly, Alistair cared genuinely about the students in his classes and worked hard to support and guide those who at times struggled or risked ‘falling through the cracks’.

Alistair’s innate commitment to precision and meticulousness in all things saw him provide a fine standard of service as a manager in both the Rugby and Football programs; his record keeping was, unsurprisingly, exemplary.

Alistair’s colleagues in the Science Staffroom in the Roe Building speak fondly of his warmth, his gentle good humour and his willingness to support and assist his fellow teachers. A consistent theme from all was that Alistair was especially helpful with teachers new to the School, always being selflessly available to offer patient and well-directed advice and guidance.

We wish Alistair all the very best in his retirement.

After nearly 12 years at Brisbane Grammar School, Ms Lori Dunstan departed the School in July this year. In her role as Personal Assistant to the Secretary to the Board of Trustees and Chief Financial Officer, and to the Deputy Headmaster People and Culture, Lori was always professional and diplomatic; her interpersonal communication was high quality. These characteristics and skills were much appreciated, as was Lori’s absolute confidentiality. Lori treated every member of staff with courtesy and respect and, as my PA, was often the first point of contact for staff members who were experiencing emotional challenges. Lori showed great kindness to everyone.

Not only was Lori’s demeanour first rate, but she also had a very analytical thinking style and was an accomplished problem solver. Time and again Lori showed great initiative in devising efficiencies and solutions to current systems and problems to improve her and my work flows, as well as the experiences of members of staff. Often this work was done behind the scenes with little fanfare.

We wish Lori well for the next phase of her working life and trust she will remember her working life at BGS with affection.

Dale Nicholas

Dale Nicholas joined the staff of Brisbane Grammar School in 2010 as the inaugural Director of Counselling and Academic Services, taking on responsibility for the new department of Student Services in The Lilley Centre. Dale’s substantial and diverse experience in teaching and in providing personal and careers counselling in Australian and South African schools equipped her well for this challenge.

Dale has reimagined and transformed the way that the area known as Student Services operates at BGS. Level 4 of The Lilley Centre is a place that is open, warm and inviting and students and staff feel at ease dropping by to speak with Dale or one of her team. The BGS concept and design of Student Services—normalising and making safe and accessible for students the prospect of seeking information and advice, whatever the particular issue or concern might be—has become a model for other schools. Dale is unfailingly generous in sharing her expertise with colleagues.

Dale was instrumental in setting up Academic Services at Brisbane Grammar School, replacing a moribund ‘learning support’ function with a targeted, evidencebased and well-staffed program designed to close gaps in student learning and keep students on the path to academic success. This model is very much a manifestation of Dale’s deeply-held commitment to social justice, particularly in the area of disability and access. She was also the original “breaker of silos”. Dale did not simply consult or work across portfolios but rather ensured that the philosophy and practice of her team in Student Services transcended both the academic and wellbeing arms of the School.

The undisputed master of the fine technical detail of both the OP and ATAR systems, there was nothing that Dale did not know or could not find out about QCAA units of credit, the intricacies of AARA or the requirements for applications to US colleges. Dale also ensured that BGS gained accreditation as an examination centre for Oxford and Cambridge entry, an opportunity taken up by our Seniors each year. True to her South African roots, Dale has been a stalwart of the BGS Rugby program, providing administrative and social media support throughout her time.

Dale leaves a significant legacy at BGS, and will be greatly missed by her friends and colleagues.

Best wishes to all staff who finished at Brisbane Grammar School in 2022

Boris Binkis

Shannon Breen

Elise Browning

Sarah Caithness

Mili Chawda

Tania Connell

Rhett Cope

Andy Copeland

David Darmanin

Jack Delaney

Justin Engelbrecht

Louise Evans

Chaanya Fernando

Anne Gernert

Doug Grantley

Adam Gray

Carla Hardy

Bianca Hart

John Hart

Jacob Heal

David Hills

Jacob Holzgrefe

Ellie Jansson

Sally-Kim Jenkinson

Michael Lake

Jodie Lancashire

Tammy Lang

Henry Lawford

Jordan Manning

Maria Montoya-Ortiz

Jennifer Nunn

Catherine Paice

Nicole Pedemonte-Pizarro

Jordan Schiller

Samuel Schumann

Tyla Summers

Kurtis Thomas

Rachael Tickner

Megan Tran

Joanne Villiers

Chris Walker

Kirri Webb

Mal Hee Ye

Muluberhan Yohannes

Teaching Staff

Back row (L to R): Timothy Francis, Gregory Di-Losa, Matthew Logan, Jon Disher, Peter Brunckhorst, Andrew Webb, Adrian Howard, Ian Fardon, Justin Shears, Casey Walker, Jeffrey Lewis, Lachlan Johnstone.

Eighth row (L to R): Samuel Lobascher, Rebecca Thomas, Hung-Nien Tu, Jay Taylor, Britta Foley, Alexandra Francis, Loredana Di Donato, Harry Curtin, Paul Johansen, Lachlan Smith, Gregory Howes, Nathan Simmons, Daniel Celm.

Seventh Row (L to R): Dominic Russell, Chloe Aldred, Benjamin Newth, Andrew Kennedy, Ian Grice, Jamie Foulger, Jeffrey Price, Dylan Koopman, Michael Powell, Joshua Easterbrook, Steven Harrow, Liam Herne, Mark Walker, Nicholas Kruger, Owen Lewis, Stuart Shirley.

Sixth Row (L to R): Paul Warwick, Anne Kennedy-Levesque, Carla Salmon, Glen McFarlane, Hamish Benson, Kristopher Hallis, Patrick Last, Scott Deegan, Mark Tremble, Denis Brosnan, Adam Bloch, Bradley Scholes, Samuel Finch, Susan du Rand, Jack Straughan, Timothy Fulton.

Fifth Row (L to R): Craig Timms, Peter Ingram, Haydn Murray, Georg Flatscher, Simon Conway, John Atkins, Telfer Robertson, Dean Littlefair, Anne O’Rourke, Ged Hales, Sally Loane, Sarah Lusink, Andrew Skinner, Caroline Padgham, Katsumi Yamada, James Struthers, Carl Marshall.

Fourth Row (L to R): Naomi Russell, Abi Riley, Sarah Lindsay, Jennifer Tap, Renee Coombe, Noel Chan, Scott Jones, Michael Moloney, Paul Kenny, Michael Allport, Nick Holland, Abigail Twyman, Liisa Miner, Lisa Whitcher, Melissa Eveleigh, Megan Marshall.

Third Row (L to R): Li Zhu, Samantha Kolkenbeck-Ruh, Jo-Ellen Baxendell, Madeleine Brown, Roberta Porter, Jenine Sapoungis, Bethany Kachel, Michelle Maguire, Michelle Baker, Kate Stevenson, Rebecca Mills, Kerry Inder, Alison Cleary, Sophie Lusk, Sarah McDonald, Tanya Neilsen, Stephanie Posterino.

O’Hanlon-Rose, Kimberley Child, Lindy Mackintosh, Stella Gardner, Vicki Palmer, Claire Pepper-Rogers, Michelle

Second Row (L to R): Melanie Chin, Rachel Trolan, Danielle Smith, Jean Walker, Mikaela Merrypor, Georgina

Ragen, Bridget Pearce, Crystal Thompson, Lisa Miller, Rebecca Masciantonio.

Front Row (L to R): Chris Price, Jim Noble, Frank McClatchy, Mark Schumann, Cathryn Oxley, Berian Williams-Jones, Edward Roper, Stephen Uscinski, Anthony Micallef, David Carroll, Gregory Thorne, Jacqueline Zervos, John Clancy, Hannah Campos Remon, Dale Nicholas, Greg Dabelstein, Gregory Tier .

Business and Services Staff

Back row (L to R): Anna McBride, Debra Power, Susie Omar, Matthew Davison, Matt Stokes, Aaron Bachmann, Stephen Mitchell, Sally Byrne, Karly Dwyer.

Fifth Row (L to R): Maxim Varghese, Andy Copeland, Geoffrey Moore, Kyle Van Der Merwe, Khal Morganlowe, Sam Russell, Jonathan Burns, Jeffrey Dix, Todd Pyke, Andrew Mills, Paul Brandist.

Fourth Row (L to R): Nicole Ganter, Emily Mitchell, Elsa Larsen, Jeff Brandon, Anthony Mlynarczyk, John Mlynarczyk, Craig Timbrell, Andrew Nguyen, Mitchell Collins, Blake Hafner, Sally Elliott, Kebrom Habte, Nathan Parnham, Tam Nguyen.

Third Row (L to R): Riza Chu, Rochelle Lynch, Corina Demonte, Miranda Cook, Karoline Fjeldsbo, David Hills, Azeb Mekonen, Genet Tedla, Michelle Derrick, Wachares Ruengyan, Brendan Kelly, Debra Rawson, German Asenjo, Juliana Tognolo, Cindy Tong.

Second Row (L to R): Agnivesh Tripathi, Bernadette van den Hout, Debra Bateman, Tracey Magno, Asmarat Habtemariam, Almaz Haile, Ana Cecilia Alvarez, Mario Fuentes, Vilma Alexandra Arcena de Bukarica, Marco Figueroa, Suizon Conner, Katerina Likoska, Noami Abrham, Charlene Cooke.

Front Row (L to R): Kim Huynh, Janice Chen, Nikolina Nuneski, Craig Derrick, Jamie Smith, Keith McCabe, Mark Corgat, Anthony Micallef, Alexis Hill, Brett Walker-Davies, Stuart Fitzpatrick, Esmerelda Strydom, Alison Walters, AJ Masefau.

Speech Day

BGS Speech Day 2022, held on Wednesday 16 November, attracted a capacity audience of students, parents and staff to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC).

Guest speaker BGS Old Boy Alan Wu ’01 encouraged students to consider their good fortune.

“Life isn’t fair, but we can work to make it fairer,” he said, adding that “blindness to our own advantages is often accompanied by a blindness to the disadvantages of others.”

Wu, a lawyer and communitysector board member, was one of several distinguished speakers, which also included Chairman of the Board of Trustees John Humphrey, Headmaster Anthony Micallef and School Captain Hamish Moss.

“An education from this place means there’s virtually no limit to your journeys,” Wu said. “What a gift to look ahead and see almost boundless opportunity.”

In the two decades since he graduated from BGS, Wu—a proud gay man and son of Chinese migrants—has been a tireless champion for inclusion. After recently retiring as the longestserving Director of Oxfam Australia, Wu now serves as chair of Australia’s largest youth-run international development organisation, Oaktree. He is also a Director of social justice organisations Democracy in Colour

and the Victorian Pride Centre. Rather than focus on his considerable achievements, Wu reflected on the people and circumstances that enabled him to succeed. In a thought-provoking speech, he invited the boys to consider the “big and changing world beyond Grammar’s gates”.

“Over the years we spend at Grammar—figuratively and literally at the top of the hill—it is too easy to slip into thinking that we are entitled to the advantages an education here provides and reinforces,” he said.

“But we are not deserving, more than anyone else, of the strokes of good luck and circumstance that will allow us to learn and to work hard and to navigate the world in ways that others simply cannot.

“Instead, we should regard these advantages as bestowing an obligation on us, those most able to influence our society’s story.

“A duty to give life to the solidarity that arises when we reflect on the luck of parents and patronage. To further the successes and remedy the failures of those who’ve come before. To replenish the frontlines of progress in the struggles that define a generation.

“And to conceive of this responsibility not as one of charity but one of justice.”

Speech Day and Middle School Presentation

Year 5

Nicklin Award: S Sneddon

Public Speaking: L D Koch

Afternoon Prizes

History: L Lee

Geography: R Mehta

Public Speaking: M G Butler

P&F Association Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit: L T Armenis, M C Chang, O B Moody, W C French, E Z Y Gu, L A Hilford, A S Lee, M F Swan, J G Swayne, H J Wilkinson

Year 6

Nicklin Award: L Tan

Public Speaking: W M Angelini

P&F Association Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit: F H Beltrame, L J Donaldson, M Z T Gao, D A Incani, L D Rodins, K Senaratne, L J Y Tan, A Wadhwani, A Wadhwani, F A Wallwork, N E H Wang

Year 7

Dux: F R Barrett

Nicklin Award: F R Barrett

Public Speaking: H B Woodward

Visual Art: M D Wijesooriya Mudiyanselage

English (T P Hinch Memorial Prize): T P Scott

French: R N Y Raju

German: F G Silverston

Japanese: L W Liu

Chinese: C A Parr

Mathematics: A Jiang

Science: F R Barrett

History: A J Cook

Geography: F R Barrett

Drama: H B Woodward

Music: A Jiang

Design: T P Scott

Physical Education: J K Nguyen

P&F Association Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit:

A V Balasuiriya, N A Blanch, E H Chen, A J Cook, W R Dauber, J J Gorry, C S Ho, E J Koch, A N Kothari, J J Lin, L W Liu, H N T Mackay,

A T McLeod, J K Nguyen, L h Qu, A B Scott, T P Scott, F G Silverston, K Siraparapu, S Srivastava, Z Tan,

T J Van der Westhuizen, A P V G Wong, M W Woolley, Z W Yap, S Y Yong Gee

Year 8

Dux: J E Butler

Nicklin Award: M Z J Gao

English (T P Hinch Memorial Prize): J E Butler

French: J A T Parker

German: E M Hussey

Japanese: E S Conomos

Chinese: Z T S Smith

Mathematics: M Z J Gao

Science: O Mellick

Visual Art: C D W Coombe

Music: T B Meehan

Design: M B Bhandarker

Drama: E F Gillman

Physical Education: L J Dalton

P&F Association Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit: A Alayan, M Bennett, H Bhutada, A Boorer, E Conomos, C Deacon, T Deng, J Fleming, M Gao, E Hussey, L Lee, Z Luo, G-A Ma, R Mehta, O Mellick, M Nakasato, C Nelson, M Niazi, W O’Connell, V Prentis, B Rothwell, R Su, A Thapar, M Tho, N Wijesekera and J Zhang

Year 9

Dux: B C Li

Lilley Silver Medal: L M Saywell

English (T P Hinch Memorial Prize): B C Li

French: B C Li

German: A Qui-Tang

Japanese: X T Bui

Chinese: S T Leotta

Latin: L M Saywell

Mathematics (Christopher Gates Memorial Prize): C Y Zhu

Science (Noel Foote Memorial Prize): L M Saywell

History: B C Li

Geography: S Chan

Music: B C Li

Drama: M D Boccolacci

Visual Art: B C Li

Physical Education: H T Beirne

Design: S Chan

Public Speaking Prize: L Lu

P&F Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit: L M Saywell, L Lu, C P Woodhouse, S D Hazzard, N J Howarth, S Chan, B Z Xu, B J Huf, M J Young, M D Dore, A Qiu-Tang, H T Beirne, C T H Ma, C Y Zhu, D Zhou, B Zhang, C J Quagliotto, H W Spencer, S R Li, J Y Huang, K Kim, L S H Cook, J S Edwards, S T Leotta, W M Yuen

Year 10

Dux (Lilley Silver Medal): A P Austin

Noel Williams Memorial Prize: E R R Cooper

English (T P Hinch Memorial Prize): E R R Cooper

French (Basil Porter Prize): N P Carter

German: N G Silverston

Japanese: A J Sapsford

Chinese: M P Samios

Latin: A L Y Ellerman

Mathematics (Francis Memorial Prize): M P Samios

Science (Frank Walker Prize): A P Austin

History (Lyn Gasteen Memorial Prize): A L Y Ellerman

Geography: A P Austin

Music: E R R Cooper

Drama: N G Silverston

Visual Art: L J B Elliott

Physical Education: I D Lutz

Design: H R Cikaluru

Public Speaking Prize: D M Forrest

James Cowan Memorial Prize: L J B Elliott

Junior History Essay/Multimedia Prize: A L Y Ellerman

OBA Junior Essay Prize: E R R Cooper

Junior Poetry Prize: D M Forrest

Kenneth Patten Memorial Prize: D M Forrest

P&F Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit: C Fitzpatrick, N G Silverston, H R Cikaluru, J E Smith, M P Samios, J M Brough, S G Wallwork, H K Ridoutt, D J Luo, A H H Leung, N M Stathis, L W S Tan, M Z S Gao, Z T Lee, C J Lutton, J R M Gottliebsen, A L Y Ellerman, B Chen, L A Williams, J Premraj, J C Zhang, M T Yeo, A W Peters, L J B Elliott

Year 11

Dux (Broadbent Prize): S Ng

English (T P Hinch Memorial Prize): C C Lui

French (Basil Porter Prize): J C P Fearon

German: J A H Coburn

Japanese: D J Park

Chinese: E G A Thomas

Latin: Z Sun

Mathematics (Harlin Prize): Z Sun

Chemistry (Avery Memorial Prize): D J Park

Physics (Avery Memorial Prize): Z Zhang

Earth Science (H I Jensen Memorial Prize): Z Islam

Biological Science: Z Sun

Modern History (The Brian T Ball Prize): I B Bassingthwaighte

Ancient History (The Brian T Ball Prize): I Z V Robinson

Geography (G H Flint Memorial Prize): B J Bryant

Economics: B J Bryant

Music: J C P Fearon

Drama: J Y Lindgren

Visual Art: M E Mizutani

Physical Education: T A Lyons

Design: O D Cavallo Brittain

Literature: E J Gracey

Public Speaking Prize: B A Mackintosh

OBA Senior Essay Prize: A L N Crethar

Jim Johnson Award: R K Tong-Law

T C Baker-Finch Memorial Prize for Computing: R O S Kumar

P&F Auxiliary Prizes for General Merit: D J Park, Z Sun, B J Bryant, C C Lui, J E H Teow, R T Chou, E G A Thomas, J E T Murray, J A H Coburn, Z Zhang, H B Tennakoon, S C Kyprios, B J M Whittome, M C Barrett-Beck, F L Duggan, A Mondal, S Dahiya, R Y A Khan, T S Perera, R Gnanavel, C A Vidler,

A L N Crethar, G J Hilditch, J Z P Ting, A S Roe, C Lee, C M Jenvey

Year 12

Dux of the School (Lilley Gold Medal): J J Duncan

Bowen Prize (Prox. Acc.): A P Donald

English (Hoffman Memorial Prize): M W J Murray

French (Russell Walker Grant Memorial Medal): A P Donald

French (Basil Porter Memorial Prize): H T Moss

German: H R J Dickson

Japanese: L S Geissler

Chinese (Ross Maddock OAM and Bill Maddock Prize): I L M Tam

Latin (Bousfield Memorial Prize): J J Duncan

Mathematics (Cockle Prize): J J Duncan

Chemistry (Frank Walker Prize): T R Jackson

Physics (Frank Walker Prize): L Ling

Earth Science (Minter Memorial Prize): W J Nicolson

Biological Science (Gillies Memorial Prize): M A Love

Modern History (Richard Thatcher Memorial Prize): M W J Murray

Ancient History: L S Sherington

Geography (Adam Connell Memorial Prize):

K M Rahman

Economics: R R S Gilbert

Music: L Ling

Drama: O J Christie

Visual Art: A B S Bisset

Physical Education: C W Thomas

Design: A M Sommerfeld

Literature: B E Zacharyga

James Cowan Memorial Prize: S L Mellick

Charles Vincent McMahon Memorial Prize for Earth

Science: W J Matthews

Albert Murray Smith Memorial Prize (for History

Essay): O M Taylor

Ancient History Essay Prize: L J Sherington

C E Bevan Prize: A B S Bisset

Ronald Wyllie Prize for Public Speaking: R R S Gilbert

The John Deeney Prize for a Short Story: A B S Bisset

Noel Robertson Cup: C R H McCauley

Otto Nothling Memorial Prize: H T Moss

N S Pixley Prize: L S Sherington

Woolcock Challenge Cup: H T Moss

Senior Poetry Prize: A B S Bisset

Jack Lindsay Memorial Prize for Literary Criticism: B E Zacharyga

Harlin House Prize: S B Siganto

Economics Essay Prize: D W Beetham

Thomas Thatcher Memorial Prize: A P Donald

Sports Essay Prize: O M Taylor

Sinclaire Prize: N X Barrios

The Bernadette Moy Prize for Visual Art: W J Matthews

UQ Community Service Award: S B Siganto

SRB Neil Girdham Trophy: K M Rahman

W A Morrow Prizes for General Merit: M W J Murray, H R J Dickson, T C T Kwan, Y Li, T T C Pearn,

E A Dudgeon, I L M Tam, C S Aitken, O M Taylor,

S W Taylor, L Ling, T R Jackson, T T Macpherson, L P Tu,

D J Wang, N M Marshall, M A Love, T J Ricato,

D W Beetham, R R S Gilbert, P M T Chan, P R Jayalath,

A M Shanavas, B L Price, T W Hurwood, D K Mizuno, G G Butler

Sports and Music Awards

Nicholas Hart Memorial Trophy for Best All Round

Sportsman: L E Mackay

Swimming

OBA Cup (Champion Swimmer): Y W Jordan

Wilson & Chapman Memorial Trophy for Champion

Swimmer 16 Years: E J Nelson

W N “Bill” Heywood Memorial Trophy for Champion

Swimmer 15 Years: C J Lutton

14 Years Champion: Z Luo

13 Years Champion: M Nathan

12 Years Champion: E Lee

11 Years Champion: L Donaldson

10 Years Champion: K Kumar

Rowing

J M “Jack” Kortlang Best Oarsman Award: T A Doe

David Dunlop Trophy for Most Improved Oarsman: L N Agnew

The Dr C R Boyce Memorial Rowing Trophy for Outstanding Junior Oarsman: B J Huf

Cricket

The Edward Crouch Memorial Prize for Best Batsman: A S Tolhurst

J S Hutcheon Memorial Trophy for Most Consistent

Cricketer: A S Tolhurst

The R J Willcocks Memorial Prize for Best Bowler: C A Vidler

The R P Lord Memorial Cup for Best All Rounder: H D Weibgen

The Colonel F G Newton Memorial Trophy for Best

Fielding: H D Weibgen

The Kotecha/Thacker Prize for Best Cricketer Year 11: J G Davis

The John Minter Memorial Cup for Cricketer Year 10: S G Wallwork

The Clive Harburg Memorial Trophy for Best Cricketer

Year 9: H W Spencer

Year 8 Best Player: B Rothwell

Year 7 Best Player: H Weibgen

Year 6 Best Player: A Johansen

Year 5 Best Player: M Swan

Rugby Football

The Richard Gilliver Trophy for Rugby Footballer of the Year: R W Shaw

Jonathan ‘Noddy’ Xavier Memorial Trophy for Junior Rugby Footballer of the Year: E S Breen

The Arthur Douglas Ord Memorial Prize

(Best & Fairest Rugby Footballer): L T McGregor

16 Years Best Player: W L Pascoe

15 Years Best Player: M A Romer

14 Years Best Player: L Dalton

13 Years Best Player: H Mellick

12 Years Best Player: L Ellemor

11 Years Best Player: A Johansen

Cross Country

Helen Kent Challenge Cup for Cross Country

Champion: F R Raymond

16 Years Champion: A P Austin

15 Years Champion: L P Duncan

14 Years Champion: A Boorer

13 Years Champion: P Sangster

12 Years Champion: A Donaldson

11 Years Champion: S Sneddon

10 Years Champion: W Creighton

Track and Field

OBA Cup for Champion Athlete: A N Thakur

Open 100m Champion: E J Love

Open 1500m Champion: M T Hooper

Norman Waraker Memorial Cup (400m): E J Love

The Battle of Britain Challenge Cup for Champion

Athlete 16 Years: A P Austin

15 Years Champion: T C Chan

14 Years Champion: A Boorer

13 Years Champion: H Slater

12 Years Champion: G Dalton

11 Years Champion: D Ekeocha

10 Years Champion: M Chang

Football

P Williamson ‘Honour’ Award for Football: L J Nye

OBA Cup (Open Football): R S Paino

Year 11 Best Player: J N Keddy

Year 10 Best Player: E L Callaghan

Year 9 Best Player: S Chan

Year 8 Best Player: Y Dahiya

Year 7 Best Player: A Cooper

Year 6 Best Player: M Gatehouse

Year 5 Best Player: L Hilford

Tennis

Russell Love Memorial Racquet & N S Pixley Challenge

Cup (Singles Champion): K K Jayathilake

Donald & Warwick Nicol Prize for Tennis Doubles:

O R Tan, I W Smyth

Year 11 Champion: A P Norris

Year 10 Champion: C A Tuckwell

Year 9 Champion: A R Cook

Year 8 Champion: Z Luo

Year 7 Champion: S Patel

Year 6 Champion: K Struthers

Year 5 Champion: A Jarugula

Alan Wallace Trophy for Most Promising Junior Tennis Player: S Patel

Basketball

Open Best Player: J P Eccleston

Year 11 Best Player: L M Curtin

Year 10 Best Player: M H Balthes

Year 8 Best Player: A McNeill

Year 7 Best Player: L Jorss

Year 6 Best Player: A Boutcher

Year 5 Best Player: M Swan

Volleyball

Volleyball Open Champion: L J Sherington

Year 11 Best Player: E L VanderWal

Year 10 Best Player: A B Fitzgerald

Year 9 Best Player: S Chan

Year 8 Best Player: Z Smith

Year 7 Best Player: E Hardie

Sailing

Bill & Valda Byth Cup for Senior Champion: I E Schotte

Bill & Valda Byth Cup for Junior Champion: W T Ewart

Fencing

The Ferris Management Consultants Prize for Champion Fencer: I Wong

Music Awards

Musician of the Year Award: H R Dickson

Keyboard Prize: E R Cooper

Brass Prize: R R Gilbert, M W Murray

Strings Prize: T C Kwan

Vocal Prize: T T Davidson

Woodwind Prize: N M Marshall

Percussion Prize: C P Ridgeon

OBA Composition Award: S Ng

Open Concerto Prize: L L Leow

Year 8 Vocal: M Bhandarker

Year 7 Vocal: E Chen

Year 6 Vocal: F Dong

Year 5 Vocal: O Chin Moody

Year 8 Brass: M Tho

Year 7 Brass: A Wong

Year 6 Brass: E Morris

Year 5 Brass: W French

Year 8 String: M Gao

Year 7 String: C Ho

Year 6 String: A Ng

Year 5 String: T Ray

Year 8 Percussion: R Morris

Year 7 Percussion: F Vaughan

Year 6 Percussion: L Tan

Year 5 Percussion: W Chou

Year 7 Keyboard: E Huang

Year 6 Keyboard: M Gao

Year 5 Keyboard: Z Di

Year 8 Woodwind: A Lay

Year 7 Woodwind: J Brand

Year 6 Woodwind: F Dong

Year 5 Woodwind: O Chin Moody

Gymnastics

F W O’Rourke Challenge Cup for Champion Gymnast

Division 1: A L Hoole

J J Betts Memorial Trophy for Champion Gymnast

Division 2: S Ashby-Cliffe

The Donald Graeme McLeod Trophy for Champion

Gymnast Division 3: O Hoole

Chess

Champion Chess Player: N A Tennakoon

Year 8 Player of the Year: A Carter

Year 7 Player of the Year: L Qu

Year 6 Player of the Year: L Han

Year 5 Player of the Year: X Y Zou

Debating

Roe Prize for Best Debater: R R Gilbert

Drama

Judith Bell Prize for Dramatic Artist of the Year: D J Mount

Special Awards and Achievements

State and National Representatives

Back Row (L to R): Ethan Harcourt (Sailing), Isaac Schotte (Sailing), Ozair Rahman (Sailing), Max Romer (Rugby), Jordan Donald (Hockey), Justin Lowe (Fencing), Will Greene (Volleyball), Charlie McCauley (Rugby), Finnian Raymond (Cross Country), Will Pascoe (Rugby) Thomas Doe (Water Polo).

Third Row (L to R): Sam Mellick (Water Polo), Hayden Scholes (Hockey), Theo Chan (Fencing), Ethan VanderWal (Volleyball), Liam Cook (Volleyball), Jacob Raine (Swimming), Hanbi Seo (Fencing), Michael Murray (Sailing), Sebastien Roy-Bryant (Swimming), Josh Anderson (Swimming), Edward Sommerville (Swimming), Ronan Mellick (Swimming).

Second Row (L to R): Dinura Gallage (Future Problem Solving), Victory Okonkwo (Athletics), Daylin Johnson (Fencing), Max Gao (Swimming), Charlie Lutton (Swimming), William Jordan (Swimming), Oscar Zhong (Fencing), Archie Boorer (Cross Country), Edward Nelson (Swimming), George Sayer (Swimming), Jai Saini (Volleyball), George Lee (Sailing), Alex Sampson (Sailing), Ethan Ai (Sailing), Adam Chua (Future Problem Solving).

Front Row (L to R): Thomas Scott (Future Problem Solving), Nicholas Blanch (Future Problem Solving), Levi Phun (Sailing), Aiden Seo (Fencing), Hayden Huang (Cross Country, Athletics), Marcus Raine (Swimming), Alexander Donaldson (Triathlon), Eugene Lee (Swimming), Lachy Donaldson (Swimming), Eric Su (Future Problem Solving), Owen Zhong (Fencing), Mason Gao (Swimming), Lucas Han (Tennis).

Absent: Sal Leotta (Judo), Alex Thakur (Athletics), Will Motley (Athletics), Roc Woodhouse (Swimming).

Trustees’ Scholarship Winners

Old Boy Scholarship Winners

Colours

Ancient History

Half Colours

Year 12

Sherington L

Year 11

Robinson I

Basketball

Full Colours

Year 12

Balthes B

Eccleston J

Teng N

Yang N

Year 11

Curtin L

Harry A

Roe A

Year 10

Balthes M

Dwyer O

Mercer G

Half Colours

Year 12

Borodin N

Chen H

Green J

Matthews T

Mizuno K

Moss H

Nair S

Ricato T

Roper T

Swart J

Year 11

Choi T

Jesser D

Year 10

Brooks L

Cheng B

Sports Award

Year 12

Beetham D

Cayas D

Chen A

Chen B

Chen M

De Jager T

Ding A

Howden W

Kang B

Karanicolas C

Mercer J

Nouri A

Nye L

Pruyn M

Purcell S

Saood H

Saood U

Sherington L

Sun J

Thangavel A

Tu L

Waite C

Wang B

Wang D

Xu J

Yin D

Yu L

Year 11

Bui A

Lui C

Matthew J

Relan R

Tennakoon H

Vidler C

Yuen M

Year 10

Asomah E

Barlow R

Chappell S

Chudleigh D

Gulliver T

Hyde H

Motamarri R

Year 9

Bann L

Chan S

Coates B

Cook L

Du A

Forbes M

Fox J

Jorss N

Middleton J

Qiu Tang A

White O

Year 8

Carter L

de Jager J

Gillman E

Gislason M

Lee E

McNeill A

Miller C

Subburaj Y

Timblo A

Van Nispen R

Year 7

Aitchison T

Amarasena A

Ashman B

Bhatt A

Cook A

Greene W

Grey X

Jorss L

Lai L

Liu O

Selva R

Wang M

Basketball Services

Half Colours

Year 11

Sasikaran B

Sports Award

Year 10

Bade A

Chien J

Mercer G

Mercer H

Shearer Smith O

Swindells A

Year 9

Coates B

James J

Biology

Half Colours

Year 12

Love M

Year 11

Sun D

Chemistry

Half Colours

Year 12

Jackson T

Year 11

Park D

Chess

Full Colours

Year 12

Kankanwadi M

Tan O

Tennakoon N

Year 11

Ng S

Year 10

Carter N

Half Colours

Year 12

Dudgeon E

Gu A

Li D

Year 11

Teow J

Sports Award

Year 12

Butler G

Duncan J

Pearson J

Year 10

Nguyen N

Year 6

Han L

Year 5

Zou D

Chinese

Half Colours

Year 12

Tam I

Year 11

Thomas E

Cricket

Full Colours

Year 12

Love M

Mackay L

Matthews T

Sheedy W

Thomas C

Tolhurst A

Weibgen H

Year 11

Du Payne E

Mackintosh B

Spence O

Vidler C

Half Colours

Year 12

Hogarth Howes G

Hurwood T

Labrom G

Logan R

McCauley C

Mooney B

Nair S

Pearson J

Petersen C

Rahman K

Taylor O

Tennakoon N

Year 7

Harris O

Year 7

Chen A

Qu L

Mackay H

Meynink D

Rollason T

Saini P

Spence M

Szumowski L

Tennakoon J

Van der

Westhuizen T

Weibgen H

Woolley M

Sports Award

Year 12

Donald A

Dutton H

Hatzipetrou N

Horton J

Jayalath P

Linley B

Logan T

Madden N

Martinez Briggs F

Matheson B

Miller A

Mowbray H

Scriven H

Siganto S

Smith O

Year 11

Batchelor A

Brown S

Buck O

Chapman D

Clark M

Davis J

Feltham D

Gnanavel R

Hilditch G

Horton J

Johnson D

Jury M

Love E

Love J

Matthews J

Neep J

Nolan T

Perera T

Sane S

Singhal A

Stevens T

Thomas A

Year 10

Bakshi A

Bryan L

Cikaluru H

Cochrane R

Horton F

Huntley L

Lutz I

Manuel L

Mercer H

Smith J

Stannard T

Wallwork S

Year 9

Beirne H

Breen E

Clark A

Driessen W

Elf L

Kangatharan V

Langdon H

McNamara A

Reck H

Scholes H

Scott D

Spence A

Spencer H

Year 8

Ackermann M

Bhutada H

Carter L

Dahiya Y

Dauber O

de Jager J

Gillman E

Mehta R

Petersen M

Rothwell B

Timblo A

Year 7

Balasuiriya A

Burke H

Cavanagh A

Cooper A

Dunne G

Evans B

Kelley S

Liberatore H

Macaulay H

McLeod A

O’Connor W

Slatter A

Srivastava S

Cricket Services

Full Colours

Year 12

Taylor O

Cross Country

Full Colours

Year 12

Hooper M

Motley W

Raymond F

Sprott A

Year 10

Austin A

Elix H

Year 8

Boorer A

Half Colours

Year 12

Anderson L

Boorer N

Le Dan A

Year 11

Love E

Year 10

Griffiths K

Year 9

Slatter H

Year 7

Huang E

Kelley S

Year 5

Huang H

Sports Award

Year 12

Agnew L

Jackson T

Logan R

Moss H

Ong J

Purcell S

Sayer G

Sneddon A

Taylor O

Year 11

Atkinson L

Bryant B

Cameron S

Chapman D

Fidler S

Finch N

Forbes S

Houghton M

Keeley R

Love J

Munday C

Murphy A

Murray J

Nicholson J

Nilsen P

Richards T

Rimmington E

Sane S

Stevens T

Weightman N

Year 10

Baxter K

Chan T

Fitzpatrick C

Forrest D

Gottliebsen J

Harpham T

Love N

Murphy W

Williams L

Year 9

Anderson J

Breen E

Cardell A

Davies A

Duncan L

Gatehouse H

Jakupovic Z

Jorss N

Leotta S

Mann F

Waterhouse L

Year 8

Amato M

Bennett M

Collins I

Dauber O

Grant J

Kelso N

Luo C

Mellick O

Munday H

Nelson C

Year 7

Davies B

Donaldson A

Duncan L

Hodgson C

Holt D

Jackson B

Kumala M

Sangster P

Year 6

Campbell H

Campbell T

Gatehouse M

Debating

Full Colours

Year 12

Gilbert R

Graves A

Motley W

Murray M

Thakur A

Half Colours

Year 12

Davidson T

Jayalath P

Kankanwadi M

Moyle S

Tennakoon N

Year 7

Dauber W

Kumala M

Sharma S

Yap Z

Zaeem T

General Award

Year 10

Baxter K

Brough J

Forrest D

Tu O

Williams L

Year 9

Beckingsale M

Beetham M

Lu L

Ma C

Saywell L

Year 8

Bhandarker M

Mehta R

Nanda S

Thaker O

Zhang C

Debating

Services

Full Colours

Year 12

Motley W

Thakur A

Half Colours

Year 11

Bassingthwaighte I

Choi T

Kumar R

Lindgren J

Neep J

Whyte A

General Award

Year 11

Beckingsale A

Year 10

Brough J

Chua I

Deane F

Forrest D

Kim M

Smith J

Tan L

Warusamanna S

Design

Half Colours

Year 12

Sommerfeld A

Year 11

Cavallo Brittain O

Year 11

Lindgren J

Drama Services

Technical

Full Colours

Year 12

Dickey T

Year 11

Kumar R

Year 9

Langdon A

Half Colours

Year 11

Palling P

Year 10

Milner A

Year 9

Harasty S

Langdon A

Dux Year 9

Full Colours

Li B

Dux Year 10

Full Colours

Austin A

Dux Year 11

Full Colours

Ng S

Dux Year 12

Full Colours

Duncan J

Year 11

Islam Z

Economics

Half Colours

Year 12

Gilbert R

Year 11

Bryant B

English

Half Colours

Year 12

Murray M

Year 11

Lui C

Fencing

Full Colours

Year 12

Kwan T

Moyle S

Newman A

Wong I

Xu J

Yu L

Year 11

Haley C

Lowe J

Mao R

Palling P

Saini T

Strotton J

Strotton P

Year 10

Chan T

Cikaluru H

Seo H

Warusamanna S

Year 9

Lu L

Drama

Half Colours

Year 12

Christie O

Earth and Environmental Science

Half Colours

Year 12

Nicolson W

Year 8

Johnson D

Half Colours

Year 12

Lotzvie J

Year 11

Fearon J

Kearney E

Year 10

Cancio Newton A

Chan T

Hinton T

Window J

Year 7

Saini J

Sports Award

Year 12

Temesvari M

Year 10

Brough J

Doan I

Forrest D

Long S

Miller D

Year 9

Ballentine H

Howarth N

Yuen W

Fencing Services

Sports Award

Year 11

Dunglison T

Year 10

Forrest D

Year 9

Kumar V

Lu L

Football

Full Colours

Year 12

Borodin N

Le Dan A

Motley W

Nye L

Paino R

Sprott A

Year 11

Fitzgerald H

Gatehouse W

Keddy J

Thompson N

Year 10

Callaghan T

Griffiths K

Larsen O

Zeng M

Half Colours

Year 12

Cavalerie F

Conomos C

Dalgleish N

Ding A

Donaldson E

Graves A

Henley C

Hurwood T

Jackson T

Karanicolas C

Labrom G

Logan R

Macedo Francisco P

Macpherson T

Manoj A

Martin L

Miller A

Nelson H

Ng D

Pruyn M

Rahman K

Schotte I

Sherington L

Smith O

Spencer C

Tam I

Thakur A

Thangavel A

Tolhurst A

Tran J

Wang D

Wardrobe N

Wishart M

Year 11

Chapman D

Year 10 Qu D

Sports Award

Year 12

Butler G

Caines C

Castle E

Donald A

Eccleston J

Hargovind M

Linley B

Luke G

Marshall N

Matheson B

Ragupathy Y

Robinson D

Saood H

Saood U

Sihota J

Tanner B

Tavakol R

Wang B

Wimaladharma H

Zhu R

Year 11

Allen C

Coroneo D

Dahiya S

Feltham D

Hume A

Keeley R

Love E

Love J

Lyons T

Macintosh A

Mackintosh B

Robinson I

Selva K

Tran D

Vidler C

Ward S

Year 10

Bryan L

Furnell N

Latimore M

McConnel A

Nguyen B

O’Sullivan X

Peacock O

Pherous H

Romer M

Tran M

Wallwork S

Williams L

Xia O

Yeung A

Year 9

Anderson J

Chan S

Coates B

Coudre T

Gatehouse H

Hardie L

Jenns C

Msalem O

Qiu Tang A

Quagliotto C

Redmond B

Spencer H

van Brunschot V

Woodford W

Woodruff H

Zhang B

Year 8

Chalmers G

Chambers J

Collins I

Dahiya Y

Gillman E

Hajkowicz T

Hamra A

Horton N

Ko K

Lynch O

Morris R

O’Sullivan H

Simpkins D

Slater H

Xia O

Year 7

Arumugam Z

Balasuiriya A

Bent D

Cooper A

Duncan L

Dunne G

Harris O

Jackson B

Koch E

Kumala M

Lee E

McGlennon R

Medland W

Spence M

Tennakoon J

Vaughan F

Football Services

Full Colours

Year 12

Henley C

Macpherson T

Motley W

Smith O

Thakur A

Half Colours

Year 11

Ward S

Sports Award

Year 12

Le Dan A

French

Half Colours

Year 12

Moss H

Year 11

Fearon J

General Merit

Full Colours

Year 12

Aitken C

Beetham D

Butler G

Chan T

Dickson H

Donald A

Dudgeon E

Gilbert R

Hurwood T

Jackson T

Jayalath P

Kwan T

Li D

Ling L

Love M

Macpherson T

Marshall N

Mizuno K

Murray M

Pearn T

Price B

Ricato T

Shanavas A

Tam I

Taylor O

Taylor S

Tu L

Wang D

Year 11

Barrett Beck M

Bryant B

Chou R

Coburn J

Crethar A

Dahiya S

Duggan F

Gnanavel R

Hilditch G

Jenvey C

Khan R

Kyprios S

Lee D

Lui C

Mondal A

Murray J

Park D

Perera T

Roe A

Sun D

Tennakoon H

Teow J

Thomas E

Ting J

Vidler C

Whittome B

Zhang L

Half Colours

Year 10

Brough J

Chen B

Cikaluru H

Cooper E

Ellerman A

Elliott L

Fitzpatrick C

Gao M

Gottliebsen J

Lee Z

Leung A

Luo D

Lutton C

Peters A

Premraj J

Ridoutt H

Samios M

Silverston N

Smith J

Stathis N

Tan L

Wallwork S

Williams L

Yeo M

Zhang J

Year 9

Beirne H

Chan S

Cook L

Dore M

Edwards J

Hazzard S

Howarth N

Huang J

Huf B

Kim A

Leotta S

Li S

Lu L

Ma C

Qiu Tang A

Quagliotto C

Saywell L

Spencer H

Woodhouse R

Xu B

Young M

Yuen W

Zhang B

Zhou D

Zhu C

Geography

Half Colours

Year 12

Rahman K

Year 11

Bryant B

German

Half Colours

Year 12

Dickson H

Year 11

Coburn J

Gymnastics

Full Colours

Year 12

Hoole A

Year 11

Nucifora J

Waterhouse O

Year 10

Hoole N

Year 7

Waterhouse C

Half Colours

Year 10

Ali K

Wu J

Year 9

Russell L

Waterhouse L

Year 8

Nelson C

Stock L

Year 7

Chen E

Hoole O

Wu J

Year 6

Ashby Cliffe S

Year 5

Perel A

Sports Award

Year 10

McDonnell R

Robertson J

Year 7

Slatter A

Stevenson J

Year 6

Bryan S

Year 5

French W

Harris F

Japanese

Half Colours

Year 12

Geissler L

Year 11 Park D

Junior Dramatic Production

Half Colours

Year 10

Abiad O

Donald T

Gottliebsen J

Hammett N

James A

O’Neill M

Scott N

Year 9

Beckingsale M

Dang L

Lindgren M

Salisbury F

Latin Half Colours

Year 12

Duncan J

Year 11

Sun D

Literature

Half Colours

Year 12

Zacharyga B

Year 11

Gracey E

Mathematics

Half Colours

Year 12

Duncan J

Year 11

Sun D

Middle School

Dramatic Production

Half Colours

Year 8

Amato M

Chang K

Douglas E

Gottliebsen S

Kumar B

Nanda S

Samios A

Smyth H

Wechsel M

Year 7

Allen L

Barrett F

Blanch N

Dunn Mura O

Langton Lockton T

Treweeke H

Woodward H

Yap Z

General Award

Year 8

Eddington L

Modern History

Half Colours

Year 12

Murray M

Year 11

Bassingthwaighte I

Music

Half Colours

Year 12

Ling L

Year 11

Fearon J

Music (Cocurricular)

Full Colours

Year 12

Castrisos Z

Christie O

Dalgleish N

Davidson T

Dickson H

Gilbert R

Green J

Kakourakis N

Kwan T

Lotzvie J

Marshall N

Moss H

Murray M

Ridgeon C

Shanavas A

Sommerfeld A

Zhu R

Year 11

Beckingsale A

Campbell L

Fearon J

Hill D

Leow L

Lui C

Ng S

Perera T

Qin L

Rutter T

Waterhouse O

Wong M

Yu D

Year 10

Brough J

Carter N

Cooper E

Hains S

Hoole N

Long S

Love N

Miller D

Topping J

Window J

Yesberg C

Year 9

Beirne H

Bryan M

Year 8

Chang K

Lay A

Philpot R

Shan N

Wickramasekera D

Half Colours

Year 12

Cayas D

Graves A

Hoole A

Huang M

Jayalath P

Leung L

Li D

Mullan E

O’Quinn W

Parry J

Pearn T

Quail T

Sun J

Sun L

Tu L

Yii B

Year 11

Bryant B

Cavallo Brittain O

Chiang E

Coburn J

Kumar R

Lau N

McCabe C

Reinke B

Sun D

Taylor I

Thomas S

Thomas E

Year 10

Burcham J

Chan T

Chan T

Chien J

Chua I

Fitzpatrick C

Harvey L

Leung A

Luo D

Macfarlane A

Nguyen N

Silverston N

Tiong E

Tsai G

Tu O

Wong A

Xiao A

Yee R

Year 9

Dark N

Howarth N

Huang J

Huf B

Jiang J

Karmel X

Li B

Liang L

Liu A

Lu L

Neilson W

Paschkewitz D

Pendleton W

Ramalingam J

Simonetta J

Waterhouse L

Xu B

Young M

Yuen W

Zhang B

Zhu C

Year 8

Ahn D

Butler J

Chan J

Conomos E

Gao M

Hamilton A

Hussey E

Lee L

Prescott C

Su E

Tho M

Yoon E

Zhang D

Year 7

Chen E

Kim O

Li E

Scott A

Vaughan F

Wong A

General Award

Year 12

Mount D

Rahman K

Wallis M

Year 11

Lee D

Mao R

Nilsen P

Patel K

Yen J

Year 10

Bell L

Cikaluru H

Doan I

La B

Peters A

Peterson J

Shanmuga

Anandan A

Smith J

Wu T

Yeo M

Year 9

Beckingsale M

Beikoff J

Chan S

Chien B

Dang L

Do A

Fuller C

Gao H

Haque Z

Harding J

Kumar V

Lam R

Lauder N

Leong C

Lollback J

Margetts S

Qiu Tang A

Scholes H

Swane F

Van der

Westhuizen J

Zhang B

Year 8

Ai E

Aleksiuk L

Amato M

Bhandarker M

Carter A

Carter L

Chen A

Chua A

Gao J

List A

McBride S

Meehan T

Mehta R

Morris R

Nakasato M

Wrigley Z

Zhang C

Year 7

Andreatidis T

Arthur J

Barrett F

Brand J

Carroll P

Chin Moody J

Gorry J

Ho C

Holley E

Holt M

Hoole O

Huang E

Lin X

Liu L

Srivastava S

Waterhouse C

Wong B

Yap Z

Yong Gee S

Music Services

Full Colours

Year 12

Dalgleish N

Davidson T

Dickson H

Gilbert R

Graves A

Kakourakis N

Kwan T

Murray M

Ridgeon C

Sommerfeld A

Year 7

Yap Z

Half Colours

Year 12

Duncan J

Green J

Marshall N

Year 10

Forrest D

Hoole N

Physical Education

Half Colours

Year 12

Thomas C

Year 11

Lyons T

Physics

Half Colours

Year 12

Ling L

Year 11

Zhang L

Rowing

Full Colours

Year 12

Agnew L

Akhavan O

Doe T

Mellick S

Shaw W

Stoneley C

Year 11

Keeley R

Morrissey J

Weightman N

Half Colours

Year 12

De Jager T

MacPherson J

Mulholland J

Ong J

Parry J

Purcell S

Stewart D

von Hoyer Davies C

Year 7

Davies B

Sports Award

Year 12

Brice H

Craig X

Dutton H

Flaskas A

Jackson A

Madden N

Michael N

Reinhold A

Shaw R

Year 11

Boros J

Brown A

Bunce H

Cameron S

Clifton H

Douglas H

Dunglison T

Dwyer W

Fidler S

Finch N

Forbes S

Houghton M

Keane I

Khan R

McCoy L

Mizutani M

Nicholson J

Pascoe W

Reck L

Weier B

Whyte A

Year 10

Andrews H

Bellamy M

Cooke H

Cooper E

Gislason F

Guyatt J

Hammer M

Jackson A

Joyce M

Kimbell S

Kotovich B

Leung A

Liberatore M

Martin O

O’Neill M

Perumal K

Peterson J

Purcell M

Ruddell T

Simpson S

Smith A

Smith L

Spiller I

Stuckey B

Taylor O

Williams L

Xia O

Yu N

Year 9

Brant T

Forbes M

Huf B

Jenvey F

Lee M

Maher W

McCormack F

Slatter H

Wackwitz A

Willersdorf C

Year 8

Purcell B

Rugby Football

Full Colours

Year 12

Allen W

Craig X

Doe T

Hatzipetrou N

Madden N

McCauley C

McGregor L

Mooney B

Shaw R

Sheedy W

Strachan L

Tolhurst A

Willson J

Year 11

Pascoe W

Tong Law R

Year 10

Simpson S

Half Colours

Year 12

Akhavan O

Anderson L

Dutton H

Horton J

Hurwood T

Logan T

Mackay L

Martinez Briggs F

Meadmore W

Mellick S

Petersen C

Shaw W

Year 11

Chapman D

Davis J

Mellick R

Perry K

Samai C

Year 10

Knudsen T

Sports Award

Year 12

Aitken C

Boorer N

Brice H

Cavalerie F

Fitzgerald E

Holmes P

Jackson A

Jackson T

Jennings L

Kim D

Leves C

MacPherson J

Michael N

Nelson H

Parry J

Sayer G

Scriven H

Siganto S

Smith O

Smith Z

Spink J

Stewart D

Stoneley C

Thynne J

Ting Williams M

Vardy O

Wishart M

Wong I

Year 11

Brimblecombe S

Brown A

Butler D

Cameron S

Collins B

Coroneo D

Driessen N

Dutton T

Estensen H

Feltham D

Forbes S

Horton J

Huth T

Islam Z

Jury M

Lodge M

Lowe J

McCoy L

McGuire M

Munday C

Murphy A

Murray J

Nowlan L

Pope H

Reck L

Rimmington E

Schulz H

Smyth I

Ward S

Year 10

Akhavan O

Bourke X

Brand H

Cochrane R

Fitzgerald A

Horton F

Huntley L

Jackson A

Kendall B

Kenward J

Kimbell S

Lee Z

Manuel L

McPherson S

Reader Z

Romer M

Smith W

Year 9

Brant T

Breen E

Donaldson L

Driessen W

Enasio H

Hazzard S

Jenvey F

McNamara A

Ramalingam J

Russell L

Slatter H

Swan G

Wacker G

Wackwitz A

Wheeler R

Year 8

Begley O

Boorer A

Brand B

Carruthers I

Dalton L

Dauber O

Hay L

Horton N

List A

Mellick H

Munday H

Siganto J

Simpkins D

Year 7

Dunne G

Elliott T

Evans B

Mackay H

Slatter A

Szumowski L

Woolley M

Rugby Football Services

Full Colours

Year 12

Donald A

Mulholland J

Uscinski A

Half Colours

Year 11

McLeod A

Sailing Full Colours

Year 12

Murray M

Schotte I

Year 11

Harcourt E

Half Colours

Year 11

Rahman O

Year 8

Ai E

Sampson A

Year 7

Phun L

Sports Award

Year 12

Temesvari M

Senior

Dramatic Production

Full Colours

Year 12

Christie O

Logan T

Mount D

Moyle S

Sommerfeld A

Sprott A

von Hoyer Davies C

Year 11

Cardell Ree H

Davis J

Jury M

Kohn B

Lindgren J

Murphy L

Neep J

Service to Scholarship

Full Colours

Year 12

Donald A

Duncan J

Gilbert R

Murray M

Tam I

Tennakoon N

Swimming

Full Colours

Year 12

Anderson J

Holmes P

Jordan W

Mackay L

Mowbray H

Sayer G

Sommerville E

Steindl H

Year 11

McLeod A

Roy Bryant S

Year 8

Gao M

Nathan M

Simpkins D

Half Colours

Year 11

Mellick R

Rimmington E

Year 10

Bigby K

Nelson E

Year 8

Boorer A

Luo C

Slater H

Zhang S

Year 7

Elliott T

Sports Award

Year 12

Askew H

Boorer N

Castle E

Jackson T

Jennings L

Mellick S

Michael N

Nelson H

Siganto S

Wishart M

Year 11

Brittain T

Fidler S

Keeley R

Lodge M

Randall J

Scott Thompson K

Weightman N

Year 10

Chan T

Elliott L

Gao M

Lutton C

Lutz I

Ridoutt H

Romer M

Schnitzerling O

Sommerville R

Year 9

Anastasia L

Cook L

Nathan C

Pribadi R

Richardson I

Scholes H

Slatter H

Woodhouse R

Xue H

Zhou D

Year 8

Aleksiuk L

Baker L

Deacon C

Dwyer S

Hutton E

Kerr L

Kerr O

Lay A

Lynch O

Mellick H

Miller J

Nelson C

Poynter J

Siganto J

Xue J

Year 7

Barrett F

Clutterbuck W

Gorry J

Harris M

Hill O

Hirst S

Holmes J

Holt D

Ibrahim A

Lee E Lin C

McCarthy H

Meade Z

Nguyen J

Peters W Reid W

Saxil P

Srivastava S

Stonell C

Stuckey J

Vanderstoep O

Vaughan F

Tennis

Full Colours

Year 12

Jayathilake K

Tan O

Year 11

Fancutt S

Smyth I

Year 10

James A

Tuckwell C

Half Colours

Year 12

Beck Veldman F

Cayas D

Chinnappa

Siddham J

Dinh D

Hogarth Howes G

Huang E

Jayalath P

Nouri A

Sommerfeld A

Warburton Z

Year 10

Austin A

Murphy W

Zhuang A

Year 9

Bale A

Bashirzadeh R

Cook A

Lee M

Ma C

Year 7

Findlay H

Han L

Lisec Z

Patel S

Van der

Westhuizen T

Sports Award

Year 12

Allison D

Flaskas A

Hastie A

Howden W

Lo A

Pearson J

Year 11

Bae S

Bose I

Choi T

Clarke T

Khan R

Lee D

Ng S

Norris A

Sun D

Waller T

Whittam J

Year 10

Chen B

Chua I

Fitzpatrick C

Poll T

Year 9

Beikoff J

Kim A

Van der

Westhuizen J

Yantsch J

Young M

Year 8

Alphonso A

Bhende P

Chua A

Luo C

Track and Field

Full Colours

Year 12

Hooper M

Le Dan A

Logan T

Mackay L

Macpherson T

Mizuno K

Moss H

Raymond F

Sprott A

Thakur A

Year 11

Feltham D

Love E

Love J

Mackintosh B

Half Colours

Year 12

Ng D

Year 8

Boorer A

Sports Award

Year 12

Jackson T

Motley W

Rahman K

Tran J

Year 11

Anderson J

Chan D

Coroneo D

Gatehouse W

Jones E

Lyons T

Richards T

Rimmington E

Stevens T

Year 10

Austin A

Bourke X

Bui T

Chan T

Collins G

Elix H

Fitzgerald A

Forrest D

Gulliver T

Hames A

Harpham T

Knudsen T

Lutz I

Millsteed D

O’Brien J

Raad A

Renshaw C

Ridoutt H

Romer M

Soo N

Zeng M

Year 9

Beirne H

Bingham J

Brant T

Breen E

Clayton T

Enasio H

Gao H

Langdon A

Leotta S

Mann F

Qiu Tang A

White O

Year 8

Alphonso A

Baker L

Carruthers I

Chambers J

Dahiya Y

Dalton L

Dauber O

Deacon C

Hall C

Huang A

Kelso N

Lynch O

Mellick O

Munday H

Okonkwo V

Rothwell B

Sapsford J

Siganto J

Slater H

Wickramasekera D

Year 7

Bhatt A

Davies B

Huang E

Jackson B

Koch E

O’Connor W

Peters W

Sangster P

Saxil P

Vanderstoep O

Vaughan F

Woolley M

Year 6

Dalton G

Ekeocha D

Year 5

Huang H

Track and Field Services

Sports Award

Year 11

Butler D

Johnston N

Visual Art

Half Colours

Year 12

Bisset A

Year 11

Mizutani M

Volleyball

Full Colours

Year 12

Balthes B

Coyne M

Fitzgerald E

Graves A

Green J

Jennings L

McGregor L

Mizuno K

Moss H

Pruyn M

Ricato T

Sherington L

Strachan L

Taylor S

Teng N

Thynne J

Waite C

Year 11

VanderWal E

Half Colours

Year 12

Baxter H

Castle E

Cayas D

Ding A

Huang E

Mullan E

Sommerfeld A

Wang B

Sports Award

Year 11

Cao W

Cardell Ree H

Dempsey R

Gatehouse W

Hume A

Norris A

Saini T

Treacy J

Whittome B

Year 10

Akhavan O

Fitzgerald A

Gulliver T

McPherson S

O’Sullivan X

Pherous H

Romer M

Thynne R

Tu O

Year 9

Becker Y

Chan S

Gatehouse H

James J

Middleton J

Msalem O

Qiu Tang A

Russell L

Year 8

Boorer A

Dalton L

Huang A

Martin Z

Maybury H

Nakasato M

O’Sullivan F

Smith Z

Zhou L

Year 7

Cook A

Gough T

Greene W

Grey X

Hardie E

Ho H

Hu A

O’Shea C

Saini J

Volleyball Services

Full Colours

Year 12

Coyne M

Fitzgerald E

Green J

Jennings L

McGregor L

Sherington L

Taylor S

Teng N

Thynne J

Waite C

Sports Award

Year 9

Chan S

James J

Headmaster’s Valedictory Speech

I have the very pleasant task of welcoming you to the 2022 Valedictory Dinner.

In a week of many addresses, this one appeals to me greatly as I am on early, will speak briefly and offer nothing but good news.

This is an evening for the Valedictorians, their parents, the teachers and Year Group leaders Mr Conway and Mr Scholes.

This is a day and night of mixed emotions. I suggested to the young men of Year 12, in their Final Assembly in the Great Hall, that this is a time of sadness, a

time of joy, a time to reflect and a time to anticipate. I would suggest that parent emotions are no less ambivalent. I must say to the parents that your sons have been superb. Few groups have left with the same dignity and tone, and for that I am grateful.

The Valedictory Dinner is a significant occasion for these young men. It is the last occasion when they gather as a cohort. For years, they have lived, worked and played together within an environment where they have come to know each other well. That environment

has been a special one, with a powerful history and sense of tradition. I said to them earlier this year that it is people, each one of us, who are the school. Over these years, they have become both inheritors of a great school’s tradition and they have, each one of them, contributed in their own special way to that tradition.

At the first assembly this year, I reminded them that the School’s history is a powerful play that goes on year after year, and I invited them to contribute to that tale. As I looked at the faces that collectively

I urge them to keep contributing to their stories, and I implore them to think for themselves and to make their lives remarkable.

- Anthony Micallef

represent the seniors of 2022 at their final school assembly, I recounted their involvement and achievements. They are now well prepared to commence their own great drama.

Gentlemen, from now on, your days at BGS will become a reservoir for nostalgic reminiscences, many of which will no doubt be tinged with hyperbole, not unlike all good stories. Rest assured your schoolboy heroics will get better with the passing of the years. Each of you will have your favourite memories of school. They will remain with you long after you have forgotten how to integrate a trigonometric function or write a feature article.

As is appropriate, many memories of school will revolve around the people from whom and with whom you learned rather than the detail of what you learned. BGS teachers

impart the benefit of their wisdom in an almost indefinable way; by dialogue more than by preaching, by encouraging thinking and debate rather than rote learning.

I would like to pay a brief tribute to our staff. They genuinely care about the students and go to extraordinary lengths to support their intellectual and personal development. The young men who sit before me are a credit to themselves, their parents and

their teachers. I know I speak on behalf of the staff when I say we have enjoyed the privilege of supporting these young men in their endeavours.

My special thanks are extended to Mr Conway and Mr Scholes. The quality of the effort of the Year 12 students and their dignity and maturity in their departure owe much to the leadership and relationship built by these men. They and the Form Tutors have guided our graduates and now confidently present them to the world at large.

In bidding the class of 2022 farewell and wishing them success and happiness for the future, I urge them to keep contributing to their stories, and I implore them to think for themselves and to make their lives remarkable.

We are proud of their accomplishments and will follow their progress in the years to come. Please have an enjoyable evening.

School Captain’s Speech Day Address

For me, Speech Day is about coming together to celebrate our wonderful school community; to reflect on what we have achieved during the year; and to look forward to what lies ahead.

While we take the opportunity to recognise the outstanding academic and cocurricular achievements of our peers, and as important as those things are, today is also about recognising every boy who is a part of Brisbane Grammar School. It is about celebrating the strong community that can only be formed through everyone’s combined efforts.

It really does feel like just yesterday that I stood in front of a camera in an empty Great Hall, trying to imagine what a sea of non-socially distanced boys sitting in front of me would look like, and outlined the meaning of the vision of ‘Bleed Blue in 2022’ for the senior cohort. This vision was underpinned by three key pillars: commitment, challenge and community. With this, seniors aimed to inspire, in every boy, a strong sense of loyalty, solidarity and an enthusiastic passion for all things BGS, and to recognise that the light dark blue that runs through our veins unites and strengthens us. We encouraged every student to appreciate that if we are committed enough to BGS to ‘bleed blue’, the benefits to us – both as individuals and to the school as a whole – would be enormous. We challenged every boy, every day to give BGS everything he has got. This meant not just making the most of what the school offers but taking every opportunity to give back to the school. We encouraged the boys to always remember how

fortunate they are to attend BGS and to wholeheartedly embrace the lifeblood that is the light dark blue.

Looking back on the year, I can say with conviction we remained loyal to this vision. Using the three pillars of commitment, challenge and community, I would like to reflect on what we achieved as a school community this year.

Firstly, commitment. If the last few years have taught us anything, it is that no matter what life throws at us, it is imperative to remain committed and focused. Yet again,

between a Year 12 Form Senior and a Year 5 student during form class, or the sportsmanship that each player displayed in a Saturday morning fixture, everyone’s dedication to upholding the School’s proud culture was admirable.

This level of commitment to each other led to success across the cocurricular program, including an impressive total of five GPS Premiership wins in cricket, swimming, tennis, fencing and gymnastics. Such success would not have been possible without the enthusiastic leadership of the various Year 12 team captains and other senior team members, or the steadfast support of staff and coaches. I would like to recognise the outstanding effort by the sporting staff in keeping the cocurricular program on track, particularly in the early part of the year, when there was a changing landscape of postponements, cancellations and rescheduling.

the pandemic threw obstacles in our path with a two-week delay to the start of school, followed by more time away due to the floods at the end of February. Despite the disruptions, the seniors remained committed to step up as leaders and determined to set an example for the younger boys.

The evidence that students in every year level were committed to supporting each other, and doing both themselves and the school proud, was unavoidable. Whether this was through the interaction

Secondly, challenge. The challenge to ‘bleed blue’ in whatever activity each student was undertaking saw significant changes and improvements. For example, the newly modelled Reconciliation Action Group challenged the school community to think about how we could better to demonstrate our respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their culture. As a result of this, an Acknowledgement of Country is now performed every Friday at the beginning of Assembly.

Finally, community. There have been so many wonderful examples of our community coming together and supporting each other throughout the year. This includes Open Day, when students, staff and parents work together to showcase our wonderful school. It is also evident at the various musical concerts and performances held throughout the year, including the moving ANZAC Day march, where family and supporters came

Despite the disruptions, the seniors remained committed to step up as leaders and determined to set an example for the younger boys.

together to enjoy the incredible talent of our musicians. Another example of community is at the sell-out performances of the highquality dramatic productions presented by both the junior and senior schools.

Witnessing the passionate school spirit demonstrated by a sea of blue at all our significant cocurricular fixtures, led by the Year 12 Spirit Committee and our various King Gs, was a truly memorable experience.

While I have mentioned just a few examples of what it has meant to ‘Bleed Blue in 22’, this year’s successes are due to the efforts of the whole student body, with the Year 12 cohort proudly leading by example. While I and my fellow student leaders may be the ones seen speaking on Assembly each week, the success of this year does not come down to us. The entire 2022 senior cohort has stepped up to face many challenges and worked together to make our vision a reality. Amid an array of impressive sporting, academic and cultural accomplishments, this is what I have been most proud of this year. The culture we have set for the rest of the school is evident in the tight bonds that bind us together as a cohort. The class of 2022 is supportive, innovative, committed, hard-working, respectful, funny and so much more. I am grateful to have spent almost half my life forging friendships with such an incredible group of boys.

To the dedicated group of teachers and staff, led by Mr Micallef and Mr Carroll, on behalf of the entire community, I thank you as we are so lucky to have you at this school. Your expert mentorship and guidance during a significant developmental phase has been critical to our success and shaped us into young men who are wellequipped to make a meaningful contribution to society.

To our wonderful Head of Year and Deputy Head of Year,

Mr Conway and Mr Scholes, we can’t thank you enough for your leadership and the steadfast support you have provided to Year 12 students over the past six years. You have simply been amazing. On a personal note, I am so grateful to you both for helping to guide me through my role as School Captain. You answered my many questions at all hours of the day and night, and you were always ready with sound advice and humour when I needed it most.

To my fellow student leaders, Charlie, Lucas, Sam and Finn, thank you for your hard work and dedication this year. Your ability to rise to the challenges that we faced as a leadership team has been admirable.

It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge our wonderful parents and carers, of who are some of the most important members of our BGS community. I’m sure we don’t thank you frequently enough for investing in our futures, but we are forever grateful for the opportunity of a BGS education. Whether it be early morning drop offs at Spring

Hill or the boat shed, or late night lifts home from Northgate, or simply being present to provide us with love and support, we thank you.

I want to take this opportunity to thank my own personal support team, my anchors in a storm, my parents. For coming to watch many, many sporting fixtures and listen to many, many concerts; for volunteering over the years to help out at the uniform shop, the Art Show, at Open Day, at music concerts, at the ISC canteen; for being my clutch speech editors when I have left things just a little too late. I am so lucky to have you as my parents and immensely grateful for all you have done for me.

It has been an honour to serve as the captain of a school for which I am so proud to be a member of. I will be forever thankful for the opportunity. I wish the entire BGS community a relaxing and wellearned holiday break, and for every success in 2023. Thank you.

Class of 2022

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Prefects

Head of Year 12

In early 2017, I surveyed the amorphous mob of light blue that sprawled across the Year 7 social space in the Middle School courtyard. Since that day, these boys have become individuals to me and to each other, have journeyed together and have achieved so much. In that first year, activity days, Wing competitions and the first residential Moogerah experience were the first opportunities for students to connect. Importantly, that was the year where ‘many’ became ‘one’, where ‘I’ became ‘we’, and where ‘me’ became ‘us’. Where, as a cohort, the graduating Class of 2022 began their BGS Journey together. On behalf of all students and parents, I thank Ms Jacqui Zervos, who was followed by Mrs Rebecca Campbell as Head of Middle School, our then Assistant Head Of Year Ms Mel Eveleigh, the Middle School Leadership Team

and all Middle School teachers, particularly Tutors and Core Teachers, who played such an integral role in assisting the boys to settle in and feel part of our community. The solid base these teachers gave the boys allowed them to grow into fine young men, and I thank them.

The Seniors of 2022 started their final year at the School with both COVID and flood disruption. Despite that, they persevered and supported one another, determined to not allow a soggy start to the year dampen their spirits. They worked incredibly hard with their teachers to achieve their best, and their maturity saw them come to appreciate one another’s gifts and idiosyncrasies. They partnered with their teachers rather than opposed them. They cherished the lasts that occurred all too frequently, and I hope

those memories stay with them forever. Across sporting, cultural and academic achievements, the list of significant final moments is endless and different for every boy, and too long to list. But aside from those more obvious things, I think the Class of 2022 will miss the less obvious things a bit more. The fiercely competitive handball games played across four different areas at lunchtime. The sense of belonging that comes when they interlocked arms over one another’s shoulders and belted out an almighty war cry. The laughter that emanated from every social group within the social space. That familiarity of the faces that greeted them daily, of where they sat in each of their classes and who they sat with.

I would like to offer my sincere thanks to our Assistant Head of Year, Mr Brad Scholes, who took over the Head of Year reins on occasion and

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

— Albert Einstein 1879-1955

could always be depended upon to do a wonderful job. Mr Scholes was unwavering in his support of me and the Form Tutor team, but most importantly, in the care for the students every day. I would also like to acknowledge and thank our Parent Representative, Wendy Ricato. Wendy was incredible in the role, working tirelessly behind the scenes to bring together and galvanise our Community, making the Class of 2022’s journey even more memorable.

Further, I want to acknowledge the positive influence of key boarding staff and the School’s Senior Leadership Team. My sincere thanks to Mr Berian Williams-Jones and Mr Tim Fulton for their quality care and support of this cohort’s boarding students. Thank you to the entire Senior Leadership Team for the respective roles they have played in the stewardship of this cohort. While their influence has shaped them in ways the students may not understand I, on behalf of

the students, am indebted to them.

I spoke at regular junctions throughout the boys’ journey about the wonderful legacy laid down by the previous generations of BGS students, and their responsibility to uphold and further contribute to it. The School and parents have worked together to develop the seniors into young men of character who can contribute positively to their community. We look forward to seeing the wonderful

contributions to the world that the Class of 2022 make into the future. I can be certain that they will continue to make us proud.

This year in particular has taught us that life is precious and sometimes agonizingly fleeting. I leave you with a quote from American poet and activitist Maya Angelou, an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement who passed away in 2014. I believe that her words are a wonderful guide for leading a fulfilling life and a sentiment that I shared with the Class of 2022 at their Valedictory Dinner. Ms Angelou said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

It has been an honour to be Head of Year for the graduating Class of 2022 and I wish them all the very best for their futures.

They worked to achieve their best, and their maturity saw them come to appreciate one another’s gifts and idiosyncrasies

Senior Formal

Year 11

The cohort’s first year of senior studies began in an ominously familiar fashion, with the commencement year level assembly streamed online. This anti-climactic start did, however, ensure we were enthusiastic about finally returning to campus.

In many respects this set the tone for much of 2022, with the cohort eager to make the most of every opportunity following two years of significant disruption and disconnection. As we look forward to taking the reins of the School in 2023, we no doubt look back on the penultimate year of our BGS journey with satisfaction.

Within the classroom, 2022 saw the onset of senior courses of study. New classmates, new teachers, and in many cases entirely new subjects

– a notable transition. The challenge required a new approach and a culture of collaboration, which was rapidly established in our Extended Preparation periods in the Lilley Centre. Whether passionately debating the representation of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby or making sense of deductive Euclidean geometry in Unit 1 of Specialist Maths, it was clear that learning was our core business, and the group was intent on supporting each other to reach their potential.

Beyond the classroom, the cohort continued their exemplary commitment to a diverse array of Public Purpose initiatives, from travelling to Cape York to engage with Indigenous Elders on their homelands to assembling flatpack furniture in women’s shelters to coordinating the Push Up Challenge to raise awareness of mental health challenges.

In the performing arts, the Senior Dramatic Production of Lord of the Flies was an engrossing exploration of societal deterioration, while Grammar Community in Concert showcased the exemplary talents of BGS musicians.

In sport, the year level was well represented in flagship teams, contributing to an array of premiership and championship victories.

For most, the highlight of 2022 was the annual Charity Social

held with Brisbane Girls Grammar School. The boys turned out in elegant suits and turned up on the dance floor. As well as developing and renewing ties with BGGS, the event – one of the few occasions where we socialise as an entire cohort – also brought the year level together through a positive shared experience.

To prepare for leadership opportunities afforded to Year 12 students, twilight training experiences and roles as outdoor education leaders engaged boys in an array of challenges to recognise and develop their personal leadership style. Participants developed an awareness of the fact that different contexts call for different approaches, and that effective leaders employ a variety of leadership styles responsive to the given situation. This awareness of the diversity of leadership qualities was reflected in the selection of 2023 Prefects. The announcement of these roles

– along with the announcement of Form Seniors later in Term 4 –marked a significant transitional moment for the cohort.

In late November, the Senior Leaders presentation saw parents and Form Tutors present boys with their senior badges and ties in recognition of each student and their role as a leader in 2023. Bringing the year level community together, this event allowed us to reflect on how far we have come, while also appreciating the magnitude of the year ahead.

In closing, I would like to thank Assistant Head of Year Mr Tim Holzgrefe and the Year 11 Form Tutors who supported the cohort, celebrated their successes and helped them learn from disappointments. Having assumed these roles when the boys were in Year 9, they have forged strong relationships with the group over the past three years. These bonds will be vital as we support students in reaching their potential next year.

I would also like to thank Year 11 Parent Representative Berthine Ommensen for her continued efforts in connecting our community.

As we approach the end of our penultimate year, there is a notably different tone to the final stanzas of previous years: whereas in the past there has been a sense of trepidation about the unknown, the end of Year 11 sees the boys enthusiastic and eager to lead the School in 2023. We are confident they are ready for the big year ahead, and we look forward to the successful culmination of a journey that commenced in 2018.

Year 10

The start of 2022 was anything but conventional. In keeping with the unpredictable nature of the previous two years, we started the school year online rather than walking through the BGS gates. With open borders and opportunities for unrestricted travel, a decision to delay the start of the school year and move online was made amid another surge in COVID-19 case numbers.

As we have all learnt to adapt over the past few years, 2022 was no different. After time learning online, we finally returned to the classroom in person. It was a relief as we could once again share in some laughter that we had all been missing for weeks.

There is little doubt that the year had it challenges. Throughout the first semester, students and staff had to juggle attendance with illness and quarantine. While

the academic and cocurricular life continued, albeit a little differently at times, we learnt that adversity brings us together. Not only did we battle the pandemic, but wild weather brought along some new challenges.

Long periods of teeming rain created worry and disruption for families grappling with flooding. Sporting grounds submerged and moving around the school grounds became uncomfortable and arduous. The competing forces of the pandemic and rain made for a

difficult first six months in Year 10. But these obstacles did not dampen the spirits of our students, who confidently continued in their classes. They stayed focused on their academic future, holding deep conversations despite some consternation on what subjects to choose for 2023. They became acutely aware of the importance of Year 10 in preparation of entering their senior studies.

As we moved into Semester 2, COVID-19 restrictions eased and we returned to some pre-pandemic

normalcy. The return of the full Outdoor Education program was a sign that darker times were clearing. The boys embraced this opportunity, and their last class trip to Moogerah was not lost on them. For the first time, we invited parents to join them for lunch on the final day of each camp. In an enthusiastic response, families travelled to Hill and experienced the centre at its finest – a dam at capacity and a landscape bathed in shades of green.

In the shadow of the emerging STEAM Precinct, the cohort continued to foster an inclusive culture. One of my joys has been witnessing the flow of boys playing football or touch on the oval. Not bound by friendship groups, the boys would come together for exercise and fun during their breaks. Handball – last seen in Year 7 – found new life on the concrete, while others played card games. As a cohort, they bonded over mateship and mutual respect, which if protected, will support them in their senior years of learning.

Fortunately, the year came to an end in a more familiar fashion. Amid the chaos and adversity, however, we uncovered what can be achieved if we show respect, gratitude and understanding of what it is like to walk in the shoes of others.

As the jacaranda trees bloom around us, a new chapter in our journey beckons. As a year group, we are ready for unfamiliar challenges supported by our friendships, teachers, and importantly, our Form Tutors.

In January, we will meet in a different social space, each of us with hopes and goals. If the last few years have taught us anything, things can change suddenly.

However, with this cohort working together side-by-side, we will always be ready.

Year 9

Although I have only known the future graduating class of 2025 for a short time, I have gained an excellent understanding of the collective ethos of this cohort.

At the beginning of the year, the inevitable teething problems associated with the transition from

the Middle School to the Senior School were embraced by the Year 9 boys. Accepting change within each stride, they had accepted the expectations and tempo of their new environment by the end of Term One.

The transition brings many challenges, such as long trousers, increased subject workload, moving classrooms for different lessons, new teachers and a greater

emphasis on independent learning. The boys quickly adjusted to become fully-fledged members of the Senior School. An interesting aspect of all cohort transitions is watching where each group claims a stake in the precious real estate within the Newell Quadrangle. Once the boys found their ‘slice of paradise’ in the social space, new friendships blossomed and Senior School life became second nature.

Growing freedoms and developing maturity quickly became evident in the classrooms despite academic demands posing difficulties. The students accepted new challenges with determination and grace. The result has been outstanding achievements at national and international academic competitions, where our students have been remarkable. The culture of academic excellence within this cohort will serve them well when they reach Year 12.

A desire to work hard, do their best and stay connected also

become apparent outside of the classroom in sport, music and culture. A growing number of Year 9 students have made it into the premier ensembles, orchestras and bands. The level of talent in this year’s Junior Dramatic Production DNA was phenomenal. In the athletic arena, the boys also excelled in all the GPS sports. I would like to make a special mention to the 9A Debating team, the 9B Volleyball team, the 9B Football team, the Year 9 First Rowing Quad and the 9A Tennis team. They all finished as GPS Premiers or Runners Up – well done.

Of all the school activities I’m involved in as Assistant Head of Year, the one I enjoy most is spending time at Moogerah. Watching the boys challenge themselves in a unique environment is wonderful, and on many occasions, I watched as they navigated their way up the climbing wall and along the high ropes course. I would like to extend my gratitude to Mr Derek Jervis and his team, who do an incredible job in getting the most out of the boys at Moogerah.

I would like to thank Mr Larry Carmichael for being an outstanding mentor over the past year, and Mr Adrian Howard for

stepping into the Assistant position in Term 4. Managing a cohort of 263 adolescent boys can be challenging indeed, and their support has been invaluable.

I am sure 2023 will provide many new challenges. The boys, however, have a year of senior schooling under their belt, and I am confident the ‘Class of 2025’ will continue to go from strength to strength.

Year 8

The Year 8 cohort of 2022 has achieved consistently positive results in both the classroom and cocurricular arena, proving to be wonderful leaders and role models for the entire Middle School. They should be proud.

Students worked hard to deliver high-quality academic assessments and have excelled in external academic competitions thanks to help from guest experts and

peer tuition in the Consolidation Period. The group’s academic achievements come as no surprise given the enormous effort and determination demonstrated by each and every boy in 2022. All staff – both academic and support – are thrilled with their dedication.

Thought-provoking concerts wowed audiences as part of the Music program, and the Middle School Dramatic Production was a phenomenal undertaking, with strong performances by student actors in the metaphorical adaption of a fantasy tale in Journey

to Awedon. The clever script highlights the notion of a mythical quest, and the morality of right and wrong in challenges faced by us all. In the Debating Halls, students maintained their wonderful record of success in the GPS and QDU competitions, where their perseverance and commitment proved second-to-none. A record number of students have embraced debating.

These traits extended to Swimming and Cross Country. Despite a mighty effort, our talented cricket teams fell just

short of competition leadership. It was a similar fate for our Football program. In further cementing our cohort’s inspiring sporting performances, the Rugby teams made promising displays of improvement. Their leadership helped to galvanise Rugby for younger students, while the camaraderie in the Year 8 Basketball teams was nothing short of a joy to watch.

Beyond their success and excellence, a culture of giving and helping others resonated with the boys who committed to many Public Purpose opportunities. They assisted local groups to fundraise substantial and muchneeded money for worthy charities. Throughout the year, staff continued to be impressed and lauded their efforts in the field of gender respect and fundraising for many important causes.

The leadership displayed by the cohort has been far-reaching and genuine as has the contributions by Griffith House members, who were busy organising interwing carnivals with a sense humility and pride. Year 8 students excelled in every opportunity, continually

painting the Middle School in a good light, and embodying the spirit of friendship that is so central to BGS. Working on driving student authenticity, the Class Captains organised Middle School assemblies, receiving universally positive feedback. Whether the activity was organised or incidental, the year group’s contribution to the BGS spirit has been tangible.

The Year 8 cohort has left behind a legacy of commitment, excellence and humility in the Middle School. Their journey has been defined by

their awe-inspiring actions.

The boys are deeply indebted to the staff, teachers, coaches, and mentors of the Middle School. Ms Mel Eveleigh is adored by the cohort, and the efforts of Rebecca Campbell to administer the entire Middle School is appreciated by every family.

2023 and Year 9 promises a great deal.

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Year 7

Resilient, relieved and keen to return to normalcy after the disruptions of 2021, our Year 7 students began the year delighted for fresh beginnings on our beautiful campus.

The new year brought new surprises, however, with extreme weather events and another wave of COVID-19 requiring us to pivot once more. As a consolation prize, the early arrival of the boys’ tablets had them excited, as teachers handed out work booklets and offered online learning opportunities.

Once we were finally able to welcome students back to campus, we celebrated with belated Orientation and Activities days.

The Outdoor Education program, at Pepperina Hill, quickly cemented those friendships that had been made online during Tutor Groups at the start of Term 1. Year 11 leaders offered friendship, advice and support when the Year 7 boys faced physical and learning challenges outside their of comfort zone.

Back in the classroom, students quickly settled into a routine with a focus on goal setting and self-reflection to ensure positive and healthy student wellbeing in preparation for the busy year that awaited them. The daily Consolidation Period saw students learn pragmatic study and

organisational skills via online videos led by their Form Tutors.

In sports, music and cultural curriculum, many boys showcased incredible talent and dedication in a bid to inspire their peers and encourage participation. In particular, Class Captains and Public Purpose students offered their time and expertise to promote both local and Australia-wide events.

The interwing Volleyball event set the tone for healthy competition

in the Middle School, with high participation rates fuelling energetic fun between the students. In Term 2, we again witnessed friendly rivalry as the boys raced in the Cross Country.

Other events, including Signature Program and Rome Day, created excitement and opportunities for the students to embody the BGS values (Respect, Community, Endeavour, Learning and Leadership).

In Semester 2, Head of Year

Sharee Verdon unfortunately had to take unexpected leave, resulting in myself and Dean Littlefair supporting the cohort. Fortunately, the cohort already showed strong signs of unity and cohesion.

Throughout the year, students continually demonstrated eagerness to pursue opportunities beyond the classroom, including the Middle School Dramatic Production Journey to Awedon, the interwing Track and Field and Swimming carnivals.

The cohort is well-equipped to lead the Middle School student community in 2023, having been expertly guided by our Form Tutor team. They did a wonderful job providing quality care, despite the disruptions of external events. Year 8 will provide more opportunities for students to learn from their experiences and continue to develop a sense of purpose as they transition to the Senior School.

I would like to thank our Year 7

parent representative, Cathy Findlay, for her ongoing support, as well as our parent body for engaging in our tripartite approach to the boys’ education. Parental collaboration is essential in safeguarding the boys’ development and success, and we look forward to continuing these productive partnerships in the year to come.

Year 6

2022 provided the Year 6 cohort with another valuable set of experiences that further enriched their educational journey and created wonderful opportunities for personal growth and wellbeing.

With the benefit of their development in Year 5, the boys transitioned to Year 6 eager for new experiences. Their engagement across academic, sporting and cultural activities and their to work together has ensured the positive overall development and continued success of the cohort.

In Term 1, an orientation program enabled the boys to reconnect, re-

engage and build new relationships. Team based activities and games provided the opportunity for collaboration, dialogue and fun. Form Tutors established a basis for positive class cultures guiding the boys through the new expectations of Year 6 and framing the journey ahead. The Student Wellbeing program provided guidance on friendship, social connectedness and a positive mindset to further support the boys in their transition. New Form Seniors also assisted the boys as they adjusted to their new class groups. The boys responded positively and settled into their new year level quickly and happily, showing a strong sense of belonging and connectedness.

Boys took part in a variety of academic experiences such running a mock election, creating a Middle School economy, undertaking extensive research tasks on global issues, collaborative literature projects, composing speeches, and designing and running experiments provided a wide range of academic experiences. Visiting authors provided unique encounters with writing and literature. Mark Greenwood’s tales thoroughly entertained the boys and Pat Flynn

ensured that Book Week activities were engaging and informative. As the year progressed, the boys matured as learners, developing increased capacity for persistence, self-awareness and reflection. Many boys built their resilience and found new resoureces within themselves to tackle academic challenges.

Year 6 boys were also deeply engaged in the sporting and cultural life of the school this year. Many boys took great pride in playing for the School across a number of sports. As the seasons progressed the bonds boys developed by playing together were increasingly evident and strengthened the group. Throughout the year, the boys eagerly participated in a variety of Interwing events, including Track and Field, Swimming, and the running of the annual Middle School Mile.

The fierce rivalry of our North, South, East and West wings was ever present until this year’s winners, East Wing, were crowned victorious!

Cocurricular clubs provided another important avenue of endeavour. Catering for individual interests, clubs were a place

for boys to engage in a relaxed environment and were an outlet for individual expression. Debating and Public Speaking were also popular activities this year. In addition to all students studying classroom music for one semester, a large percentage of boys engaged each week in tuition and ensemble performance programs. Year 6 classes spent time exploring and unpacking the Elements of Music as part of a special Effective Thinking Cultures teacher development project and applied this new knowledge in their own compositions. Boys who joined this year’s Vocal Group performed at several events such as Grammar in Concert at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and the Middle School Presentation Afternoon at QPAC. They also attended the Junior Music Retreat, workshopping with guest conductor Jenny Moon.

Community events were also a positive influence in the life of the boys. The boys hosted grandparents for a celebration of Grandparents’ Day, swapping stories of school days and sharing morning tea, before presenting a concert to an enthralled audience. Impressive solos by Ira Adib, Christopher Lee, Damai Lu, Christopher Lee and Bryan Sun highlighted a most entertaining program. The boys obvious enthusiasm underscored the importance of opportunities to develop a strong sense of appreciation, gratitude and community. The annual Year 6 Picnic, held in Term 4, gave parents

and caregivers an opportunity to join in games.

This year’s annual Year 6 tour of Far North Queensland proved a wonderful experience for all. Staying in Port Douglas, the boys ventured out to visit various sites, including Hartley’s Crocodile Park, Kakadu, Mossman Gorge and the Daintree River. Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef on a perfect Queensland day was an exhilarating experience and the boys thoroughly enjoyed their time away together. The boys returned home with a great sense of independence and satisfaction having completed this Year 6 rite-of-passage.

Throughout the year the boys’ personal development has been central. Personal decision making based on the School’s values (Respect, Community, Endeavour, Learning and Leadership) has been at the centre of their development. The exploration of important topics within the Student Wellbeing program such as positive relationships, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, digital citizenship and cyber safety provided the boys with strategies and skills to assist them to negotiate complex and challenging areas for their age group. The consistent exposure to positive character-building messages and the promotion of individuals who

are values driven, people-centred, appreciative of opportunity, selfmotivated in their endeavour and community minded further supported the boys’ development. The overnight camp to Pepperina Hill in the last term allowed the boys to take stock of the year and consider how they had changed as individuals and as a group. In many ways they are learning to see beyond themselves and better understand their ability to support and strengthen one another to build a stronger cohort as they grow together each year. The camp proved to be a wonderful event to cap off the school year.

I extend my sincere thanks to our Form Tutor team: Ms Coombe, Mr Murray, Ms Lindsay and Ms Ragen, and Assistant Head of Year 5 and 6 Mr Shears, for their care and support of the Year 6 cohort this year. On behalf of the Year 6 teachers and boys, I sincerely thank our Parent Representative, Samille Loch-Wilkinson, her team of parent volunteers and all parents of our boys for their support in 2022.

It has been a pleasure to see the boys progress in their BGS journey. I wish them every success as they move on to Year 7 in 2023 and in their future endeavours.

Year 5

The 2022 school year began with much excitement for our new Year 5 cohort. Since entering the Great Hall to begin their BGS journey, the boys have experienced many exciting adventures, challenges and lessons that have shaped their individual and collective development.

An extensive orientation program at the start of Term 1 guided the boys to become familiar with one another and BGS culture. They learnt about daily school routines and practices, and worked on fostering positive social connections. Form Tutors shaped each classroom culture based on the BGS values (Respect, Community, Endeavour, Learning and Leadership) and implemented Student Wellbeing curriculum based on the theme of positive relationships. A day out at the Outdoor Education Centre at

Lake Moogerah was integral to the orientation process, providing wonderful opportunities for social bonding amidst the fun of an exciting program that included a low ropes course, rafting and orienteering. Selected Form Seniors, attached to each of the classes, fulfilled the vital function of adding extra support for the boys as they navigated their first term.

The academic program offered experiences designed to promote the boys’ engagement with their learning, cultivate a sense of endeavour and develop a culture of thinking. The boys explored Brisbane together as part of the History course, learning about colonial Queensland and Brisbane’s early settlement and setting off for an adventure to St Helena Island where they fell into the hands of old-time prisoners, warders and guards (actor tour guides) who regaled them with fascinating historical accounts and anecdotes of the harsh realities of life in the penal

settlement. A highly comedic mockflogging of a staff member provided much delight to the audience! Later in the year, the boys took on the role of a scientist for our Savvy Scientist afternoon after having conducted an extensive research project. Dressed as their selected scientist, the boys presented enthusiastically, showcasing their discoveries and life stories to their teachers and visiting parents. Book Week also provided a range of activities to celebrate literature, including a visit by author Pat Flynn, and collaborative and design thinking activities were a feature of the Signature Programs, which added yet another dynamic aspect to the boys’ learning experiences. Performer and teacher Gwenda Stanley brought Indigenous dance and stories alive during her visit with the boys.

Sporting and cultural activities also motivated the boys. The camaraderie, interdependence and personal growth fostered through these activities made

a significant contribution to the overall development of many boys. As the weeks passed, signs of growing confidence and collective spirit became more evident across the cohort. The Interwing events also provided much enjoyment, evident in the teamwork, friendly competition, and collective cheer that ruled the day on each of these occasions. The boys celebrated the rivalry among the wings (North, South, East and West), and the intensity of the competition remained undiminished until East were crowned this year’s overall champions. The boys’ efforts to develop good sportsmanship and represent the School were commendable across the range of programs.

This year’s cohort also gained much from the richness of our Music program. From weekly classroom music lessons featuring lots of

singing, movement challenges, musicianship exercises and games to the Vocal Group, Chamber Choir or instrumental groups, the boys took the opportunity to develop musically, and participation across the year proved the value of this aspect of their education. This year, the boys continued to sing in scheduled mini singing sessions once a fortnight to reinforce musical concepts and foster a positive relationship with music making. At the end of Term 4, our Year 5 musicians performed spectacularly at the Middle School Music Concert to celebrate the end of their yearlong instrumental immersion program.

Many also chose to participate in Debating and Public Speaking. The Public Speaking Competition is always a highlight, and this year proved to be no different with an audience glued to our compelling finalists as they informed the boys’ thinking on a range of topics.

Community events have also shaped the experience of the Year 5 cohort. The annual Mother’s Day Morning Tea provides the opportunity for the boys to express their appreciation, and they show immense pride and excitement in being hosts to their mothers. After sharing morning tea together, the boys performed a wonderful concert in the Great Hall. This year’s concert program featured anopportunity for the boys to

teach their mums a song as part of the performance, resulting in an emotional and cherished moment for all. Leo Koch, Soren Fripp and William Di gave entertaining solo instrumental performances, and the cohort choir performed an rendition of “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon”, a memorable highlight of this in a most entertaining program.

The Year 5 camp to Tallebudgera in the final term is always a time the boys look forward to and this year was no different. Boys took part in a host of fun activities including stand up paddle boarding, canoeing, bush walking, beach activities, kite making and test firing their own rockets. This year, the boys had the opportunity to do a high ropes course which proved to be most popular! The camp marks a rite of passage for all Year 5 boys and a memorable part of their journey together.

I extend my sincere thanks to our Year 5 Form Tutor team: Ms Child, Ms Gardner, Mr Hawkins and Mr Hunter; and to our parent representative, Victoria Edwards, and her team of parent volunteers for their support to the Year 5 cohort throughout the year.

Our Year 5 boys can look forward with confidence to the next stage of their BGS journey. I wish them well as they step up to Year 6 in 2023.

Outdoor Education

The Outdoor Education program aims to help students develop knowledge and understanding of organisational, teamwork and leadership-based competencies through unique experiences on the water, in the bush and at heights. They build on their dispositions as both learners and leaders by drawing upon the School’s values.

It was a tumultuous start to 2022 due to COVID-19 restrictions followed by flooding at Moogerah. Years 7 and 8 students participated in a modified program. Thankfully, all classes participated in an outdoor education experience this year.

The Middle School program develops the boys’ skills through activities focused on learning, respect, endeavour and community in preparation for the longer expeditions in Years 9, 10 and 11, when leadership responsibilities come into play. The Year 5 and 6 trips were not impacted by the pandemic or the weather, allowing students to enjoy the full experience of the outdoor program.

Year 7 students engaged in the cultural education program, where they participated in a traditional Acknowledgement of Country by BGS teacher Mr Jon Hodges. They sang, danced and learnt about

Indigenous skills and language, before hiking on Wumman (Mount Edwards). The Year 8 cohort embraced the expedition to Bitenbar, where they cooked on camp stoves and slept in tents. The Year 9 cohort enjoyed the challenge of taking on more leadership roles through cooking and navigation, which allowed the teachers to take a step back so students could take ownership.

A new rock-climbing wall and abseiling site opened to the Year 10 students who all relished in the four different climbs and abseiling at the

Bitenbar Lower Cliffs. The natural climbing site is the final progression in height activities for the Outdoor Education program.

BGS students continue to be instrumental in the Bitenbar reforestation plan. This year, they contributed 600 hours to land care, which involved tree planting and controlling invasive species at Bitenbar and Pepperina Hill. A new ritual to mark the end of outdoor education for Year 10 students was introduced this year, with parents and caregivers invited to Moogerah to share a final meal together while reflecting on each student’s Outdoor Education journey.

Reflecting on his time at Moogerah, Year 10 student Thomas Ruddell says camaraderie has made his experiences unique.

“We ascended Mount Moon, Greville and Edwards. A line of young boys driven by mateship and comradery.

“The shared sense of accomplishment of reaching peaks together easily surpassed the usual day by day individual achievements. Often in school life we pursue individual excellence through

academic, sporting and cocurricular events.

“Moogerah, for me, has always nurtured and evoked the companionship that many young boys seek to embrace in everyday life.

“On the morning ‘fun’ runs as you round the corner, and the dam comes into sight, the sheer scale of Mount Edwards reminds you that the world is so much bigger than just yourself. This feeling is often found as we scramble the final ascents.

“This year, after four and a half hours of straight hiking in the rain, 13 other boys and I summitted Mount Moon. The clouds had coated the peak in a dense fog. We were left with no view after a brutal hike.

“The boys were exhausted and disappointed, yet deep inside we all felt the nagging truth. That truth being, that together through encouragement and mateship we had pushed each other to summit Mt Moon not as 14 individuals but rather as one team.

“The opportunity for such great mateship repeatedly occurs at Moogerah. Through all activities, duties, challenges, and hardships

even the most independent, stubborn souls find themselves relying on other boys.

“Moogerah has taught me to cherish and embrace moments of camaraderie, as it is in these moments that we achieve the most.”

Harlin and Griffith House

Back row (L to R): Bennett Chen, Angus Norris, Will Pascoe, Will Henderson, Angus Newman, Maclean Williams, Lachlan Hartley.

Fifth row (L to R): Jason Tan, Benjamin Treacy, Charles Harris, Marcus Lynch, John Treacy, Harro Schulz, Doug Chapman, Jake Edwards, Tony Meng, Tom Harris, Samuel Chappell, Hugo Elix, Hamish Stewart.

Fourth row (L to R): Ian Chow, Claren Samai, Isaac Chan, Curtis Lin, Shannon Simpson, Kody Perry, Ngailu Thompson, Will Smith, Harper Enasio, Henry Tuma, Hoby Kulla Kulla, Tom Siganto, Gideon Gware, John Matthew Vellacott.

Third row (L to R): Henry Liu, Johan Zhang, Jed Siganto, Borui Robertson-Zheng, Ben Le, Xavier Leung, Rylan Pribadi, Nicky Garnsey, Dominic Fan, Harry Xue, Aidan Yeung, Thierry Kwok, Nathan Xu, Bart Ashman, Wayne Cheung.

Second row (L to R): Riyaz Paudyal, Jerry Xue, Miller Lin, Darcy Lewis, William Wei, Bren Bird, Jeremy Boo, Josh Poh, Jeremy Omowaire, Alexander Keir, Rupert Drew, Xavier Grey, Bharathi Kumar, Max Simpson.

First row (L to R): Austin Fan, Chanula Wanasinghe, Angus Lo, Ned Madden, Mrs Debbie Cross (Houseparent), Mr

Boarding

This year will long be remembered as the year when the new Harlin House was opened. Following three terms spent in 89 Gregory Terrace, with a daily commute to and from campus, January saw the senior boarders located back on site once again, and the residential community re-established in one precinct.

The refurbished Harlin House has seen the 1972 building reimagined and at one stage of the works, the building was no more than an exterior shell. The new living environment has provided our older boarders with a completely new boarding experience.

Individual rooms with their own air conditioning system saw the Headmaster coin the phrase “the Harlin Hilton”, and while we have yet to introduce the trappings of a high-end hotel, the comparative luxury experienced by our Year 12

boarders is in stark contrast to the rooms they experienced in their junior years.

The privacy now afforded to all boys has truly redefined boarding life. The privacy of your own room has been especially well received and with break out spaces on each floor being a natural congregation point at the end of the school day, or on weekends. Both houses have truly become a home away from home for the boarding community.

Boarding recruitment has been a challenging topic for many schools of late, and especially during COVID-19 for those who were reliant on the overseas market.

The renovations in Griffith and Harlin have certainly proved to be the missing piece of the puzzle. Allied to various other initiatives over the past six years, including a new staffing structure, investment in boarding recruitment and various intentional actions introduced to

evolve a culture of care for each boy, these investments have most certainly played their part in the rekindling of Boarding.

It is a delight to end the year on a high given the hurdles we have all faced along the way. 2022 proved in many ways more difficult than the previous 24 months. We finally had to face the challenges of COVID-19, and indeed of other routine illnesses that we had all been shielded from in our isolation. The Health Centre, to their very great credit, played a sterling role in looking after then boarders in the most trying of circumstances. Both resilience and the ability to problem solve with little notice became the order of the day, and there is much we can take away from the experiences and the example set by our nursing staff.

Sam Siganto and Finnian BeckVeldman were outstanding as the Captain and Vice-Captain of BGS Boarding. In a time of considerable

turmoil and change they provided a steady hand on the tiller and brought great compassion and authenticity to the community, especially the senior years. We equally thank the Boarding Prefects, Chad Leves, Angus Lo, Ned Madden, Will Motley and Chanula Wanasinghe for their respective stewardship of boys and events.

As a leadership team they have

most certainly set the bar high and have proven wonderful examples to all. We wish Doug Chapman well in his role as Captain of Boarding, and to the Boarding Prefect team of Xavier Leung, Ngailu Thompson, John Treacy and Harro Schulz.

In Griffith House, we were once again fortunate to be able to call upon the services of Mr Graham Power and Mrs Debbie Power. Their utter commitment to the role and genuine care for those boys in their charge ensures that they provide an excellent starting point for our younger boarders. There is little doubt that the firm foundations they have laid ensure the boys are well set when they progress to Harlin in due course.

At the start of this year, we appointed Mrs Debbie Cross as our new Houseparent to succeed Angela Dunn. Over the course of the year Mrs Cross has shown herself to be the lynchpin of the team. She has been an advocate

of the young men in her care, a powerful voice for their wellbeing, and brought great care and compassion to the community. It is evident why she is so well liked and respected by boys and their families alike, and we recognise we are fortunate to have her work at BGS Boarding.

January also saw a new leader at the helm of Harlin House. Mr Tim Fulton succeeded Mr Nick Byron in running the senior boarding residence and assumed the additional responsibility of Assistant Director of Boarding. In the most testing of circumstances, Mr Fulton

has shown himself to be a natural in the Boarding environment. He has brought a student-centred focus to the community and the natural and obvious bond he has formed with the senior boarders says much about his approach in the residential precinct, and we thank him for his contribution to date.

This year we farewelled three members of staff from our boarding community. Mr Dan Ritchie has been a Boarding Tutor for the past four years having previously worked in the residential communities at Nudgee College and St Peter’s. We wish Dan well in his new role at

Ascot State School. The end of the year has also seen Mr Chris Wigell, and Mr Harry Higgins depart the residential team. We thank both for all their hard work and endeavour over the past twelve months.

We recognise and pay our sincere thanks to all who contribute to and support the wider boarding program. Our Boarding Tutors have continued to provide wonderful leadership of the house families and the work in setting the tone has done much to evolve the culture in Boarding. So too, we thank our residential team who have certainly gone the extra mile in this past year, in caring for our boarders in the most challenging of circumstances and doing so with good heart and with great humour.

Finally, we thank the village of departments that help raise the child. From Catering and Laundry, to Cleaning and the Maintenance departments and many individuals in-between, we thank each one of them for their committed service to boarders and staff alike.

Harlin House

Back row (L to R): Doug Chapman, Tom Harris, Tony Meng, Lachlan Hartley, Angus Norris, Will Pascoe, Will Henderson, Angus Newman, Maclean Williams, Harro Schulz.

Fourth row (L to R): Ngailu Thompson, Harper Enasio, Charles Harris, Kody Perry, Hamish Stewart, Hugo Elix, Thomas Chan, Samuel Chappell, Benjamin Treacy, John Treacy, Jake Edwards, Will Smith.

Third row (L to R): Rylan Pribadi, Ben Le, Ian Chow, Tom Siganto, Isaac Chan, Henry Tuma, Shannon Simpson, Hoby Kulla Kulla, Claren Samai, Gideon Gware, John Matthew Vellacott, Xavier Leung, Josh Poh.

Second row (L to R): William Wei, Rupert Drew, Alexander Keir, Jeremy Boo, Aidan Yeung, Dominic Fan, Nicky Garnsey, Harry Xue, Thierry Kwok, Jeremy Omowaire, Bren Bird, Darcy Lewis,

Front row (L to R): Bennett Chen, Chanula Wanasinghe, Angus Lo, Ned Madden, Mr Tim Fulton (Head of Harlin House / Assistant Director of Boarding), Sam Siganto (Captain of Boarding) Mr Berian Williams-Jones (Director of Boarding), Finnian Beck-Veldman (Vice Captain of Boarding), Mrs Debbie Cross (Boarding Tutor), Chad Leves, William Motley, Oscar Harris, Austin Fan.

Griffith House

Back row (L to R): Nathan Xu, Johan Zhang, Curtis Lin, Marcus Lynch, Jason Tan, Henry Liu

Middle Row (L to R): Xavier Grey, Wayne Cheung, Jed Siganto, Borui Robertson-Zeng, Bartholomew Ashman, Miller Lin

Front Row (L to R): Maxwell Simpson, Bharathi Kumar, Mrs Debbie Power (Senior Boarding Tutor), Mr Berian Williams-Jones (Director of Boarding), Mr Graham Power (Senior Boarding Tutor), Jerry Xue, Riyaz Paudyal

Absent: Jackson Peck

Senior Library

The Library is a community hub and haven for students to relax, collaborate, connect and thrive. It provides quiet spaces for study and reading, as well as group areas for dynamic discussions and collaborative learning.

BGS Library staff value diversity, inclusivity and mental health awareness. We reflect this through the continual development of the collection and creation of displays that celebrate these themes. This year the Library staff supported Bullying No Way Day, Harmony Week, Reconciliation Week, The Push Up Challenge, Pride Month,

NAIDOC Week, R U OK? Day and Wear It Purple Day.

Many library displays aim to foster creativity, wonder and a keen interest in the world beyond school. For example, The Future of Food display encouraged the boys to consider the looming issue of feeding the world’s population using alternative food sources and agricultural technology. This culminated with a ‘Chopstick Challenge’ where boys were tasked with picking up small items (including edible insects) using chopsticks and competing for the fastest finishing time. The Thinking of Studying Medicine? display, planned alongside the UCAT early Medicine entrance exam, sparked interest in a range of medical specialty fields and related study pathways, and was a great

collaboration with input from Old Boys currently practising in their specialty.

Recognising the significant role that reading plays in developing literacy, vocabulary and communications skills, Library

staff take every opportunity to foster a positive reading culture amongst the students. This is demonstrated in Library lessons, displays and newsletters, and on the Library website, digital screens and Instagram. Students have access to a rich and diverse collection of fiction and non-fiction reading materials in print, graphic novel, ebook and audiobook formats. Academic excellence is a core part of the Senior Library services. Working with teachers, Library staff support students to undertake their research strategically and critically. Library research guides are developed for each research task and provide a rich source of highquality information from websites and databases, along with advice about information and research

skills. Partnering with subject areas such as Science for Science Week activities, and English to complement units of study such as Goodnight Mr Tom and The Great Gatsby is another way to harness the interest of the boys.

The graduating Year 12s will be missed as the Senior Library has become a hub for them this year. The seniors spent much of their time in The Lilley Centre, including daily Tutor Groups and Consolidation Periods; weekly Extended Preparation; streamed Assemblies (during COVID-19 restrictions); afternoon study before the nightly Extended Day Study Program; and Assessment Preparation block prior to exams and during final external exams. Providing collaboration and study

spaces for the Year 12s have been crucial to catering not only to their academic pursuits but also to their wellbeing.

It has also been a pleasure to involve the School Captains, with both a canvas print of them holding books significant to them added to the Captains’ reading wall, along with a dedicated page on the Library website. They were also the inaugural contestants for the launch of the Great Book Quiz, in which Year 8 boys challenged the Captains to 20 questions about well-known books. To conclude the year, the resident mannequin also showed his support for the graduating Year 12 boys.

Centenary Library

In 2022, the Centenary Library occupied a somewhat cosier space at the top of the Centenary Building stairs. This did not deter its occupants from a year filled with reading, studying, exploring and fun with the Centenary Library spirit living on.

The year began with Year 7 orientation where we welcomed our new students to the space that would soon become a welcoming gathering place throughout their year. Under the watchful eye of our beloved Grumpy Cat we celebrated multiple themed weeks. These included Horror Week when we explored the scary genre through quizzes, film clips and scavenger hunts, Science Week which involved the Science staff hosting a variety of fun and hands-on workshops during the breaks, and Star Wars Week which saw passionate fans of the film franchise testing their knowledge and skills. No year would be complete without our most

popular event, the Middle School Libraries Book Week. This year on top of various exciting activities that occurred during break times, the

library hosted a Book Week Trivia Night on the Tuesday evening with acclaimed author Richard Yaxley. Parents and students battled it out for the chance to be crowned Trivia Master through a series of quiz rounds and a Kahoot. This was a wonderful community night filled with lots of laughs and tricky questions.

In Term 3, the Year 7 students campaigned passionately to promote a chosen fantasy novel for their Form Class, competing against every other class in the year. Students spoke at a Year Level Assembly, created videos, published

promotional posters and developed bookmarks to sit in the Centenary Library as inspiration for others, bringing some fun and excitement to our discussions around books and reading.

We have been lucky to be visited by multiple authors this year, hosting Nick Earls, Will Kostakis and Christine Bongers who worked with students in a variety of capacities to inspire reading and creative writing. We also gathered together to work on Father’s Day crafts, celebrate Australian sporting achievements in the Commonwealth Games, Tennis and the recent World Cups, discuss current books in our two Book Clubs and share our learning and expertise in the brand-new Genius Bar.

Looking back on the year that was we know that while we may have been smaller in size we certainly were not in spirit and enthusiasm and that is a credit to those who visited every day with a smile on their face and a spring in their step.

To our teachers, students and parents who are members of the Centenary Library community, thank you so much for your support and

excitement over the past months. This will be my final Centenary Library report as I call to a close my time here at Brisbane Grammar School. It has been a pleasure to be a part of your lives and to share

my passion for school libraries and literature.

I wish everyone all the best in 2023.

Middle School Library

Boys, research, books, laptops, reading, STEM…it has been an eventful year!

Book Week was a highlight as students and parents came together to celebrate the power of reading. Special guest, author Pat Flynn, spoke at the Book Week Breakfast and to each year level in the Middle School. The theme was Dreaming with Eyes Open, which gave us the opportunity to explore Indigenous ideas. Year 6 boys created Read Posters that celebrated the theme or the

importance of reading, while Year 5 students were challenged to design our official Book Week bookmark.

Star Wars Week and Horror Week were very popular and offered a range of pursuits from STEM activities to trivia competitions to droid races. Simple games such as skull toss and eyeball golf in Horror Week proved thoroughly enjoyable. The annual Book Fair was an opportunity for boys to purchase books and other items for themselves while also supporting the Library.

In addition, boys have been able to participate in workshops for stop motion animation, handson technology and the highly contested solar car challenge. In these sessions, boys were encouraged to take responsibility for their learning and solve their problems collaboratively. The final products are proof of the power of peer teaching and co-operation.

Underpinning all the fun are the very serious and strategic purposes of our Library program: encouraging boys to read for pleasure and assisting them with the development of their information literacy skills. Structured lessons were taught in

conjunction with Science, History and Geography teachers. Skills such as note-taking, using print and online sources productively, producing bibliographies and developing graphic design abilities have been incorporated throughout the year. As part of the English program, boys visited the Library each week to read and explore a variety of texts. There were focussed lessons designed to develop their reading skills. The Accelerated Reader program continued with boys reading and answering quizzes about the books. Many boys exceeded the expectation of 500 points which is very pleasing. Of particular note are Kingsley Schliebs and Ethan Clarkson who more than doubled this. Literature Circles continue to evolve and offer boys the chance to read and discuss their ideas in small groups. It is always rewarding to hear their insights about the books.

Year 5 students were welcomed to the Library at the start of the year with a collection of pamphlets, bookmarks and other goodies in a special BGS Library bag.

Book Club has run each week and brought together boys who love to read and discuss ideas

about books. While not every boy read each book, they certainly enjoyed the biscuits!

A small group of keen readers travelled to Somerset College to attend the annual Storyfest. A highlight was the session with author Matt Stanton who entertained the audience with hilarious anecdotes as well as writing advice.

Volunteer monitors continue to play an integral role in the running of the Library and their support is greatly appreciated. As always, a pizza party at the end of the year is a fantastic reward for all their hard work.

Special Assemblies

Activities

Astronomy Club | Athene Club | Student Reconciliation Action Group | Chess | Lego Robots | Solar Car Challenge

The Shed | Robotics | Duke of Edinburgh Award | Enterprise Groups | Future Problem Solving | Greening Grammar

International Physics Olympiad | ISCF | Public Purpose | Titration

Astronomy Club

The Astronomy Club has spent the year watching on in excitement as the expansion of the private space industry drives innovation and heats up the race to space.

Many of our fortnightly meetings have been filled with enthusiastic chatter, especially when NASA’s Orion Spacecraft successfully launched the Artemis-1 moonorbiting mission.

Unfortunately, our triumphant return to Moogerah for a stargazing excursion ended in disappointment as the skies were unkind to us

that night. Complete cloud cover blanketed the sky all night. With perseverance and patience, however, we managed to glance at a tremendously bright full moon, as well as get a glimpse of Jupiter’s Galilean moons.

Former student Luke Schwartz ’21 kindly offered his support and helped with the telescope setup, so we send a big thank you to him.

Throughout the year, night viewings enabled us to practise our telescope skills. Some students also tried out their own telescopes,

before putting them to use in the field.

During a lunar eclipse, Year 7 student Jacky Tan took aweinspiring photos of a lunar eclipse, which feature on this page. We thank him for sharing.

With a bit of luck and better weather, we remain hopeful of being able to expand our collection of fantastic astronomy photographs in 2023.

Student Reconciliation Action Group

From installing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to donating football boots, the School has made many accomplishments in its reconciliation journey in 2022.

At the start of the year, students formed the Student Reconciliation Action Group with the hope of creating a meaningful and positive plan to advance nationally recognised outcomes for reconciliation at the School and within the wider community.

Comprehending the scale of our accomplishments is difficult, considering it all began with an online meeting in the first week of the school year.

In Term One, students met with Headmaster Mr Anthony Micallef to pitch the idea of putting up Know Your Country posters in classrooms and staffrooms. The posters acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land – the Jagera

and Turrbal peoples of Meanjin, and the Ugarapul peoples of Moogerah – on which BGS students and staff learn and work every day. Support for this project has been overwhelming.

National Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week also proved to be a success. In keeping with this year’s theme of Be Brave, Make Change, the group put forward the idea of fundraising for three flags, the Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Australian, to be erected at the BGS Northgate Playing Fields. The BGS community rallied behind the cause, bringing in a ‘Fiver for the Flags’ and supporting Picnic on the Hill at the GPS Indigenous Round, at Northgate. The flags will be installed over Christmas, and we look forward to the unveiling in 2023.

To celebrate NAIDOC Week, Year 11 and 12 students who participated

in the Indigenous Immersion at Cape York gave insightful school presentations on their life-changing visit to Wujal Wujal, Buru and Maaramaka communities, where they were brushed with local bottlebrush plants in a special Welcome to Country by Elders and Traditional Owners. Students presented Mr Carroll with a didgeridoo from the immersion.

Old Boy Dylan Minniecon ’16 wowed the audience with his performance using the incredible wind instrument, and he shared his

knowledge at Middle School and Senior School assemblies.

Other projects we are proud to be a part of include the inclusion of the Acknowledgements of Country at all formal assemblies and donating football boots to the AFL House in Cairns. Celebrating NAIDOC Week to honour the history, culture and achievements of First Nations peoples, highlighted some of the challenges faced by our Indigenous communities.

The group attended the Smoking Ceremony for the construction of the STEAM Precinct, organised by WATPAC. Here, students met Indigenous Elder Aunty Kathy, who shared her thoughts on contemporary issues impacting First Nations Australians and shared her knowledge of the spiritual connections to country. The boys will be sure to remember this invaluable experience and opportunity.

We are incredibly proud of the group, and we look forward to facilitating more reconciliation action in 2023.

Chess Club

In 2022, the Chess Club continued to be a place of social connection and healthy competition for students in Years 5 and 6. Throughout the year, the club

hosted light-hearted games and formal tournaments for both novice players and those with more experience. The love of the game helped friendships and camaraderie blossom as students fine-tuned their chess knowledge and skills.

The Queensland Interschool Chess competition provided boys

with their first opportunity to take on the challenge of a formal tournament. Our premier team, made up of Dimitri Zou, Lucas Han, Marcus Swan and Edward Thai, achieved first place in all three rounds of competition. They qualified for the State Finals, where they represented the School well,

finishing ninth overall.

Across the rounds, there were many other strong and creditable performances. In Round 1, Max Wang, Ferrell Dong, Lachlan Hilford and Anderson Han achieved third place in Division A; Bryan Sun, Devam Shah, Ian Ha and Ethan Bester achieved first place in Division B.

In Round 2, Danny Zhong, Connor Kua, Alexander Ha and Max Wang achieved second place in Division A; Spencer Zellmer, Aaron Cheng, Soren Fripp and Edward Gu achieved first place in Division B.

In Round 3, Danny Zhong, Connor Kua, Alexander Ha and Max Wang achieved third place in the Premier Division; Lachlan Hilford, Edward Gu, Anderson Han and Ferrell Dong achieved first place in Division A, followed by Malakai Wong, Angus Nieh, Aaron Cheng in second place.

A number of more experienced players also gained selection in GPS chess teams, where they represented the School.

Competitions help the boys grow in confidence, and build resilience and team spirit.

I extend my sincere thanks to our coaches, Mr Patrick Byrom and Mr Charles Guo, for their continued efforts with the boys. I would like to thank everyone in the BGS chess community for their continued support in what has been another successful year.

Athene Club

When I was asked to join the Athene Club in Year 11, I didn’t know what to expect. Would it be interesting? Would people be willing to contribute? Would my ideas be accepted?

Little did I know how thoughtprovoking, encouraging and farreaching my experience at the club would be.

Joining both BGS and BGGS in an intellectual discussion forum about anything and everything social, political and cultural, every meeting presents an opportunity for a different student to present a paper on an issue for the consideration of the group.

With another year of facing the almighty challenge of fitting in meetings amid the hectic Year 12 exam schedule, the Athene Club showed no signs of slowing. We heard about papers on affirmative action, morality, religious discrimination, and even a paper questioning the validity of the club’s existence. Acknowledgement must go to our counterparts across Kalinga Avenue, who delivered interesting papers on topics such as gender, abortion and genetic modification. Much of the club’s value is derived from our shared experience with BGGS, exposing us to perspectives we may never have heard before, and building connections that are unlikely to disappear anytime soon.

As we walked out of our final meeting, we had grown as thinkers, as speakers and as people. Our worldviews have now expanded, and our friendships too, for which I am incredibly thankful.

The only thing I didn’t enjoy about the Athene Club was being the one who had to call the meeting to a close.

It was an honour to participate, not forgetting the work put in by Mr Howes and Miss Parry from BGGS for giving us such an invaluable opportunity.

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Lego Robots

A group of dedicated Year 5 and 6 boys competed in the Lego Sumo Challenge in 2022. Competitors are tasked with creating a robot, only using Lego pieces, which they then battle against other robots in a sumo-style arena. Their coach Mr Jamie Foulger mentored the boys in a range of coding and construction techniques in efforts to develop robust robots.

The season culminated in a friendly interschool competition day at St Laurence’s College, in November. The boys had fun and achieved success in their matches. Students who got involved in Lego Sumo developed skills which can be transferred to First Lego League or First Tech Challenge.

Solar Car Challenge

The track in the Social Space was at fever pitch in Term 4, with young engineers racing their solar cars after weeks of construction and trialling in the Middle School Library.

Six groups of Years 5 and 6 boys lined up to see who had made the fastest car. Under the guidance of race starter Mr Canfield, the boys raced in a number of heats to determine the final three for the championship race. A few cars needed a quick trip to Pit Lane, but all managed to have some time on the track. Congratulations to Luka Rodins and Elliot Morris who took out first place, just beating Lachlan Tan and Malakai Wong across the finish line. Third place went to Max Gatehouse and Ben Davis. Congratulations to all who persisted in this very exciting STEAM challenge.

The Shed

In 2022, The Shed offered several unique opportunities for Middle School students to get involved in new hands-on building projects. The Shed is open to any student in Years 5 to 8, and we had many regular attendees.

At the start of the year, we made decorative and colourful wind spinners out of paddle pop sticks. The project involved using drills and other hand and power tools. The students loved the experience of using different machines and getting a taste of real-world skills.

In Semester 2, we introduced a brand-new project called Cathedral, which saw boys build a two-player wooden boardgame from scratch. Using scroll saws, electric sanders, files and other hand tools, students jumped on the opportunity to

create a fun game they can play at school or home. Once completed, students can go head-to-head in a strategy battle against their friends and family.

When the end of the year wrapped up, we had run out of time to finish off building the boardgame, which means we will be back on the

tools to colour in the pieces in early 2023.

The Shed will be back in 2023, so if this is something you may be interested in, please register early next year.

Robotics

Years 5 and 6

In 2021, we set the challenge of taking a team to the FIRST Lego League (FLL) Challenge, an interschool competition where teams compete at regional, state, national and international competitions.

This year, the focus was on the application of energy sources in the future.

Our regional event was held in November at the Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology (QASMT). After a day of learning, and trials and tribulations, we were presented with the Engineering Excellence Award.

The nifty, bright yellow trophy made out of Lego pieces was a treasured memento. We rejoiced in the fact we had accomplished our goal for the year.

We say goodbye to our Year 6 students as they now transition to the FTC division in 2023 but look forward to a new cohort of Year 5 students at the start of the year.

Years 7 to 12

Five BGS Robotics teams competed in the first Robotics Challenge National Finals. Due to impacts of COVID-19, this event had been rescheduled from 2021. Of the more than 200 FTC teams in the country, 45 competed in the remote event.

Our five teams developed robots using research of engineering principles, experience, and trial and error. Eventually, we ended up with five very different robots, each trying to complete the complex challenges of the Freight Frenzy game.

In Freight Frenzy, robots navigate a complex transportation system by traversing barriers and racing against time to load and deliver essential items to those who need them most.

To complicate matters, our remote matches and interviews were conducted on the weekend of severe weather. Many of our team members were not able to attend Bread House and had to connect to the Zoom interviews from home. This meant that interviews were not as ‘connected’ as teams in other parts of the country who were able to meet in person. Fortunately, the BGS boys managed to remain

composed and represented our school admirably.

Our top result was team BGS 19451 who placed third in the Connect Award. The Connect Award is judged during a Microsoft Teams interview with their engineering portfolio, and is given to teams who show that they most connect with their local Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) community.

The experience also provides clear examples of developing in-person or virtual connections with individuals in the engineering, science, or technology community.

Other competition ranking results, based on overall points scored in six matches were some great results, which everyone was proud of.

• #14579 Top Shelf ranked 23

• #19050 Form Over Function ranked 38

• #19450 Team Splitbot ranked 21

• #19451 BGS 19451 ranked 18 –Connect Award 3rd place

• #16337 King G ranked 35

• #19050 Form Over Function ranked 38

In Term 3, one representative from each of the five BGS teams attended the Coach and Players

Day at Grace College. Dozens of team representatives from South East Queensland attended a season launch event to discuss strategy, network and begin robot building.

In order to improve the coding depth in our teams, two of our team members attended the inaugural FTC Coding Academy. Only a small number of Queensland teams were invited to attend this high level academy.

This new opportunity helped propel our team members to comprehend machine learning, robot design and vision systems. Guan-Au Ma and James Lollback

were excellent ambassadors for our School. They now act as coding mentors for our other teams.

The 2022 season competition was called Power Play and was inspired by modern energy use. BGS teams have continued developing skills in programming, 3D modelling, laser cutter, 3D printer and silicon moulding to enhance our robot builds. November saw the Queensland State Finals, the first in-person event in several years due to COVID-19 restrictions.

At the FTC Queensland Friendly competition, team BGS 19451 managed to win a place in the finals

while Team Splitbot was eliminated. In the finals, BGS 19451 were defeated but came home with the runner-up alliance captain trophy.

The Senior School Robotics boys had an outstanding FTC State Competition in November. It was the biggest ever Queensland State competition with almost 40 teams attending the first in-person event of its type in several years. Our teams worked since January preparing for this event, using the off season to hone their coding, engineering and design skills. The Engineering Notebook is a 14-page document that records the team’s design process.

Remarkably, four out of five BGS teams qualified to attend the National Finals at Pymble Ladies

College in Sydney in December. That means that a quarter of Queensland’s teams were from BGS. This is by far our best result at the state level and is a testament to the focus and dedication of our teams throughout the year.

Our teams were awarded:

• Team #19450 - The Design Award

• Team #16337 - The Think Award

• Team #14579 - The Innovate Award Sponsored by Raytheon Technologies

• Team #19451 placed second in the most prestigious award, The Inspire Award

Nine team members have been selected for our large-scale robotics competition, FRC. This event begins early in January 2023, yet our team have already begun researching and preparing for the new season. The team members are Guan-Ao Ma, Arnav Thapar, Hudson Ridoutt, Eugene Erng, Eamman Conomos, Luke Jacobson, Harsha Cikaluru, Hames Lollback and Henry Kerrigan.

We are the only Queensland team competing in this popular international competition. Our team comprises experienced robotics students from BGGS, Grace College, St Peters Lutheran College and will be led by the BGS boys this season.

Thanks to our coaches, Mrs Palmer, Mr Foulger, Mrs Miner, Mrs Child, Mr Mitchell and our university mentors, Lachlan and Matthew, for their time and expertise preparing our boys for competitions in 2022.

We also appreciate the many parents who have helped support teams through technical support and vounteering at state and national events. Our teams have further extended their network by collaborating online with teams from around the world and forging links with potential sponsors.

We look forward to more learning opportunities in 2023.

Duke of Edinburgh Award

The Duke of Edinburgh (DoE) Award is an internationally recognised award that encourages participants to explore their individual interests. It has been a longstanding part of the Cocurricular and Outdoor programs at BGS, having supported hundreds of students to achieve their Bronze, Silver and Gold awards.

For many students, the thrill of

adventure and unpredictable fun of the outdoors sparks their passion for DoE pursuits. During two trips this year, groups of around 20 boys showed grit and determindation as they hit the water to travel in a sea kayak for four days. Carefully mapping out their journey, students who completed their Gold and Silver awards did their peers proud as they took charge of navigation

and planning.

The pinnacle of the program is the Gold award. Five students — Thomas Kwan, Uzair Saood, Hishaam Saood, Alexander Graves and Thomas Jackson — reached this achievement in 2022, proving persistence and resilience goes a long way. Their names will be added to the Gold Award Honour Board, following the names of boys dating

back to the 1970s.

We had eight students receive Bronze and three receive Silver in recognition of their efforts in completing four categories of the awards: Physical Recreation, Learning a Skill, Voluntary Service and Adventurous Journey.

A group of Year 7 and Year 8 students were involved in the Bridge Award, with four achieving

the first of two levels. As part of this award, students hiked uphill trails through dense bushland at Mount Cordeaux and Springbrook National Park.

We are grateful for our Outdoor Education staff who put in a tremendous amount of time to make the expeditions and awards possible.

We would like to thank those in

the BGS community who make the effort to be the assessors for our awardees, particularly the teachers, and tuckshop and library staff.

I look forward to seeing the program continue to grow in popularity as more boys broaden their interests in 2023.

Enterprise Groups

The Enterprise Program provides students with opportunities to extend their learning in Economics to real life. In 2022, we delighted in being able to offer an exciting calendar of events following two years of COVID-19 disruptions.

Our Brew ’22 coffee crew members impressed with their outstanding level of leadership and teamwork, resulting in recordbreaking sales shift after shift. We enjoyed working with BGGS on the Student Entrepreneur and Ecoman programs.

A personal highlight was watching the Student Entrepreneur Group work with Olympic athletes –it was truly an amazing experience.

We had a record number of students sign up for the Australian Business Week competition, and interest in our programs continues to grow year-on-year, which is incredible to see.

Nothing is more exciting than being tasked with the challenge of creating a business idea to solve a modern world issue, while working in a fast-paced environment.

The Student Entrepreneur Weekend is a thrilling challenge held over two days with BGGS. Having participated in the competition for two years, I realise the part I truly love most is the new people I meet. I enjoy coming together with people I don’t know all that well, and then in a very short and intense period, working together to find answers to a real-world issue.

Led by the Aussie Founders Network, the event is supported by entrepreneurs and industry experts who mentor us and provide rare insight and exposure to innovative industries from around Australia.

This year, we worked with professional beach volleyball player and five-time Olympic medallist Natalie Cook OAM OLY. She helped us tackle the issue of unlocking sustainable and viable pathways for both elite and aspiring Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

My team developed a company called Ath-Elite, which focused on providing a place where Olympic athletes could provide their knowledge to aspiring young athletes, while making money in the process. I developed a problemsolving mindset, which is one of the main things I took away from the experience.

We learnt to have an open-mind and to bring smaller ideas together to form one strong final design idea. I believe this way of thinking is useful in the real world and is a unique experience you cannot find anywhere else.

Over an intense two days in July, a group of BGS boys joined BGGS girls in the Ecoman program at Eagle Street.

In teams of five, we were challenged to take over the management of a simulated coffee machine manufacturing company. We learnt about making simple and complex business management decisions throughout the different stages of the business cycle. The goal was to achieve the highest share price at the end of a four-year period.

Each team made decisions on how best to increase the company share value to provide a long-term future for the business. These decisions included using concepts, such as strategic planning, financial

accounting, cost management, sales and marketing, and human resource management.

The highly-competitive program meant fierce but fun rivalries developed between the groups. As each team delivered a report to a group of shareholders, it became obvious that every team boasted great teamwork and camaraderie.

Our reports were delivered with plenty of prowess, making for some entertaining performances and providing a jovial end to an intense two days. In our first taste of what it is like to run a business in a busy commercial environment, all teams did exceptionally well. We came away with a great deal of knowledge and real-world experience.

In Term 3, economics students from BGS and BGGS competed against each other in the Australian Business Week competition. In teams of four, students were tasked with maximising the share price of a hotel business.

Students had to make many decisions relating to the operation of hotels, such as purchasing new hotels, modifying room prices and employing more staff. At the end of every quarter, a case study was presented to the teams, in which they had to respond to try and maximise profits. At the end of eight quarters, half of the teams made a profit, while all students learnt valuable skills and gained useful insight into what it takes to be competitive in this industry. Congratulations to the winning BGGS Team 5, and well done to the other teams.

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Australian Business Week

Twenty Year 11 Economic students had the opportunity to be a part

Student Entrepreneur Group

of the 2022 Coffee Cocurricular, during Semester 1. If you had not heard of us or visited us in the New Quadrangle, we were a coffee shop open before school, between 7.30am – 8.15am on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

This provided us with the opportunity to gain real-world experience running a business and dealing with the challenges that come with it. With the guidance of Ms Twyman, Ms Marshall and Ms Stevenson, the boys were given the freedom but also the responsibility of being able to run a business, which required initiative, commitment, and time and effort outside of school.

Despite many adversities, such as illness that caused us to be short-staffed and heavy rain in the mornings, we persevered and found a solution as a team. Overall, the boys enjoyed the activity and

are proud of their barista and milkshake-making skills.

Year 11

Coffee (Semester 1)

There is nothing better than sipping a warm cup of fresh coffee. In a world of unlimited wants and limited resources, a morning beverage is an essential part of everyday life.

During Semester 2, a team of 20 BGS boys operated a coffee stall on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Better known as the Brew ’22 crew, our student-run coffee stall, served both students and staff.

We attended a professional barista course, which taught us the craft of brewing coffee and milkshakes. We learnt skills and techniques needed to guarantee we delivered high-quality beverages for our customers.

Having a team motive of

maximising profit, we were driven to succeed and deliver. Constantly innovating and changing the processes of setting up, operating, and packing up became streamlined and efficient as weeks passed by.

Subsequently, the stall became increasingly more popular, especially with the Middle School boys.

Occasionally, Brew ‘22 would host weekly meet and greets with BGGS, which most definitely tested us. However, despite the challenges we came together as a group and always rose to the occasion.

Overall, the business simulation was an incredible experience for all involved. I personally enjoyed the opportunity to meet and work with people who I may have not worked with previously.

Year 11

Coffee (Semester 2)

Enterprise Group – Coffee (Semester 1)

Back Row (L to R): Ryan Khan, Lachlan Curtin, Alex Roe, Aden Whyte, Will Siddle.

Middle Row (L to R): Harrison Fitzgerald, Rex Bennett, Giancarlo Sciacca, Nick Hirschfeld, Ashley Batchelor.

Front Row (L to R): Zubair Islam, Matthew Wong, Ben Bryant, Benjamin Watson.

Absent: Binupa Ilangamage, John Morrissey, Angus Norris, Connor Haley, Austen Harry, Alex Crethar.

Enterprise Group – Coffee (Semester 2)

Back Row (L to R): Rahul Kumar, Tim Waller, Jonathan Minchinton, Justin Lowe, Sebastien Roy-Bryant, Jasper Lindgren, Jack Whittam.

Middle Row (L to R): Edward Gracey, Will Kaandorp, Brad Mackintosh, Will Gatehouse, Andrew Beckingsale, John Kim.

Front Row (L to R): Jaden Teow, Sathya Gururajan, Mathew Wong, Sze Yong Ng, Will O’Sullivan, James Edmunds.

Absent: Doug Chapman, Mac Williams.

Ecoman

Back Row (L to R): Will O’Sullivan, Aidan Murphy, Rahul Kumar, Ryan Khan, Dion Coroneo, Isaac Bassingthwaighte, Corbin Jenvey.

Middle Row (L to R): Axel Hinds, Lauren Hirst, Rose Baumgart, Esther McDade, Aria Retimana, Sarah Beckingsale, Sze Yong Ng, Brad Mackintosh.

Front Row (L to R): Ben Bryant, Jacqueline Hii, Milena Saina, Isabella Labagnara, Jessica Dinh, Jessica Wacker, Madeleine Shaw.

Absent: John Morrissey, James Randall, Eden Douglas.

Australian Business Week

Back Row (L to R): Jaden Teow, Ben Bryant, Ollie Luke, Alex Brown, Henny Estensen, Justin Lowe, Sebastien Roy-Bryant, Ryan Khan, Andrew Beckingsale, Isaac Bassingthwaighte, Tom Brittain, Will Gatehouse, Dion Coroneo.

Third Row (L to R): Lucy Williamson, Angeline Hsu, Axel Hinds, Lachie Reck, Brad Mackintosh, Jack Whittam, David Butler, Sze Yong Ng, Will O’Sullivan, Tom Richards, Isaac Taylor, Mustahsin Zarjis.

Second Row (L to R): Serena Pang, Mia Sutton, Brooke Tolhurst, Alyse Stewart, Avalon Blundell, Evangelina Stutz, Freya Smith, Cara Battaglia, Scarlett Walters, Grace Scammells, Zaya Lee, Taylor Antel, My (Cara) Dang.

Front Row (L to R): Tung-Hi Ma, Lilly Horsburgh, Madeleine Shaw, May Wu, Sophie Coleman, Sarah Beckingsale, Olivia Ann Mitchell, Kaitlyn Le, Lauren Hirst, Rainbow Yu, Josephine Fenech, Gabriella Stephens.

Absent: John Morrissey, James Randall, Ethan Harcourt, Perry Irwin, Taj Lyndon, Hanu Jadon, Nathan Chen, Riley Walsh, Will Hill, Eliza French.

Future Problem Solving

Future Problem Solving is an international academic competition that challenges students to solve a range of potential problems humanity may face 20 or more years in the future. We had our biggest cohort ever, with nine teams competing this year.

For the fourth year, teams from BGGS worked with our teams to collaboratively address the challenging issues of the competition. One FPS teams qualified for the National Finals. Congratulations to Middle School boys, Jake Parker, Dinura Gallage, Thomas Scott and Eric Su.

Two other boys, Nicholas Blanch and Adam Chua, were also selected to support the team at Carey Grammar in Melbourne and to compete in their own separate competition.

Only three teams from Queensland qualified in this division, so our team represented our school and state.

We thank our team members and coach from BGGS for training and preparing with us for this competition during the year. The National Finals topic was Mining in the Future. Nicholas Blanch placed third in his booklet competition, an outstanding effort for his first year competing in Future Problem Solving.

Thanks to BGS coach Mrs Liisa Miner and BGGS coaches for their support this year.

Greening Grammar

As more and more young people around the world strive for an environmentally friendly future and take climate change seriously, Greening Grammar has never been so popular. In 2022, we had a record number of students sign up to help improve the School’s sustainability program.

Three boarders – Thierry Kwok, Xavier Leung and Isaac Chan –collected food waste from the Dining Hall to feed our five worm farms. Due to this year’s cooler weather, we collected less worm tea than usual. Avid gardeners in the BGS community, however, were still appreciative of the fertilizer tea.

We continued recycling a recordbreaking number of batteries, and also encouraged the BGS community to responsibly dispose of batteries at the designated dropoff points around the School or outside most large supermarkets. Greening Grammar students also

participated in the annual Clean Up Australia event, in Victoria Park.

Our biggest sustainable achievement was most certainly running a Containers for Change program. Boys from Years 7 to 12 volunteered to sort through the School’s yellow recycling bins after class. A few squeals and laughs could be heard when students found that mice had taken up residence in some of the containers they were sorting through. Our container recycling efforts will continue in 2023.

Year 12 students have been a phenomenal help, providing excellent guidance to younger students. We particularly praise Adi Pradeep Rao, David Wang, DJ Li and Harry Dickson for juggling their commitment to a greener future with their academic pursuits.

ISCF

The Senior School Inter-School Christian Fellowship (ISCF) provides students in Years 9 to 12 with an opportunity to consider some of the deeper questions of life.

At the beginning of each term, students plan activities for the group and regularly catch up at morning tea for year level meetings. Discussions are usually wide-ranging but always include a Christian perspective on issues our students face. This year posed a number of challenges with COVID-19 restrictions in Term 1, which changed our meeting formats. We explored gathering together online, so students could continue to support each other.

The annual ISCF camp was held at Camp Somerset. Sixty-five students enjoyed the fun activities and beautiful site, as well as the thought-provoking exploration of Christian beliefs using the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusades as a theme. The presence of a number of Old Boy leaders added greatly to the camp.

Within the Senior ISCF group,

there is a strong culture of leadership by example and putting others’ needs before our own. This is evident in many senior students who assisted regularly at the Middle School ISCF group. This year saw the farewelling of a group of Year 12 students who have contributed to the ISCF group in various ways. Their enthusiastic participation will be sorely missed. Unity across year levels and the leadership offered by older students are distinctive features of the ISCF group.

During Friday lunchtimes, around 30 Middle School students would gather for fun activities, such as themed games, quizzes and even a talent show. Students helped to

decide on which activities they would like to run for each term. Year 7 and 8 students also met regularly. Middle School ISCF provides boys with the opportunity to have fun and interact with peers in a relaxed environment. As an

interdenominational Christian group, ISCF is open to all students who wish to learn more about the spiritual dimension of life. Lunchtime activities lead into short discussions on thought-provoking topics.

Around 90 students attended one of three Middle School ISCF camps held during the September holidays. Years 5 and 6 students participated in a day camp held on campus with an excursion to Laser Force. Years 7 and 8 students spent three days in the beautiful surrounds at Moogerah. One highlight was tubing across the sprawling water of Lake Moogerah. Senior students and Old Boys assisted staff to run the camps.

Chang Hong Wu Xue Hui

Chang Hong Wu Shu, developed from Chang Quan (lit. “Long Fist”) and Hong Quan (lit. “Flood Fist”) styles, was founded 40 years ago in Taiwan by Great Grand Master Chen Ching Ho. In their pursuit of improvement, students from all year levels have begun to understand the relationships between principles of intent, efficient movement and increasing personal capability.

Training starts on Wednesday mornings at 6.30am in CB202, where we are met with a barrage of Chinese language phrases. Once the room is set up, the first part of the lesson usually follows a predictable habit-forming sequence of flexibility training, coupled with Qi Gong and posture/movement correcting principles, introduced by way of basic exercises, stances, kicks and conditioning training.

Progress for us is brought about through a constant process of comparing and contrasting power, speed and space by evaluating the logic of various actions performed in different ways. Students learn to question the efficacy of previously held convictions and, in doing so, take the first step to improvement. While students may struggle with these exercises at first, after a while they begin to understand their poor or inefficient habits. Without an understanding of the present state, progress cannot be made.

Following this, the second step – adopting more effective habits – can begin. More experienced students should start to be more comfortable with these stances/exercises/ kicks as they progress through

this process. Of course, these stages don’t just happen once, but rather, occur in a cycle.

The second part of the lessons tend to vary. No matter what is trained, whether it be forms, Qin Na (Grip Locks), or Weapons, the same three core principles are always at the heart of the activities: Engaging Core (Dan Tian), minimising movement errors (Midline Theory), and increasing power and speed generation (separating and sequencing joints). As a goal, the Chang Hong training process aims to ensure that all students develop physical ability, confidence and better decisionmaking skills through training, while also exploring conflict resolution strategies and safety.

Another major benefit is the Chinese language skills development. Much of the class is taught in Chinese, which provides us with the opportunity to broaden vocabulary and conversational practice in a less formal setting. Throughout the lessons, students will pick up on useful common vocabulary pieces while also learning how to understand and deal with unfamiliar words. For those who do not yet study Chinese, an English explanation is also provided in class.

The study of Wu Shu produces innumerable benefits for any individual willing to adopt an open-minded approach, attends lessons frequently and shows a willingness to incorporate concepts into their daily life.

Public Purpose

The Public Purpose program at BGS allows students to be involved in a diverse range of actionbased, adventure-based and entrepreneurial-based projects, that challenge them to consider their role as global citizens, now and into the future.

This year students in Years 5 to 12 have been involved in a range of vertical project groups, including the Days of Significance Group, the Guide Dogs Youth Ambassador Group, the RSPCA Project, the World’s Greatest Shave, the Push Up

Challenge, MS Readathon, Patients in Need Project, the Homework Club, and our annual Christmas Hamper Appeal.

The Homework Club, in partnership with Communify, continued to offer tutoring throughout the year to students from Kelvin Grove State College, most of whom are from families in which English is an additional language or dialect. The number of Kelvin Grove students attending the Homework Club continues to grow and it was great to see so many of

our Senior BGS boys involved in 2022.

The Guide Dogs Youth Ambassador Project Group worked hard to raise over $13,000 to support Guide Dogs Queensland. It takes $50,000 to train a guide dog and the boys should be proud of their fundraising efforts. The group had the pleasure of naming one of this year’s puppy trainees, Hope. We look forward to continuing to support Hope next year through her training to become a guide dog.

The RSPCA Project Group collected pet food, toys and blankets and raised funds through initiatives to support creatures great and small.

Our World’s Greatest Shave ambassadors made a significant contribution to support families impacted by blood cancer and raise funds for leukaemia research. This group raised over $22,000. We once again rolled up our sleeves to support the Push Up Challenge this year, as more than 700 BGS students completed over 551,168 push ups, to raise $11,000 to support mental health awareness. This group also broke their previous record, achieved last year, as the largest community group Australia wide in the Push Up Challenge.

The Patients in Need Project supported the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital through their

collection of essential items to donate to patients who arrive at hospital with only the clothes on their backs.

Our Middle School boys again led the MS Readathon, reading to raise funds to support families living with Multiple Sclerosis. The Days of Significance group worked tirelessly across the year to celebrate and educate our school community about important days, including the National Day Against Bullying and Violence, Bullying No Way! Day, Wear it Purple Day and Inclusivity Week, Men’s Health Week, Child Protection Week, RU OK? Day, Mental Health Week, White Ribbon Day and International Men’s Day.

The Public Purpose Program concluded the year again by bringing the BGS community together for our annual Christmas Hamper Appeal in partnership with St Vincent de Paul’s. As a school community, we were able to donate more than 68 Christmas Hampers to families in need, breaking another school record!

It has been a fantastic year in Public Purpose, and we look forward to seeing the students expand their projects and impact across the school and local community in 2023.

Eoin Mullan, Damon Cayas and Tom Jackson

Public Purpose Prefects

Public Speaking

It would be an unusual week for the media not to report on the words used by a public figure, deeming them controversial or inappropriate. Public speaking requires courage and a willingness to expose ourselves by revealing how we think and what we believe.

The annual public speaking competition encourages boys to explore significant issues and bravely share their perspective in front of a receptive audience.

When given free choice, it is interesting to discover where students go with their topic and see how they decide to deliver.

From Year 5 speeches that entertained and informed to Year 12 speeches that revealed personal stories and challenged assumptions, it became obvious the students embraced the opportunity to have their voices heard in a way that reflected who they are.

Many speeches conveyed concern for connections with each other and our own wellbeing –perhaps reflective of the times we live in. These speeches were genuine and were delivered in an authentic voice. Witnessing such thoughtful engagement with complex social issues and

mature insight into our shared vulnerabilities was impressive.

We were pleased to welcome back Old Boy Ronald Wyllie ’50 to the Year 12 competition. As a longstanding supporter of public speaking, he offered words of encouragement to the students. We value his presence and continue to be grateful for his sponsorship of the Year 12 prize.

Titration

Titration involves much more than just mixing things together — it is an artform involving skill, precision and a steady hand. Titration, by definition, is a quantitative analysis process used to determine an unknown concentration of an acid or base.

This year, BGS entered five teams of its best titrators into the Australian National Chemical Analysis Competition. Combining science and maths skills, the Year 11 and 12 students were tasked with determining the unknown concentration of a weak acid in a solution using an acid-base titration.

Learning to keep cool while under pressure in the lab thanks to weekly training sessions throughout Term 1 and Term 2, competitors were given just two hours to perform

their experiment and record their results. The accuracy of a titration result is measured by a quarter of a volume of a single drop of solution or smaller.

The BGS boys performed exceptionally well. A special mention goes to Year 11 student Ryan Bansal who received a High Distinction and Year 11 student Regan Chou for receiving a Distinction. Axel Hinds, Angus Lo, Marton Temesvari, Tyler Pearn, Ollie Taylor, Anhadh Virk, DJ Li, Ryan Khan, Sathya Gururajan, Sze Yong Ng, Jovan Yen and David Sun all received competent or participation awards.

I strongly recommend anyone interested in titration to sign up as it is a great way to make new friends while learning more about the art of chemistry.

International Physics and Chemistry Olympiad

The annual National Physics Olympiad Qualifying Exam is open to all students in Year 10 and 11. It is the first step in the selection of the Australian Team, which will compete at the International Physics Olympiad. BGS has had a long history in this event.

In August, 18 students in Year 10 and Year 11 joined about 2000 peers from around Australia for a two-hour online exam, which included multiple choice questions and extended problems, focusing on kinematics, dynamics, energy, electricity, waves, optics and experimental setup.

Certificates are awarded based on a student’s rank in the competition. The top 10 per cent receives a High Distinction certificate, the next 20 per cent receives a Distinction and the next 30 per cent receives a Credit certificate. The depth of ability within the BGS group is evident, with two High Distinctions, four Distinctions and six Credits.

Year 11 student Jaden Teow has been offered a place in the Australian Physics Olympiad Summer School, in January 2023. This places him in the top 30 students in the country, and it is the next step in the selection process for the 2023 Australian representative team. Jaden will take part in the intense program, which covers the equivalent of first-year university studies in Physics, in what is a great head start to higher education and careers in science. This is a

fantastic achievement, and we wish him all the best.

Our incredible results reflect a real passion for Physics at BGS as our students continue to excel at extremely high-level science competitions.

I strongly urge all eligible students to take part in this challenging but rewarding opportunity next year.

BGS also had 10 enthusiastic Year 11 chemistry students compete in the National Chemistry Olympiad Qualifying Exam, with the hopes of selection on the Australian Team.

The qualifying exam involved a grueling two-hour online test, which included questions covering physical, analytical and organic chemistry, akin to the QCAA Senior Chemistry Syllabus.

BGS finished with four Distinctions conferred – the students should be very proud.

This was only the second year that BGS chemistry students had competed at a national level. With ongoing training strategies and development, we are committed to having a strong presence at the competition for many years to come.

The Chemistry Department is encouraging eligible Year 11 students to sign up for the challenge in 2023.

Music

2022 has been an absolute delight with the return of musical concerts and collaborations that we so greatly missed during the peak of the pandemic. Audiences have enthusiastically embraced every opportunity to gather and indulge in music created by our talented young musicians. It is safe to say our audience numbers have never

been higher, which has challenged and inspired the boys to reach new heights.

In a year boasting many thoughtprovoking themed concerts, Grammar Community in Concert: Cinematic would certainly be the high point. The theme proved popular, with our best ensembles embracing every opportunity to showcase their incredible talents, while performing classic hits from the big screen. The live-to-screen presentations from the Percussion Ensemble and the Grammarphones (world premiere) were a major hit, as were the popular movie themes, such as Lord of the Rings from the Orchestra and Schindler’s List from Chamber Strings. None of us can forget when our very youngest performers in the Vocal Group joined the older students to play tunes from Toy Story. Returning to the Conservatorium of Music

Theatre was wonderful.

In Semester 2, all ensembles performed at the unique Renaissance Faire with related music, costumes and a display of medieval fencing, Around the World in 80 minutes featuring music from different countries, Latin Fiesta featuring our Jazz Band and Percussion Ensembles, as well as the ever-popular Sing and Swing held at the undercover cricket nets, which is known in the Music Department as the “sound shed”.

The extremely popular finale Lessons and Carols was reflective of the Christmas theme of Love at Christmas, in which the repertoire challenged the audience to put others first during this time of year. Our incredibly talented senior brass students performed with singers in Gloria by John Rutter and a concert setting of Hark the Herald – what a way to finish the year.

Our musicians loved collaborating with other likeminded students. The ‘usual’ coming together of BGS and BGGS as the ‘Grammar Singers’ resulted in the schools always having a presence at each other’s significant cultural events. The various string festivals brought together string players from around the region, as they explored new repertoire, which is always a valuable activity.

The boys in the Chamber Choir were thrilled to be one of only three school choirs invited to sing at the Queensland Youth Orchestra’s performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony, at QPAC. This is a monumental amount of time and dedication, and the boys worked hard and attended several extra rehearsals. It culminated in an electrifying final performance. Members of the

extended BGS community formed the Grammar Community Choir, which performed to great acclaim at Grammar in Concert.

The farewells at the end of the year are very poignant. With mixed emotions, we acknowledged our talented senior cohort of musicians, who missed so much due to the pandemic but still led with enthusiasm and gratitude. We also recognise the incredible contribution of Principal Brass Teacher Jim Noble, who is retiring after 37 years of service. He has been an instrumental influence on so many students and has overseen remarkable changes during his time here. Thanks Jim.

Grammar Philharmonic Orchestra

Back Row (L to R): Eamman Conomos, Samuel Hains, Martin Wallis, Lucas Bell, Hayden Scholes, Nhan Nguyen, Arthur Hames, Theodore Andreatidis, Aowen Ding. Fourth Row (L to R): Cavel Leong, Lachlan Aleksiuk, Sam Margetts, Harsha Cikaluru, Jeric Gao, Will Yuen, Samuel Chan, Ruiqi Mao, Jenson Harding, Leroy Zhou, Lewis Harvey, Shaun Li.

Third Row (L to R): Isaac Doan, Christian Ho, Ethan Hussey, Dehan Wickramasekera, Joseph Arthur, Bowen Zhang, Seth McBride, Afthab Shanavas, Tomos Johnston, Ethan Chen, Maxwell Miu, Alex Chen, Jack Van der Westhuizen.

Second Row (L to R): Dr Philippa Robinson (Conductor), Severin Yong Gee, Arthur Young, Bokai Zhang, Lewis Hay, Alexander Scott, Hamish Smyth, Oliver Kent, Alex Carter, Sachin Nanda, Angus List, Cormac Prescott, Frederick Vaughan, Ms Amy Phillips (Assistant Conductor).

Front Row (L to R): Jamie Ma, Ferrell Dong, Aiden Ng, Patrick Carroll, Alex Wong, Michael Cheng, Damai Lu, Charles Zhang, Ben Wong, Jack Gorry, Myles

Holt, Danny Zhong, Dimitri Zou, Frank Li.

Absent: Pascal Khosrotehrani, Alexander Macfarlane, Nirmidan Sasikaran, Eric Su, Jack Telford.

Grammarphones

Back Row (L to R): Josh Lotzvie, Robbie Gilbert, Eoin Mullan, Takumi Quail, Harry Dickson.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Peter Ingram (Conductor), James Fearon, Damon Cayas, Oliver Christie, Andrew Beckingsale, Mr Michael Allport (Accompanist).

Front Row (L to R): Afthab Shanavas, Liam Campbell, Punula Jayalath, Tharuka Perera, Alden Sommerfeld, Lu Chee Leung, Thomas Kwan.

Absent: Toby Davidson, Declan Mount.

Grammar Symphony Orchestra

Back Row (L to R): Julian Burcham, Harry Dickson, Robbie Gilbert, Joseph Simonetta, Michael Murray, Benjamin Li.

Fifth Row (L to R): Zachary Castrisos, Dalton Lee, Tharuka Perera, Daniel Hill, Ed Thomas, Matthew Young, Nathaniel Yu, Marcus Yeo, Ethan Tiong, Tom Rutter, Oliver Cavallo Brittain, Lachlan Lee, Jeffery Jiang, Nicholas Kakourakis.

Fourth Row (L to R): Max Gao, Paul Nilsen, Alexander Graves, Alden Sommerfeld, Jarrah Chien, Simson Thomas, Christopher Lui, Oscar Kim, Theo Chan, David Sun, James Brough, William O’Quinn, Sze Yong Ng, Ben Bryant, Matthew Huang.

Third Row (L to R): Chris Zhu, Matthew Wong, Eric Yoon, Oliver Waterhouse, Eugene Erng, Ben Yii, Lawrence Sun, Roger Zhu, Nicholas Love, Michael Beetham, Isaac Taylor, Maxey Tho, Leon Qin, Daniel Luo.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Alison Harbottle (Assistant Conductor), Justin Chan, Anson Qiu-Tang, Nic Carter, Nathan Lau, Lachlan Leow, Thomas Kwan, Blaire Xu, Joseph Huang, Tyler Pearn, Jovan Yen, Isaac Chua, Allen Liu, Daylin Johnson, Mr Stephen Chin (Conductor).

Front Row (L to R): Timmy Ray, Keeran Chang, Ethan Ai, Nicholas Shan, Aiden Xiao, Dylan Paschkewitz, Lucas Lu, Brandon Chien, Michael Bryan, Chris Yesberg, Daniel Ahn, Daniel Zhang, Ryan Philpot, Eric Li.

Absent: Tom Chan, Adam Chua, Jacob Coburn, Ed Cooper, Alex Leung, Kiran Patel, Jeremy Strotton, Jollie Window.

Grammar Singers

Back Row (L to R): Nick Silverston, James Topping, Harry Dickson, Nicholas Dalgleish, Robbie Gilbert, Nhan Nguyen, Rahul Kumar, Andrew Beckingsale, Tharuka Perera.

Third Row (L to R): Afthab Shanavas, Nicholas Love, Alexander Graves, Josh Lotzvie, James Fearon, Connor Fitzpatrick, Alden Sommerfeld, Liam Campbell, Toby Davidson, Chris Yesberg.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Peter Ingram (Conductor), Brisbane Girls Grammar School students, Mrs Ruani Dias-Jayasinha (Conductor).

Front Row (L to R): Brisbane Girls Grammar School students.

Absent: Oliver Christie, Jollie Window.

Vocal Group

Back Row (L to R): Samriddh Srivastava, Ethan Chen, Andrew Do, Daniel Hu, Jai Saini, Guan-Ao Ma, Lukas Liu, Mason Gao.

Fourth Row (L to R): Avi Jha, Tobias Meehan, Alex Fu, Elvin Wong, Samuel Prasad, Shree Bhatt, Henry Duffield, Alexander Scott, Jacky Chang, Isaac Malik, Eli Holley.

Third Row (L to R): Thomas Boulton, Myles Holt, Edward Liao, Ilan Finn, Joshua Fletcher, Bryan Sun, Flynn Travis, Sebastian Cage, Frederick Barrett, Rorey Irwin, Terry Lee, Alex Coursodon.

Second Row (L to R): Miss Bec Thomas (Conductor), Max Bromet, Jay Holland, Ferrell Dong, Leo Koch, Albert Sham, Damai Lu, Jayden Lee, Bharathi Kumar, Fraser Bell, Aiden Ng, Ned Wilson, Oliver Chin Moody.

Front Row (L to R): Zachy Yap, Ryan Ding, Ian Ha, Yevin De Silva, Samuel Dabelstein, Angus Bellamy, Jamie Ma, Henry Woodward, Oliver Hoole, Kiran Kumar, Timmy Ray, Frazer Singleton, George Klumpes.

Absent: Ms Claire Brennan (Accompanist), Ziggy Arumugam, Soren Fripp, Vincent Hu, Christopher Lee, Jayden Ma, Jack Mountford, Ben Quinlan, Suriya Selvarajan, Keshav Siraparapu, Dougal Smyth, Eric Su, Hamish Treweeke, Callum Walsh, Xavier Walsh, Christian Waterhouse.

Chamber Choir

Back Row (L to R): Ethan Chen, Jai Saini, Andrew Do, Mason Gao.

Third Row (L to R): Eli Holley, Alexander Scott, Samriddh Srivastava, Shree Bhatt, Samuel Prasad, Alex Fu, Tobias Meehan.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Michael Allport (Accompanist), Damai Lu, Terry Lee, Luca Waterhouse, Bryan Sun, Jayden Lee, Alex Coursodon, Fraser Bell.

Front Row (L to R): Henry Woodward, Kiran Kumar, Oliver Chin Moody, Max Bromet, Ferrell Dong, Jamie Ma, Yevin De Silva, Zachy Yap.

Absent: Miss Bec Thomas (Conductor), Ben Quinlan, Eric Su, Hamish Treweeke.

Grammar Vocal Ensemble

Back Row (L to R): Nick Silverston, Nicholas Dalgleish, Takumi Quail, Eoin Mullan, Robbie Gilbert, James Topping, Xavier Karmel.

Fourth Row (L to R): Damon Cayas, Andrew Beckingsale, Matthew Young, Marcus Yeo, Nhan Nguyen, Harry Dickson, Michael Murray, Oliver Christie, Rahul Kumar, Josh Lotzvie, Christopher Lui.

Third Row (L to R): Eamman Conomos, Lu Chee Leung, Alexander Graves, Alden Sommerfeld, Tharuka Perera, James Fearon, David Yu, Connor Fitzpatrick, Punula Jayalath, Felix Swane, Harry Beirne, Charlie Fuller.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Peter Ingram (Conductor), Liam Liang, Thomas Kwan, Matthew Beckingsale, Vikram Kumar, Liam Campbell, Nicholas Love, Isaac Chan, Will Yuen, Afthab Shanavas, Anthony Samios, Jasper Chin Moody, Mr Michael Allport (Accompanist).

Front Row (L to R): Ben Wong, Andreas Athanasiou, Manav Bhandarker, Chris Yesberg, Alexander Keir, Aiden Xiao, Thomas Wu, Michael Bryan, Bokai Zhang, Luca Waterhouse, Matthew Amato, Keeran Chang, Alex Wong.

Absent: Omar Abiad, Tom Chan, Eric Chen, Ed Cooper, Toby Davidson, Alex Gu, Sathya Gururajan, Benjamin La, Eugene Lee, James Lollback, Sam Long, Dan Miller, Declan Mount, Will O’Sullivan, Alexander Redhead, Saad Salman, Nicholas Shan, Yuvan Subburaj, Oliver Tu, Jollie Window, Michael Wong.

Grammar Chamber Strings

Back Row (L to R): Jeffery Jiang, David Sun, Christopher Lui, Ethan Tiong, Nathaniel Yu, Marcus Yeo, Michael Murray, Nicholas Kakourakis, Theo Chan, Lachlan Lee.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Stephen Chin (Conductor), Thomas Kwan, Daniel Luo, Matthew Huang, Isaac Taylor, Max Gao, Dalton Lee, Jarrah Chien, Sze Yong Ng, Roger Zhu, Ben Bryant.

Front Row (L to R): Dylan Paschkewitz, Nicholas Shan, Joseph Huang, Chris Zhu, Ethan Huang, Tyler Pearn, Lachlan Leow, Blaire Xu, Jovan Yen, Aiden Xiao.

Absent: Anhadh Virk.

Grammar Symphonic Band

Back Row (L to R): Niklas Dark, Nick Marshall, George Butler, Hamish Moss, Robbie Gilbert, Nicholas Dalgleish, Charlie Ridgeon, James Topping, Harry Dickson, Michael Murray.

Third Row (L to R): Julian Sun, Lewis Martin, Lachlan Tu, Zachary Castrisos, Jed Green, Ben Reinke, Tom Rutter, Ed Thomas, James Murray, Simson Thomas, Oliver Tu.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Jim Noble (Conductor), Rohan Morris, Will Neilson, Ben Yii, Kiyan Rahman, Alden Sommerfeld, James Fearon, Nicholas Howarth, Tharuka Perera, Lawrence Sun, Maxey Tho, Alexander Lay.

Front Row (L to R): Chris Yesberg, Alistair Hoole, Nic Carter, DJ Li, Henry Gao, Alexander Graves, James Brough, Leon Qin, Elliot Chiang, Oliver Waterhouse, Brandon Chien, Jace Ramalingam.

Absent: Ed Cooper, William O’Quinn, Jonathan Parry.

Grammar Voices

Back Row (L to R): Felix Swane, Connor Fitzpatrick, Nhan Nguyen, James Topping, Nick Silverston, Xavier Karmel, Matthew Young, Harry Beirne.

Second Row (L to R): Chris Yesberg, Thomas Wu, Vikram Kumar, Charlie Fuller, Nicholas Love, Matthew Beckingsale, Liam Liang.

Front Row (L to R): Luca Waterhouse, Ben Wong, Manav Bhandarker, Jasper Chin Moody, Matthew Amato, Keeran Chang, Alex Wong, Michael Bryan.

Absent: Mrs Colleen Guilfoyle (Conductor), Ms Claire Brennan (Accompanist), Omar Abiad, Tom Chan, Eric Chen, Benjamin La, Sam Long, Dan Miller, Alexander Redhead, Oliver Tu, Jollie Window.

Senior Percussion Ensemble

Back Row (L to R): Mr Lucas Gordon (Conductor), Oliver Tu, Simson Thomas, Charlie Ridgeon, Lachlan Tu, Kiran Patel.

Front Row (L to R): Alistair Hoole, Matthew Wong, Paul Nilsen, Sze Yong Ng, Lehan Ling, Lucas Lu.

Tartini Strings

Back Row (L to R): Arthur Hames, Nhan Nguyen, Martin Wallis.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Alison Harbottle (Conductor), Alexander Keir, Shaun Li, Harsha Cikaluru, Matthew Young, Aowen Ding, Anson Qiu-Tang, Cavel Leong.

Front Row (L to R): Damai Lu, Arthur Young, Sachin Nanda, Adam Chua, Tomos Johnston, Christian Ho, Alexander Scott, Severin Yong Gee, Aiden Ng.

Absent: Tom Chan, Pascal Khosrotehrani, Dimitri Zou.

Guarneri Strings

Back Row (L to R): Oscar Kim, Jacob Coburn, Julian Burcham, Joseph Simonetta, Oliver Cavallo Brittain, Daniel Hill, Jarrah Chien.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Stephen Chin (Conductor), Nathan Lau, Matthew Wong, Michael Beetham, Nicholas Love, Eugene Erng, Lachlan Leow, Isaac Chua.

Front Row (L to R): Timmy Ray, Ryan Philpot, Daylin Johnson, Daniel Ahn, Justin Chan, Michael Bryan, Keeran Chang, Eric Li.

Absent: Alex Leung, Jeremy Strotton, Jollie Window.

Stradivari Strings

Back Row (L to R): Nirmidan Sasikaran, Will Yuen, Samuel Chan, Lucas Bell, Hayden Scholes, Theodore Andreatidis, Ruiqi Mao, Jenson Harding, Bowen Zhang.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Amy Phillips (Conductor), Oliver Kent, Maxwell Miu, Seth McBride, Joseph Arthur, Afthab Shanavas, Lachlan Aleksiuk, Isaac Doan, Ethan Chen, Alex Chen.

Front Row (L to R): Jamie Ma, Ferrell Dong, Jack Gorry, Charles Zhang, Bokai Zhang, Lewis Hay, Frederick Vaughan, Michael Cheng, Danny Zhong, Frank Li.

Absent: Hamish Smyth.

Corelli Consort

Back Row (L to R): Nelson Karmel, Jasper Chin Moody, Joshua Brand, William Findlay, Claude Stonell.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Alison Harbottle (Conductor) Avi Jha, Lucas Han, Joshua Fletcher, Jerry Zhang, James Raaymakers.

Front Row (L to R): Ryan Ding, Jayden Lee, Kingsley Schliebs, Hugo Liberatore, Richie Butler, Harry Findlay, Jayden Lin.

Absent: Nicholas Blanch.

Back Row (L to R): Oliver Graham, Dominic Forrest, James Yantsch.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Alison Harbottle (Conductor), Henry Duffield, Isaac Doan, Jai Saini, Henry Liu, Liam Liang.

Front Row (L to R): Ian Ha, Ethan Koch, Ian Lin, Morris Grant, Jack Love, Luka Babnik, Arthur Chen, Isaac Chuang.

Absent: Ethan Huang, Mac Quirk.

Back Row (L to R): Adam Ibrahim, Colin Sun, Hudson McCarthy, Nicholas Kakourakis (Senior Leader), Kris Dark, Michael Tsai, Benjamin Searle.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Amy Phillips (Conductor), Jordan Le, Max Gatehouse, Noah Wu, Henry Clubb, Sebastian Ashby-Cliffe, Jayden Yeh, Mr Matthew Ting (Assistant Conductor).

Front Row (L to R): Yevin De Silva, Tom Smith, William Di, Malakai Wong, Aaryan Jagannathan, Horace Zhou, Jason Ma, Gabriel Levy.

Absent: Ben Earnshaw, Joshua Spiez, Mahith Wijesooriya Mudiyanselage.

Back Row (L to R): Finn Beltrame, Euro Kim, Alex Finch, Jeremy Wallis, Nicholas Bade, Jason Tan, Andrew Do, Braiden Chen.

Second Row (L to R): Ms Amy Phillips (Conductor), Eli Holley, Jackson Holley, Samuel Prasad, Oscar Menzies, Zac Wrigley, Jack Yuan, Om Thaker, Owen Zhong.

Front Row (L to R): Aaron Cheng, Arthur Kim, Vincent Hu, Alexander Ha, Praj Saini, Jack Gorry, Aiden Lee, Oliver Hoole.

Absent: Hayden Huang, Christopher Lee, Dougal Smyth.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Darryl Bowers (Conductor), Daniel Millar, Xavier Karmel, Cavel Leong.

Front Row (L to R): Rory McGlennon, Alan Yu, Liem Dang, Arun Shanmuga Anandan, Max Nakasato, Zac Wrigley.

Absent: Myles Holt, Hayden Huang, Andre Kwok, Kaushal Varsani.

Back Row (L to R): James Topping, Charlie Ridgeon, Robbie Gilbert, Nicholas Dalgleish, Nick Marshall.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Jim Noble (Conductor), Jed Green, Tom Rutter, Harry Dickson, Michael Murray, Nicholas Kakourakis.

Front Row (L to R): Alexander Lay, Elliot Chiang, Alexander Graves, Alden Sommerfeld, Tharuka Perera, Stephen Kyprios, Oliver Waterhouse.

Absent: Ed Cooper.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Darryl Bowers (Conductor), Samuel Hains, Bennett Huf, David Yu, Dehan Wickramasekera.

Front Row (L to R): Jace Ramalingam, Harry Beirne, Lewis Harvey, Daniel Hill, Cameron McCabe, Nick Hoole, Chris Yesberg.

Absent: Max Gao, Sam Long, Arran McKenzie, Dan Miller, Ryan Philpot, Josh Smith.

Back Row (L to R): Jax Beikoff, Noah Lauder, Archie Wong, Gordon Tsai, James Lollback.

Second Row (L to R): Dr Philippa Robinson (Conductor), Benjamin Buck, Joshua Brand, Nick Hoole, Zahran Haque, Joshua Liu.

Front Row (L to R): Alex Wong, Ethan Huang, Ethan Hussey, Rishi Mehta, Armand Hamilton, Om Thaker, Xavier Lin.

Absent: Mason Gao, Will Greene, Ryan Lam, Cormac Prescott, Sisu Wang.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Lucas Gordon (Conductor), Daoson Wu, Dhilan Varsani, Jacky Chang, Alex Fu, Henry Burke, Lucas Tian, Samriddh Srivastava.

Front Row (L to R): Thomas Gorry, Oliver Hoole, Inness Shannon, Quinn Goodall, Rohan Raju, Patrick Ellis, Dylan Murphy, Martin Chang.

Absent: Samuel Homer, Edison Nagl, Ranveer Sekhon.

Back Row (L to R): Mrs Aileen Bryant (Conductor), Hamish Moss, Jonathan Parry.

Front Row (L to R): Will Neilsen, James Brough, Ben Reinke, Julian Sun.

Absent: Sam Long.

Holst Concert Band

Back Row (L to R): Lukas Liu, Justin Tran, Alexander Redhead, Michael Wang, Alexander Cook, Henry Mellick, Shubh Punj, Joel Stay, Nicholas Hammett.

Third Row (L to R): Ethan Lee, Jason Yee, Julien Anderson, Armand Hamilton, Ethan Chen, Zac Wrigley, Henry Straughton, Chanuga Jayawardena.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Glenn Schaffer (Assistant Conductor), Luca Waterhouse, Jacky Chang, Asher Levy, Nick Kennedy, Elliot Morris, Alexander Jiang, Mark Dalziel, Mrs Aileen Bryant (Conductor).

Front Row (L to R): Anderson Han, Xavier Walsh, Oliver Chin Moody, Malakai Wong, Lewie Prescott, Rory McGlennon, Patrick Carroll, Henry Fan, Jayden Ma, Lucas Qu.

Absent: Taren Aponso, Frederick Barrett, Edward Creighton, Orlando Dunn-Mura, William French, Sam Long, Will Quinlan, Callum Walsh.

Grainger Concert Band

Back Row (L to R): Samuel Hains, Andrew Bracher, Archie Wong, Alex Thomas, Liam Cook, Jonathan Minchinton, Bennett Huf, Rahul Kumar, Ray Yee, Josh Smith.

Third Row (L to R): Cameron McCabe, Leon Qin, Daniel Hill, Nicholas Howarth, Thomas Ruddell, David Yu, Harry Beirne, Gordon Tsai, Matthew Gao, James Butler.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Jim Noble (Conductor), Nick Carroll, Luke Carter, Vikram Kumar, Jeric Gao, Jay Peterson, Alex Peters, William Pendleton, Nick Hoole, Allen Liu, Lewis Harvey.

Front Row (L to R): Cormac Prescott, Jace Ramalingam, Ethan Ai, Armand Hamilton, Eric Yoon, Zahran Haque, Dehan Wickramasekera, Luke Telford, Alex Carter, Liem Dang.

Absent: Manul Jayasena, Sam Long, Alexander Macfarlane, Dan Miller.

Sousa Concert Band

Back Row (L to R): Sebastian Wilson, Shiv Punj, Daniel Hu, Max Woolley, Thomas Elliott, Tim Waller, Oliver Lynch, Samuel Zhang, Hudson McCarthy, Leo Battaglia, Luca Porfyriou.

Third Row (L to R): Callum Hodgson, Ira Adib, James Worthley, Charlton Parr, Ben Bendell, Guan-Ao Ma, Eric Chen, Priyan Bhende, Ruben Tavakol, William Peters.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Glenn Schaffer (Assistant Conductor), Shubh Garg, Luca Waterhouse, Yashneel Prasad, Oliver Elphinston, Nicholas Zhao, Ben Davis, Brayden Huo, Edward Thai, Sebastian Ashby-Cliffe, Mrs Aileen Bryant (Conductor).

Front Row (L to R): Aedan Perel, Ryan Yu, Vincent Hu, Ferrell Dong, Tom Owen, Alex Coursodon, Leo Koch, Ethan Bester, Gabriel Levy, Kiran Kumar.

Absent: Jack Braben, Will Clutterbuck, Prashan Dematagoda, Zach Schulz.

Williams Concert Band

Back Row (L to R): Oliver Lynch, Daniel Millar, Noah Lauder, Arnav Thapar, Tony Meng, Xavier Karmel, Eamman Conomos, James Lollback, Oscar Zhong, Owen Begley.

Third Row (L to R): Kevin Lee, Max Nakasato, Hamish Maybury, Ryan Lam, Charles Tham, Sam Margetts, Jax Beikoff, Joshua Brand, Armaan Timblo, Rishi Mehta.

Second Row (L to R): Dr Philippa Robinson (Conductor), Maxwell Miu, Benjamin Buck, Jerry Li, Ethan Hussey, Cavel Leong, Rohan Morris, Sam Ong, Matt Petersen, Jack Van der Westhuizen, Joshua Liu.

Front Row (L to R): Christian Waterhouse, Ben Wong, Matthew Wu, Xavier Lin, Armand Hamilton, Sisu Wang, Samriddh Srivastava, Om Thaker, Levi Phun, Alex Wong, Eric Su.

Absent: Ms Christy Dykes (Assistant Conductor), William Carr, Tom Chan, Myles Holt, Angus List, Sam Long, Alexander Macfarlane, Yuvan Subburaj, Kaushal Varsani, Zachy Yap.

Junior Percussion Ensemble

Back Row (L to R): Fyn Smith, Jason Yee, Hamish Maybury, Edward Thomas, Leo Battaglia, Edison Nagl.

Front Row (L to R): Lachlan Tan, William Dauber, Thomas Van der Westhuizen, James Worthley, Xavier Rhodes, Patrick Carroll, Malakai Wong.

Absent: Mr Phil Usher (Conductor), Jack Mountford, Benjamin Warde.

Boom Percussion Ensemble

Back Row (L to R): Mr Lucas Gordon (Conductor), Jay Peterson, Harry Beirne, Matthew Young, Ocean Xia, Benjamin Li, Luke Carter, Matt Petersen.

Front Row (L to R): Daniel Qu, Dennis Zhou, Alex Peters, Sebastian Hazzard, Bowei Chen, Charlie Prebble, George Wacker, Matthew Kim.

Absent: Oliver Dauber, Orrey Xia, Alan Zhao.

Crash Percussion Ensemble

Back Row (L to R): Ethan Liang, Nicholas Howarth, Ray Yee, Arun Shanmuga Anandan.

Front Row (L to R): Aaron Cheng, Frederick Vaughan, Elliott Gillman, Joel Wu, Daniel Zhang, Derek Feng.

Absent: Mr Phil Usher (Conductor), Tom Chan, William Chou, Charles Nelson, Elie Supplisson, Jack Telford.

Music Performance Awards

BRASS

BEGINNER B

First Place Ethan Bester (Trombone)

Second Place Oliver Hoole (Euphonium)

Third Place Orlando Dunn-Mura (Trombone)

Highly Commended Yashneel Prasad (Trumpet)

BEGINNER A

First Place Leo Koch (Trumpet)

Second Place Jacky Chang (French Horn)

Third Place Lewie Prescott (Trumpet)

Highly Commended Mark Dalziel (Trumpet)

INTERMEDIATE B

First Place Henry Mellick (Tuba)

Second Place Xavier Karmel (Trombone)

Third Place Sisu Wang (Trombone)

Highly Commended Alex Wong (Trombone)

INTERMEDIATE A

First Place Noah Lauder (Euphonium)

Second Place Ethan Hussey (Trombone)

Third Place Sam Margetts (French Horn)

ADVANCED B

First Place Maxey Tho (French Horn)

Second Place Ed Cooper (French Horn)

Third Place James Fearon (Trumpet)

Highly Commended Leon Qin (French Horn)

ADVANCED A

First Place Harry Dickson (Trumpet)

Second Place Harry Dickson (French Horn)

Third Place Ed Thomas (French Horn)

Highly Commended Chris Yesberg (Euphonium) Alden Sommerfeld (Trumpet)

CONCERTO

First Place Lachlan Leow (Piano)

Second Place Joseph Huang (Violin)

Third Place Harry Dickson (French Horn)

DRUM KIT

BEGINNER

First Place Jack Mountford

Second Place Malakai Wong

Third Place Max Bromet

INTERMEDIATE

First Place Matt Petersen

Second Place Luke Zhang

Third Place Charles Nelson

Highly Commended Charlie Prebble

ADVANCED

First Place Lehan Ling

Second Place Charlie Ridgeon

Third Place Kiran Patel

Highly Commended Harry Beirne

GUITAR BEGINNER

First Place Sachin Nanda

Second Place William Ragland

Third Place Rory McGlennon

INTERMEDIATE

First Place Lachie Bellamy

Second Place Monte Tilse

Third Place Aditya Pradeep Rao

ADVANCED

First Place Thomas Kay

Second Place Andrew Hastie

Angus Newman

Arran McKenzie

Ritvik Karmaker

PERCUSSION

BEGINNER B

First Place Samriddh Srivastava

Second Place Jamie Ma

Third Place Lachlan Tan

BEGINNER A

First Place Nikhail Wijesekera

Second Place Luca Waterhouse

Third Place Oliver Dauber

Highly Commended Albert Sham

INTERMEDIATE B

First Place Rohan Morris

Second Place Orrey Xia

Third Place Frederick Vaughan

Highly Commended Harry Beirne

INTERMEDIATE A

First Place Nicholas Howarth

Second Place Benjamin Li

Third Place Dennis Zhou

Highly Commended Harry Beirne

ADVANCED

First Place Lachlan Tu

Second Place Lucas Lu

Third Place Sze Yong Ng

PIANO

BEGINNER B

First Place Nicholas Bourne

Second Place Henry Liu

Third Place Murphy Van Riel

Highly Commended Julian Chin

William French

Prahas Jarugula

Max Patel

BEGINNER A

First Place Hans Wijesinghe

Second Place Matthew Beckingsale

Third Place Keshav Siraparapu

Highly Commended Eli Holley

Arya Payervand

INTERMEDIATE B

First Place Blaire Xu

Second Place Jackson Holley

Third Place Colin Sun

Highly Commended Will Nelson

INTERMEDIATE A

First Place Thomas Kay

Second Place Bryan Sun

Third Place Jaedon Nguyen

Highly Commended David Yu

ADVANCED B

First Place Eric Chen

Second Place Max-ze Lee

Third Place Adam Chua

Highly Commended James Fearon

Brayden Huo

Josh Smith

ADVANCED A

First Place Benjamin Li

Second Place Eric Li

Third Place Frank Li and Dennis Zhou

Highly Commended Luca Babnik

Joseph Huang

Lachlan Leow

Anson Qiu-Tang

Nicholas Zhao

STRING

BEGINNER B

First Place Benjamin Searle (Viola)

Second Place Colin Sun (Violin)

Third Place Yevin De Silva (Viola)

Highly Commended Aaryan Jagannathan (Violin)

Kris Dark (Violin)

BEGINNER A

First Place Christopher Lee (Violin)

Second Place Joshua Brand (Viola)

Third Place Oliver Hoole (Viola)

Highly Commended Bokai Zhang (Cello)

Jack Gorry (Cello)

Alex Chen (Cello)

INTERMEDIATE B

First Place Braiden Chen (Violin)

Second Place Frank Li (Violin)

Third Place Jack Gorry (Violin)

Highly Commended Theodore Andreatidis (Cello)

Will Yuen (Violin)

Jamie Ma (Violin)

INTERMEDIATE A

First Place Aiden Ng (Violin)

Second Place Nicholas Shan (Cello)

Third Place Dimitri Zou (Violin)

Highly Commended Julian Burcham (Cello)

Christian Ho (Bass)

Ryan Philpot (Bass)

ADVANCED B

First Place Keeran Chang (Violin)

Second Place Lachlan Lee (Violin)

Third Place Timmy Ray (Violin)

Highly Commended Michael Cheng (Violin)

Daniel Luo (Cello)

Ethan Tiong (Violin)

ADVANCED A

First Place Dylan Paschkewitz (Violin)

Second Place David Sun (Violin)

Third Place Max Gao (Cello)

Highly Commended Jarrah Chien (Bass)

Joseph Huang (Violin)

Christopher Lui (Violin)

Lachlan Leow (Violin)

Blaire Xu (Violin)

VOCAL

TREBLE B

First Place Samriddh Srivastava

Second Place Jayden Lee

Third Place Oliver Chin Moody

Highly Commended Angus Bellamy

TREBLE A

First Place Hamish Treweeke

Second Place Ethan Chen

Third Place Ferrell Dong

INTERMEDIATE B

First Place Manav Bhandarker

Second Place Eric Chen

Third Place Jollie Window

Highly Commended Luca Waterhouse

INTERMEDIATE A

First Place James Topping

Second Place Punula Jayalath

Third Place Nick Silverston

Highly Commended Liam Liang

ADVANCED B

First Place Afthab Shanavas

Second Place James Fearon

Third Place Andrew Beckingsale

ADVANCED A

First Place Toby Davidson

Second Place Eoin Mullan

Third Place Alden Sommerfeld

Highly Commended Harry Dickson Oliver Christie

WOODWIND

BEGINNER B

First Place Martin Chang (Alto Saxophone)

Second Place Thomas Gorry (Clarinet)

Third Place Daoson Wu (Alto Saxophone)

BEGINNER A

First Place Oliver Lynch (Alto Saxophone)

Second Place Eric Chen (Clarinet)

Third Place Ferrell Dong (Oboe)

Highly Commended Callum Hodgson (Alto Saxophone)

INTERMEDIATE B

First Place Michael Wang (Flute)

Second Place Oliver Chin Moody (Clarinet)

Third Place Henry Fan (Clarinet)

Highly Commended Armand Hamilton (Tenor Saxophone)

INTERMEDIATE A

First Place Xavier Lin (Alto Saxophone)

Second Place Samriddh Srivastava (Clarinet)

Third Place Eric Su (Flute)

Highly Commended Rishi Mehta (Alto Saxophone) Joshua Brand (Alto Saxophone)

ADVANCED B

First Place Leon Qin (Oboe)

Second Place Alexander Macfarlane (Bassoon)

Third Place Will Neilson (Clarinet)

Highly Commended William Pendleton (Flute)

ADVANCED A

First Place Alexander Lay (Alto Saxophone)

Second Place Nick Marshall (Alto Saxophone)

Third Place Jed Green (Alto Saxophone)

Highly Commended Niklas Dark (Flute)

BGS Theatre Season

Senior Dramatic Production

Year 11 and 12 students embraced the challenge of staging the Senior Dramatic Production amid severe weather events and the delayed start to the school year. The production, Lord of the Flies, is about integrity, morality, and where your compass would point if there were no rules. The cast and crew persevered and showed integrity in balancing the demands of this performance with their senior studies, cocurricular pursuits and student leadership positions.

Middle School Dramatic Production

This year’s production, Journey to Awedon, sought to remind Middle School students (and our audiences) that young people are capable of writing their own stories. The characters in this production are independent, steadfast, and empathetic, which mirrors the very best qualities that we see in our own students. The cast of 23 Middle School students (Years 5 to 8) were the perfect mixture of enthusiasm and creative intent. Students developed important ensemble skills and were integral in bringing the world of ‘Awedon’ to life.

Junior Dramatic Production

A talented cast of Year 9 and 10 students took on the challenge of presenting Dennis Kelly’s gritty text, DNA. The show includes themes such as empathy, community, and violence. The production enabled the cast to portray nuanced and sophisticated characters, while also managing the serious content with maturity and sensitivity, demonstrating a levelheadedness beyond their years.

Visual Art

As another year wraps up, we look ahead to an exciting and bright artistic future as we prepare to transition into the highly-anticipated STEAM Precinct. Wanting to make the most out of the inspirational space, we have already started introducing new artforms, like silversmithing.

Our Middle School students have had a busy 2022, focusing on innovation and creative play through experimental mixed media and kinetic art. They tackled realworld issues in their response to changing environmental and cultural influences.

Year 10 students created and exhibited innovative abstract sculptural responses to a STEAM stimulus, using ceramics, laser cut forms, wire and card.

Years 11 and 12 students mounted three exhibitions of work in the Great Hall and Lymburner Gallery. Artforms included two and threedimensional disciplines and

interactive new media, exploring themes of hope and renewal in the face of devastation. A special thanks to Mr Maxim Varghese for the behind-the-scenes preparation needed to ensure the exhibitions were successful.

Students admired the work of Old Boy Kevin Wang ’21 on display at GOMA. The state finalist in the Creative Generation Excellence Awards for Visual Arts had his architecturally-inspired wall sculpture featured at the entrance of the exhibition.

Moving image and installation artist Dr Chris Bennie challenged our Year 11 and 12 students not to shy away from the rigour of the creative process. He gave an inspiring talk in our IA2 exhibition space. Students were told that becoming a professional artist takes courage and hard work, but it leads to a life infused with play, spontaneity and reverie.

In the lead up to their exams in Term Three, students in Year 11 and Year 12 analysed artwork at the Churchie Emerging Art Prize exhibition, in the IMA, as part of a

stimulus paper which gave them an opportunity to respond to practice exam questions.

In the last term, Year 11 Visual Art classes transitioned into Year 12 with a series of stimulus experiences. The boys began working with silversmith and small objects artist Vivian Bedwell. They drew on inspiration from the native animal collection at the Queensland Museum, the rainforest at The Botanical Gardens and Ken and Julia Yonetani’s To Be

Human exhibition at the Queensland University of Technology.

We were privileged to welcome artist Brian Robinson, who came to share his journey with our boarders, Year 6, Year 8 and Year 11 students. Year 11 students spent a day immersed in creating beautiful cultural blooms with Mr Robinson.

They enjoyed exploring Torres Strait Islander traditions and cultural practices through a contemporary wall sculpture. Our Papua New Guinea and First Nations boarders also worked with Mr Robinson to create a series of spectacular lino cut prints to be displayed in Harlin House.

The 2022 BGS Art Show celebrated another successful year with record art sales. Our unique event — run by a dedicated and vibrant group of parent volunteers — is now in its 53rd year. For the Gala event, school buildings were beautifully illuminated which created a magical backdrop for BGS musicians who entertained guests outdoors. Seeing the work of Year 12 student and winner of the 2022 BGS Emerging Artist Award, Angus Bisset, hung alongside professional artists was inspirational for us all.

As done in previous years, the Year 5 Visual Art class collaborated to develop and assemble a ceramic totem sculpture. To provide fresh inspiration for the project, Artist in Residence Jane du Rand and guests from Wildcall Wildlife Shows paid a visit to students. Captivated by the visiting animals, students engaged in a still life drawing session of exquisite and interesting wildlife.

Four BGS students and a staff member, Mrs Lindy Mackintosh, have all been successful entrants in the Brisbane Portrait Prize, which celebrates Brisbane artists and their sitters. The paintings of two students, Will Spalding and Ben Nguyen, have been recognised as Highly Commended pieces in this year’s competition. An Honourable Mention was given to Ben Treacy and Kayzer Ali.

A heartfelt thanks to my incredibly talented and supportive colleagues, Mrs Lindy Mackintosh, Mrs Rebecca Masciantonio, Mrs Renee Coombe, Mr Liam Herne and Mr Maxim Varghese for equipping our students with the inspiration, courage and curiosity required to take creative risks.

It has been a privilege to take on the role of Head of Art at BGS this year, and I am delighted to be working with such a dedicated team of professionals.

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Sport

Basketball | Chess | Cricket | Cross Country | Debating | Fencing | Football | Gymnastics

Rowing | Rugby | Sailing | Swimming | Tennis | Track and Field | Volleyball

Basketball

When reflecting on this year, I struggled to put my finger on what moment, game or shot defined the 2022 Basketball season. Without sounding cliché, there were too many moments to pick from, whether it was Angus Hume’s buzzer-beater three pointer to beat State High, or George Mercer’s seven three-pointers against Southport, or the Year 8 boys volunteering to run Year 5 training sessions, everyone and every team had their own thread of greatness.

After some thought, it finally hit me. I realised that it wasn’t these individual threads that defined

the season, it was the way our community came out in force to magnify each other’s successes and make this season one like no other.

I believe this wave of enthusiasm was set in motion during our season launch event, where BGS basketballers and their families flooded the Indoor Sports Centre to cheer each other through the skills challenge and shooting competitions. After such a great start to the season, I wasn’t surprised to walk into the ISC for our first round against State High and see scores of boys in their BGS jerseys cheering their Grammar

brothers on.

This sense of excitement permeated into the First V squad as we were ready to build on the immense progress made in 2021. But as much as the enthusiasm fuelled us, we knew that with the loss of two of our tallest players from last year’s team, we would need to adapt and play a highly team-orientated type of basketball. This led to the development of our team acronym for the season—the 3Cs. Standing for Camaraderie Competitiveness and Culture, the 3Cs outlined our vision to build a team, and a program, that

competed week after week and year after year.

I am proud of how everyone in the First V bought into this vision. We were so close to reaping the rewards of this commitment on many occasions. With different bounces of the ball or blows of the whistle, I know we could have very easily ended the season with four or five wins.

I think the saying “it’s about the journey, not the destination” is very apt when describing our season. Regardless of the result on Saturdays, we as a team knew each moment was part of something bigger, as we built towards the GPS premiership. I am confident with so many skilful young players and momentous improvement in just the last two years, we are well along the path to achieving this goal.

I thank the Hardwood Club

for their work behind the scenes. A special thanks to First V head coaches Daniel George and David Derwin for their expertise, support and kindness this season—we couldn’t have asked for two better coaches. To all the parents and coaches involved in our program this year, thank you. Without your contributions there simply wouldn’t be a season for us all to enjoy.

The end of the 2022 season is a bittersweet moment for our program. We say farewell to the much-loved departing Basketball Director, Michael Lake, and welcome Old Boy Henry Mahoney back to the program to lead us in 2023.

I wish Henry and the Basketball program the best of luck for 2023 and beyond.

Second V

Back Row (L to R): Mr Eshaan Raj (Assistant Coach), James Swart, Tim Roper, Jed Green, Mr Ned Brassil (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Sid Nair, Kai Mizuno, Tom Ricato, Hamish Moss, Nicholas Borodin, Hess Chen.

Absent: Toby Matthews.

Third V

Back Row (L to R): Ms Nicole De Domenico (Coach), Bernard Kang, Aohang Ding, Bennett Chen, Lachlan Tu, Mr Andy Galloway (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Lachlan Yu, Julian Sun, Anushan Thangavel, Brian Wang, Jackson Xu, Angus Chen.

Absent: Tate De Jager, Jackson Mercer, Sam Purcell.

Fourth V

Left to Right: David Wang, Aryan Nouri, Sam Purcell, Connor Waite, Wilson Howden, Christos Karanicolas, Damon Cayas.

Absent: David Beetham, Matt Chen, Lachlan Nye, Matthew Pruyn, Hishaam Saood, Uzair Saood, Dylan Yin.

11A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Anthony Corcoran (Coach), Angus Hume, Austen Harry, Hansa Tennakoon, Isaac Robinson.

Front Row (L to R): Ronit Relan, Mikey Yuen, Christopher Lui, Callum Vidler, Toby Choi, An Bui.

11B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Anthony Plummer, Henry Rodda, Guy Hilditch, Sudesh Vedha.

Front Row (L to R): Binupa Ilangamage, Benjamin Watson, Ashley Batchelor, Jack Matthews, Sebastian Bae.

Absent: Alexander Crethar, Myles Houghton.

11C

Left to Right: Mr Tim Francis (Coach), Weili Cao, Orlando Bell Bray, Fionn Burke, Angus Stanley, Tharuka Perera, Damien Chan.

Absent: Connor Haley, Taj Lyndon, Angus Norris, Isaac Robinson, Bramiyan Sasikaran.

11D

11E

Back Row (L to R): Ms Ally Kettle (Coach), Ozair Rahman, Will Siddle, Tom Clarke, Aden Whyte.

Front Row (L to R): Luke Murphy, Ben Bryant, Joshua Stamatellos, Nick Hirschfeld, Simson Thomas.

Back Row (L to R): George Mercer, Rohan Barlow, Alexander McConnel, Henry Hyde.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Theron Pinker (Coach), Hudson Ridoutt, Lucas Bryan, Andrew Bade, Isaac Lutz, Esa Hussain, Thomas Poll.

Front

(L to R): Brendan Cheng, Eric Asomah, Samuel Chappell, Tom Gulliver, Drew Chudleigh.

Absent: Rushil Motamarri, Mr Brendan Teys (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Henry Mercer, Max Moore, William Ewart, Ocean Xia, Thomas Leeuwendal, Oliver Tu, Minh Tran.

Absent: Oscar Bollard, Darcy Carroll-Kirkwood, Nash Furnell, Esa Hussain, Max Liberatore, Hudson Pherous, Joshua Poh, Thomas Poll, Benjamin Treacy.

10E

Absent: Mitchell Khoo, Isaac McNally, Cooper Penrose, Jay Peterson, Alexander Sclavos, Ben Springall, Miles Tweed, Lucas Waite.

9A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Glenn Scott (Coach), Jacob Fox, Lennon Bann, Liam Cook, Ollie White, Albert Du.

Front Row (L to R): Anson Qiu-Tang, Nelson Jorss, Marcus Forbes, James Middleton, Samuel Chan.

Absent: Benjamin Coates.

9B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jon Desher (Coach), Charlie Prebble, Fraser Salisbury, Luke Saywell, Ferdi Rombola.

Front Row (L to R): Christian Ma, Jackson Leong, Harry Beirne, Aowen Ding, Liam Hardie.

Absent: Rylan Pribadi, Nirmidan Sasikaran.

9C

Back Row (L to R): Ms Bronte Corke (Coach), Hunter Neep, Alvin Wang, Mr Telfer Robertson (Manager).

Front Row (L to R): Maxwell Miu, Alistair Langdon, Michael Dore, Ocean Shih.

9D

Back Row (L to R): Jarar Khan, Rayan Mazumder, Ben Mowbray, Ollie Swift, Noah Lauder.

Front Row (L to R): Praveen Gunawardena, Shaun Li, Alex Kim, Will Jempson, Aaron Gong.

Absent: Allen Liu, Hugo Spencer.

Left

James Reinke, Michael Beetham, Zac Jakupovic, Stefanos

Peter Chen, Ethan Luk.

Absent: Lachlan Anastasia, Rory Atkins, Thomas Chambers, Archie Kelley, Mack Quirk, James Reinke.

8A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Gabriel Snow (Coach), Rhys Van Nispen, Yuvan Subburaj, Angus McNeill, Magnus Gislason.

Front Row (L to R): Elliott Gillman, Luke Carter, Joshua de Jager, Charlie Miller, Armaan Timblo, Ethan Lee.

8B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Richard Tu (Coach), Nathan Xu, George Lee, Rohan Relan, Henry Liu.

Front Row (L to R): Will Quinlan, Harrison Corser, Victory Okonkwo, Ashton Hamra, Alexander Lay.

Absent: Vuk Prentis.

8C

Back Row (L to R): Hamish Maybury, Ezekiel Hutton, Nicholas Bade, Sebastian Labagnara, George Chalmers.

Front Row (L to R): Zach Schulz, Harvey de Aboitiz, Isaac Reid, Louis Pincus, Tom McCredie, Oliver Kent.

Absent: Alex Huang, Ian Lin, Hugo Smith.

8D

Back Row (L to R): Mr Joshua Easterbrook (Coach), Martin Grant, Shubh Punj.

Front Row (L to R): Edward Douglas, Chanuga Jayawardena, Shiv Punj, Orrey Xia.

Absent: Jamie Homer, Ashton Parsons-Pope, Eli Redburn.

8E

Back Row (L to R): Mr Shafaat Husain (Coach), Harvey Kerr, Leroy Zhou, Henry Kerrigan.

Front Row (L to R): William Coates, Dehan Wickramasekera, Zac Wrigley, Joel Wu, Om Thaker.

Absent: Sahil Mohan.

7A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jason Cameron (Coach), Aum Bhatt, Will Greene, Alexander Cook, Lincoln Jorss.

Front Row (L to R): Raul Selva, Tom Aitchison, Xavier Grey, Lachlan Lai, Bart Ashman, Owen Liu.

Absent: Alexander Amarasena.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Sebastian Labagnara (Coach), Thomas Lou, Michael Wang, Jai Saini, Nikkhil Jain, Adam Ibrahim.

Front Row (L to R): Kobi Stevens, Oliver Smith, Lucius Montague, Edison Nagl, William Ragland, Brayden Huo.

7C

Back Row (L to R): Mr Tim Fulton (Coach), Jacky Chang, Euan Hardie, Xavier Walsh, Leopold Ryan.

Front Row (L to R): Charles Pendleton, Ethan Hilford, Ben Jackson, Avi Roy, Quinn Goodall, Henry Fan.

Back Row (L to R): Harry Falting, Tomos Johnston, Hudson McCarthy, Borui Robertson-Zeng, Lachlan Clarke.

Front Row (L to R): William Dauber, Daoson Wu, Jacky Tan, Harrison Carew, Matthew Wu.

Absent: Eugene Lee, Thomas Pearce.

6A

Back Row (L to R): Miller Lin, Ashley Boutcher, Alston Lin, Shree Bhatt, Sebastian Cage.

Front Row (L to R): Vincent Hu, Luka Rodins, Remi Ivanovski, Max Gatehouse, Sebastian Bryan, Oliver Elphinston.

Back Row (L to R): Ms Mel Eveleigh (Coach), Andrew Cavanagh, Joshua Brand, Michael Tsai, Nate Karoly.

Front Row (L to R): Harry Findlay, Thomas Van der Westhuizen, Hugh Caines, Lachlan Rignall, Leo Wong.

Absent: Julian Chin, Subir Sharma.

6B

Back Row (L to R): Sky Choy, Morris Grant, Daniel Hu, Roger Dong.

Front Row (L to R): Christopher Wong, Isaac Chuang, Leon Xiao, Lachlan Tan.

Absent: Ira Adib, Luka Hedges, Xavier Ma.

Back Row (L to R): Will Ludlow, Elliot Morris, Ben Bendell, Tom Owen.

Front Row (L to R): Riyaz Paudyal, Campbell Graham, Malakai Wong, Lachlan Euston.

Absent: Alex Coursodon.

Back Row (L to R): Angus Hart, Eddie Poll, Anthony Vidakovic, Alexander Ha, Marcus Swan.

Front Row (L to R): Anderson Han, Henry Liu, Max Woods, Archie Quinlan, Ryan Yu, Ryan Ding.

Back Row (L to R): William Crosisca, Zander Schmidt, Jack Rochester.

Front Row (L to R): Jason Ma, Ilan Finn, Fraser Bell, Kiran Kumar.

Absent: Kai Ischenko, Prabhav Purushothaman.

Back Row (L to R): Tony Chin, Gabriel Westley, Lachlan Hilford, Yuvi Lashand.

Front Row (L to R): Ricky Chin, Martin Chang, Edward Gu, Timmy Ray

Absent: Jayden Lee, Matthew Pearce.

Chess

As Brisbane Grammar School’s Captain of Chess, I can report on our successful 2022 season. After a Round 1 bye, we knew our first game against State High would be one of our toughest games of the season. However, due to great performances from every player, we managed to secure a comfortable 3-1 victory, which was a great start.

Round 3 was against our Spring Hill rivals Gregory Terrace, and we again delivered with a 3.5-0.5 win. Special mention to Alex Gu, who stepped up from the Senior team to win his first Premier match as Board 4 when Sze Yong couldn’t make the game.

In Round 4, we travelled to IGS and secured another 3-1 win, with the BGS Chess program only losing a single game. In the very next round against Nudgee, we managed to outdo ourselves with a 4-0 clean sweep and no losses recorded for the night.

However, these numbers do not encapsulate the true story of our premier matchups, which were all quite close and at moments could have gone either way. It was these times, when we showed our ability to dig deep and pull through as a team, that made the season memorable.

In Round 6 we faced a tough matchup against The Southport

SChool (TSS). With strong playing from our opponents, TSS managed to end our win streak with a 2-2 draw; not ideal, but by no means a terrible performance. Going into Round 7, we wanted to prove ourselves, and with some great chess playing, we bounced back with a 3-1 win against Toowoomba Grammar. A special mention goes to Sze Yong for holding a draw against a much higher rated Board 1 opponent.

Then came the championshipdefining round against our long-time rivals, Churchie. We knew we were underdogs in this matchup, and it gave us even more determination to win. After rolling

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Third Row (L to R): Mr Peter Brunckhorst, Ms Cathy Oxley, Ethan Hilford,

Anoop Balasuiriya, Mr Dusan Stojic.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Liam Herne (Chess Co-Director), Edward Thai, Alex Chen,

Raju, Charles Zhang, Mr Jay Taylor (Chess Co-Director).

First Row (L to R): Anderson Han, Dimitri Zou,

up to Churchie and sharing pizza for the first time in almost three years, we began what would be the climactic round of the season.

Despite a great effort from all the boys, we came just short with a 1.5-2.5 loss. The season concluded with a 2-2 draw to Brisbane Boys’ College, which secured second place for the Premier team in a very competitive field.

Although our Firsts just came short of the premiership, BGS managed to secure eight first place results in the open teams A, B, D, E, F, G, H and I. A massive congratulations to these teams, as it is a true testament to how hard they worked during the season.

As well as competing in GPS competition, BGS also took part in the Inter-School Chess Competition which occurs in each term of the year. Both our Primary and Secondary teams made it to

the State Finals and had strong competition. The Primary team managed to place ninth overall. Congratulations to Dimitri Zhou for coming second overall on Board 1. The Secondary team narrowly missed out on a top three finish, coming fourth on countback with Brisbane State High School.

I would like to thank the coaching team of Dusan Stojic, Jack Rodgers, Tony Zhong and Jason Chen for

helping us prepare for our games over the course of the season.

Finally, I would like to thank Masters-in-Charge of Chess Mr Herne and Mr Taylor for making it enjoyable for all the boys; and Mr Brunckhorst, Mrs Oxley and Mr Kenny for helping us throughout the year.

Cricket

The 2022 GPS cricket season was extremely successful for BGS. Despite losing a number of rounds early in the season due to severe flooding across SouthEast Queensland, our boys played fantastic cricket across all age groups and levels. Overall, our cricketers finished winning nearly 55 per cent of all GPS matches played with 73 per cent of our teams achieving a podium placing.

Other highlights included four five-wicket hauls and a hat-trick, as well as three batting partnerships in excess of 100 runs. Unfortunately, we couldn’t secure a century, although there were near misses. The BGS Cricket community can be proud of its achievements and

the wonderful spirit with which we competed.

We are proud our First XI remained undefeated to secure our first Premiership since 2013. Congratulations to the boys and to coaches Peter Steindl and Jon Hopes — well deserved. It was great to have some members of the 2013 premiership winning team come along to our presentation evening and help celebrate their achievements.

At the end of every season, we award a Junior and Senior Cricketer of the Year to players who exhibit great sportsmanship and application to the game, while achieving high levels of success in the different facets of the

sport (bat, bowl and field). In an extremely close contest decided by results in the last round — separated by only 2.5 points — Ben Rothwell (8A) was named Senior Cricketer of the Year for 2022. I would also like to congratulate Sam Wallwork on an outstanding season, which saw him score more than 200 runs and finish a very close runner-up.

In an even closer contest, the Junior Cricketer of the Year was determined by the results of the last round of fixtures, when Adam Johansen’s all round performance for the 6As saw him narrowly defeat Noah Sriskandarajah by a point and Aadya Wadhwani by three points. Well done to these boys.

Many thanks to parents for their patience throughout the season as training schedules and matches were often changed at the last minute. I would like to thank all the wonderful coaches we had involved in our program.

Finally, I would like to say a big thank you to Sean Rothwell and all members of the Willow Club Support Group for the time and

effort they invested, and a very special thank you to canteen convenor Sue Boughen, and to Don Myles and his grounds staff who did an amazing job in very trying conditions at Northgate.

Thanks to Thomas Hastie who took on the role of assistant match day convenor. Tom did an amazing job getting all the stats and data in to MyCricket and Synergetic and

filled the role of Director when I was away.

I wish all our graduating cricketers the very best of luck next year and we look forward to hopefully seeing many of you back in a coaching capacity in 2023.

Firstly, I would like to thank our head coach Mr Peter Steindl and assistant coach Dr Jon Hopes for their tireless work and effort throughout these unprecedented times. Sadly, many of us Year 12s departing are still stuck in Pete’s underarm academy.

To our scorer, Simon Tolhurst, thank you for putting so much of your time into helping us.

To our groundsmen, your work is highly appreciated and on behalf of the BGS cricket community we share our gratitude.

To all parents, thank you for helping to make this season a success through your volunteer work and constantly driving us all over Brisbane for our fixtures. We are very thankful.

To our number one supporter Ms Chin who has supported us over the past two year. Ms Chin has come to every home game, riding the highs and lows with us. We thank you for your unwavering support.

Finally, to Mr Irvine, who has been so generous and influential to both Tolly and I throughout our BGS cricketing careers. We thank you for our great organisation and for making each season run smoothly.

Hugh Weibgen Captain of Cricket

Despite all the great memories formed over the years, it would be remiss of us not to address the fantastic results achieved by the

First XI. Winning as many games as we did is credit to the squad’s enthusiastic approach to training and games.

Although we didn’t have too many individual accolades this season, Hughie managed to get a crucial 53 and impressive figures of 5/18 against Toowoomba Grammar School. I’d also like to

credit the bowling unit as a whole as they managed to defend totals consistently throughout the season, as evidenced by six of our seven bowlers being in the top 10 most economical bowlers for the 2022 GPS season.

Second XI

Back Row (L to R): Sid Nair, Gabe Hogarth Howes, Charlie McCauley, Ben Mooney, Mr Kaif Mohammed (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Kiyan Rahman, George Labrom, Ollie Taylor, Thomas Hurwood (Captain), Ryan Logan, Nadula Tennakoon.

Absent: Mr Jamie Smith (Coach).

Third XI

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jack Spencer (Coach), Hugh Mowbray, Toby Logan, Mr Judah Grubi (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Harry Scriven, Alec Donald, James Horton, Flynn Martinez-Briggs, Oscar Smith, Sam Siganto.

Absent: Ned Madden, Harry Dutton, Nick Hatzipetrou, Andy Miller.

11A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Will Chapman (Coach), Ashley Batchelor, Daniel Johnson, Sam Brown, Soham Sane, Mr Phil Mooney (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Jack Matthews, Jack Love, Oli Skerl, Jonty Davis (Captain), Max Clark, Jock Horton, Aadeesh Singhal.

11B

Back Row (L to R): Oliver Buck, Ragulan Gnanavel, Guy Hilditch, Alex Thomas, Morgan Jury, Mr Lachlan Johnstone (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Duncan Feltham, Thomas Stevens, Tharuka Perera, Ethan Love, Jonathan Neep, Tom Nolan.

11C

Back Row (L to R): Lachlan Huntley, Ed Thomas, Harro Schulz (Vice Captain), Will Siddle, Ben Reinke, Perry Irwin, Isaac Bassingthwaighte.

Front Row (L to R): Jayden Ting, Nicholas Fasone, Jack Dunne, Paul Nilsen (Captain), Harrison Pope, Stephen Kyprios, Chester Battley.

Absent: Yathav Ragupathy, Alec Donald.

11D

Back Row (L to R): Charlie Munday, Will Sciacca, Ronan Mellick, Alex Roe, Nick Roberts, Flynn Molloy, Mr Kevin Daniells (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Cooper Robson, Nick Meade, Monte Tilse, Benjamin Watson, Nick Hirschfeld, Shane Sirimana, John Kim.

Absent: Rex Bennett.

10A

Back Row (L to R): Thomas Stannard, Lincoln Manuel, Isaac Lutz, Lucas Bryan, Flynn Horton, Mr Blake Micallef (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Aryan Bakshi, Henry Mercer, Robert Cochrane, Josh Smith, Harsha Cikaluru, Sam Wallwork.

Absent: Mr Nick Kruger (Coach).

10B

Back Row (L to R): Jake Edwards, Liam Huntley, Bertie Kendall, Henry Hyde, Lucas Bell.

Front Row (L to R): Ollie Shearer-Smith, Drew Chudleigh, Thomas Middleton, Tom Siganto, Alex Peters, Archie Austin.

Absent: Mr Andy Bertram (Coach).

10C

Back Row (L to R): Zed Lee, Lucas Stay, Oliver Kennedy, Mr Mark Tremble (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Jaipreet Sihota, Thomas Siemon, Max Moore, Tristan Knudsen, Sam Klaassen, Keaton Baxter.

10D

Back Row (L to R): Will Johnson, Alex Roberts, Nick Condon, Harvey Brand, Nathan Buddee, Mr William Ruddell (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Alec Bemrose, Rohan Chopra, Fergus Parsell, Sam Long, Jashin Premraj, William Zillmann.

Absent: Ms Sarah McDonald (Coach).

9A

Back Row (L to R): Lachlan Elf, Angus McNamara, Dom Scott, Hayden Scholes, Hugo Spencer, Harry Beirne.

Front Row (L to R): Alex Spence, Elijah Breen, Angus Clark, Vishnu Kangatharan, Will Driessen, Harry Reck.

Absent: Mr Larry Carmichael (Coach), Mr Jack Chapman (Coach).

9B

Back Row (L to R): Michael Dore, Ferdi Rombola, Angus Cook, Luke Donaldson, Hunter Neep.

Front Row (L to R): Luke Telford, Jax Beikoff, Alistair Langdon, Ben Redmond, Matteo Boccolacci, Jack Van der Westhuizen.

Absent: Mr Lachlan Smith (Coach).

Back Row (L to R): Mr Clancy Kelly (Coach), Lachie Bellamy, Josh Edwards, George Swan, Will Neilson, Mr Eshaan Raj (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Benjamin Buck, Casey Hughes, Sebastian Hazzard, Sam Ong, Oscar Small, James Reinke.

Back Row (L to R): Kaushal Varsani, Mr Zeke Deacon (Coach), George Swan.

Front Row (L to R): Thomas Chambers, Alexander Prowse, Ryan Quinell, Angus Watts, Casey Hughes.

Back Row (L to R): Ned Horton, Moosa Niazi, Yuvraj Dahiya, Armaan Timblo, Luke Carter, Mr Tony Dudgeon (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Oliver Dauber, Ben Rothwell, Rishi Mehta, Elliott Gillman, Jed Siganto, Matt Petersen.

Absent: Mr Jack O’Brien (Coach).

Left to Right: Cormac Prescott, Lachy Walsh, Will Quinlan, Asher Levy, Eamman Conomos, William McDade, Henry Mellick, Rohan Morris, William Coates, Sachin Nanda, Matthew Amato.

Back Row (L to R): Harvey Munday, Angus McNeill, Hardik Bhutada, Joshua De Jager, Mr Mark Walker (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Shubh Garg, Oliver Mellick, Nick Walker, Harrison Corser, Tom McCredie, James Worthley.

8E

Back Row (L to R): Ms Scarlett Buchanan (Coach), Joel Stay, Hunter Chen, Billy Brand, Edward Thomas, Sith Abeysinghe, Mr Lachlan McCormick (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Magnus Wechsel, James Raaymakers, Nick Kennedy, Sachin Nanda, Jack Love, Lachlan McMaster, Anshu Pandey, Will O’Connell.

7A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Mitch Labrom (Coach), Harry Weibgen, Hamish Mackay, Declan Meynink, Max Woolley, Oliver Harris, Mr Dean Littlefair (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Tom Rollason, Mitchell Spence, Anoop Balasuiriya, Praj Saini, Thomas Van Der Westhuizen, Jonathon Tennakoon, Lachy Szumowski.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Sebastian Beirne (Coach), Samuel Kelley, Andrew McLeod, Angus Cooper, Samriddh Srivastava, Mr Scott Evans (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Hugo Macaulay, Bryce Evans, Andrew Cavanagh, Henry Burke, Will O’Connor, George Dunne, Archie Slatter.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Charlie Bassingthwaighte (Coach), Oscar Vanderstoep, Edward Mulholland, Ned Clayton, Frederick Vaughan, Mr Stuart Shirley (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Alex Smith, Hugo Liberatore, Mark Dalziel, Harry Huth, Frederick Barrett, Angus Hoyling, Joey Stevenson. Absent: Joshua de Jager.

Back Row (L to R): Edward Driessen, Joshua Holmes, George Hooper, Aiden Grady, Leo Wong, Mr Hamish Benson (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Josh Ramalingam, Liam Duncan, William Dauber, Will Rockett, Daniel Holt, Ziggy Arumugam.

Back Row (L to R): Nate Karoly, Samuel Prasad, Edward Creighton, Harry Savage, Charlton Parr, Mr Conan Trewin (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Elliot Heath, Patrick Carroll, Keshav Siraparapu, Lachlan Webber, Jake McDowell, Dominic Purcell.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jack Fewster (Coach), Acton Arneil, Subir Sharma, Leopold Ryan, William Moore, Mr Ian Grice (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Yashneel Prasad, Rory McGlennon, Claude Stonell, Mahith Wijesooriya Mudiyanselage, William Peters, Oscar Neilson, Nicholas Storey.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Joel Furnell (Coach), Lukas Liu, Dinura Gallage, Joseph Arthur, Owen Zhong, Mr Zack Wong (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Archer Tiel, Harry Findlay, Severin Yong Gee, Ranveer Sekhon, Lachlan May, Sebastian White.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Gus Dempsey (Coach), Ethan Bester, Lewis Carroll, Mohid Niazi, Noah Sriskandarajah, Adam Johansen, Aaryan Jagannathan, Mr Haydn Murray (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Will Angelini, Francis Wallwork, Aamay Wadhwani, Aadya Wadhwani, Joshua Lago, Devam Shah.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Justin Shears (Coach), Harry McDonald, Oliver Elphinston, Gus Brand, Max Gatehouse, Lewie Prescott.

Front Row (L to R): Gabriel Levy, Clancy Menzies, Flynn Oliver, Luka Rodins, Dylan Murphy, Sebastian Bryan.

Back Row (L to R): Eddie McLean, Elliot Morris, Gray Dalton, Hugh Swan, Dhilan Varsani, Noah Wu, Ben Davis.

Front Row (L to R): Lachlan Euston, Henry Gannon, Christopher Wong, Thomas Owen, Tom Smith, Jamie Ma, Riyaz Paudyal.

5A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Hugo Malone (Coach), Archie Quinlan, Thomas Rose, Thomas Bender, Marcus Swan, Angus Hart, Mr Greg Tier (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Yevin De Silva, Harry Macaulay, Sebastian Sneddon, Ned Wilson, Digby Gray, Ollie Nadin, Hugo Small.

Back Row (L to R): Fraser Bell, George Oliver, Anthony Vidakovic, Ramtino Sandroan, William Creighton, Mr Bailey Dangerfield (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Hugo Wilkinson, Jimmy Skoien, Max Woods, Angus Bellamy, Owen Woodward, Finn Harris, Alex Coates.

Absent: Mr Logan Hawkins (Coach).

Cross Country

The 2022 Cross Country season saw a return to normal programming in training and competition, unlike the past two seasons. Our focus, as a team, was to keep building the inclusive culture to push all boys to thrive, regardless of ability.

With the results of the past two years not living up to our expectations, both Will and I particularly focused on trusting the process rather than immediate satisfaction of results. Our returning head coaches, middle and long distance runners Peter Nowill and Nick Lorenz, again reinforced our culture of community, while coaching in a calm and insightful

way. This greatly assisted the entire squad. Recent changes on Championship team numbers at GPS level meant all boys had to fight for their spot by applying themselves to training and all leadup meets. Having this competitive yet inclusive culture inspired the boys to strive for success, which held us in good stead throughout the entire season. Boys were challenged to “leave their mark at Limestone Park”, and I am proud to report the program left everything on the course.

Placing sixth was an improvement from recent years, which has reinforced our goal of being patient

with progression. With the mentors we have in place, I have no doubt this program will experience success in the future.

While our focus is always on the whole team, it was gratifying when the Open team left their final mark on the program and placed first out of nine schools, due to exceptional performances from runners Alfie Sprott, Max Hooper, Archie Austin and Hugo Elix. This humble achievement should provide motivation and desire for more success in the future.

Both Will and I sincerely thank both Master-In-Charge of Cross Country, Mr Brad Scholes and Mr Nick Holland, for allowing us to lead the program. We would like to thank all coaches and parents who supported the boys throughout this year. Finally, we look forward to witnessing a successful season in 2023 and beyond.

16 Years

Left to Right: Mr Samuel Lobascher (Coach), William Murphy, Thomas Stevens, James Murray, Paul Nilsen, Nicholas Love.

Absent: Keaton Baxter, Dylan Conway, Nick Finch, Sam Forbes, Jasper Gottliebsen, Toby Harpham, Miles Houghton, Reid Keeley, Ed Rimmington, Thomas Ruddell, Thomas Siemon, Ned Weightman, Lewis Williams.

15 Years

Left to Right: Mr Nick Holland (Coach), Armon Cardell, Connor Fitzpatrick, Thomas Chan, Dominic Forrest, Luke Duncan.

Absent: Elijah Breen, Hamish Cooke, Harvey Gatehouse, Kobi Griffiths, Oliver Hudson, Zac Jakupovic, Jacob Matthews, Henry Slatter, Josh Smith.

14 Years

Back Row (L to R): Claire Pepper-Rogers (Coach), Nelson Jorss, Archie Boorer, Nick Kelso, Salvatore Leotta.

Front Row (L to R): Charles Nelson, Cashy Luo, Finnian Mann, Oliver Dauber, Thomas Chambers.

Absent: Matthew Amato, Julien Anderson, Thomas Brant, Archer Davies, Isaac Collins, Oliver Mellick, Charlie Miller, Will Neilson, Luca Waterhouse.

13 Years

Back Row (L to R): Mr Nick Holland (Coach), Lincoln Jorss, Harvey Munday, Oscar Vanderstoep, Callum Hodgson.

Front Row (L to R): Liam Duncan, Ethan Huang, Philip Sangster, Lachlan Baker, Ben Davies, Alexander Donaldson, Daniel Holt.

Absent: Miles Bennett, William Coates, Callum Deacon, Bryce Evans, James Grant, Joshua Holmes, George Hooper, Ben Jackson, Sam Kelley, Mack Kumala, Zac Meade, Lucius Montague, Will Rockett, Peyton Saxil, Archie Slatter, John Stuckey, Jamie Tan, Frederick Vaughan.

12 Years

Left to Right: Mr Brad Scholes (Coach), Thomas Campbell, Tom Rollason, Lewis Carroll, William Dauber, Max Gatehouse, Angus Hoyling, Hamish Campbell.

Absent: Digby Harpham, Hugo Liberatore, Charlton Parr, Jake McDowell.

10 and 11 Years

Back Row (L to R): Mr Greg Tier (Coach), Fraser Bell, Shree Bhatt, Ira Adib, George Oliver.

Front Row (L to R): Devam Shah, Sebastian McBride Malaquias, Hayden Huang, Josh Margetts, Sebastian Sneddon, Jordan Redburn.

Absent: Sebastian Bryan, Alex Coates, William Creighton, Yevin De Silva, Lachy Donaldson, Ben Earnshaw, Isiah Mazzocchi.

Debating

Debating saw outstanding success with strong performances across both the GPS and Queensland Debating Union seasons in 2022. The debating community welcomed many new faces and long-standing debaters, with each challenging their own intellect, critical-thinking skills and teamwork. All of this has been made possible thanks to the huge amount of support by teachers, coaches, and, of course, our parents.

In my case and the Senior A team, we were fortunate enough to not only have the incredible support and guidance of both

Jaguar Nao and Lauren Gunther, but also their incredible friendship along the way. A special mention must also go out to our new Director of Debating, Ms Dana Schottlaender, who made a positive impact on the program. She certainly made my last year of debating one to remember. On behalf of all BGS debaters, thank you for everything Ms Schottlaender, and I look forward to seeing the program’s next steps. Similarly to past seasons, the School’s participation in the GPS competition has been extremely strong. Our 20 teams, made up of

Year 5–12 students, placed fourth or higher at the GPS competition. Sixteen out of 20 achieved podium finishes, and a special mention goes out to the 5.1, 7.1, 7.3, and 11.2 for placing first. The Senior A team performed amazingly throughout the competition, with only two narrow losses against Churchie and Gregory Terrace.

The QDU competition saw 26 BGS teams participate in what is one of the highest participation rates in the state. This is a testament to the large community BGS Debating has built up over the last few years. In this competition, students recorded success across the board. Nine teams progressed to the final knockout rounds of the 14 competing, including Senior A, Senior B, 11.2, 10.1, 10.2, 9.1, 9.2, 8.1s and 8.3. Of these teams, three

progressed to the semi-finals, while the Senior A team reached the Grand Final, at Sommerville House. The topic of the debate was ‘that we should require approval by local communities for the construction of industrialisation projects on their land’. This was the highlight of my season, and after weeks of preparation, the boys and I were ready to go up against a tough All Hallows team. The battle was fierce. We truly left nothing on

the table, and the huge amount of boys and parents that came out to support was spectacular. In the end, however, BGS could not claim the QDU Premierships in the Senior A competition. We finished runner up in the state.

The widespread success across all year groups in the GPS and QDU competitions is a tribute to our strong culture, and I am excited to see what the future holds for BGS Debating. For anyone interested in

participating in debating, I strongly recommend you do so. It is open to any year group, and assists in developing strong communication skills and general knowledge. Personally, debating has helped me in everything I do, whether it be confidence, a challenge or camaraderie. Debating has shaped my time BGS, and I am forever grateful for that.

In particular, I want to thank my teammates, Michael Murray, Will Motely, Alex Thakur and Vice Captain of Debating Robbie Gilbert, some of whom I have spent an amazing seven years debating beside. It has been an honour. The skills and friendships we have created are ones I hope will never leave us.

Year 12

Back Row (L to R): Nadula Tennakoon, Toby Davidson, Sean Moyle, Punula Jayalath, Milan Kankanwadi.

Coach: Mr Jonathan May.

Year 10

Back Row (L to R): Jashin Premraj, James Brough, Josh Smith, Sansith Warusamanna, Dominic Forrest, Adriano Gianfelici, Oliver Tu, Lucas Tan.

Front Row (L to R): Matthew Kim, Arun Shanmuga Anandan, Isaac Chua, Angus Ellerman, Jackson Webb, Keaton Baxter, Aidan Yeung, Neil Sarikwal.

Absent: Lewis Williams, Archie Austin, Finnur Gislason, Thomas Ruddell, Jonathan Lo, Fox Deane, Samuel Fedorov, Tom Kelly.

Coaches: Mr Lewis Luck, Mr Jude Forrest, Ms Alison Cleary, Miss Hoyeon Shim, Mr Craig Timms.

Year 11 Left to Right: Andrew Beckingsale, Alex Crethar, Rahul Kumar, Aden Whyte, Ronan Mellick, Isaac Bassingthwaighte, Jonathan Neep.

Absent: Jaden Teow, Arran McKenzie, Paul Nilsen, Fionn Burke, William Dywer, Ragulan Gnanavel, Jasper Lindgren, Toby Choi.

Coaches: Mr Oliver Cafferky, Mr Daniel Celm, Mr Finn Dargavel.

Year 8

Back Row (L to R): Victory Okonkwo, Archie Boorer, Lachlan Lee, Hamish Ellerman, Eamman Conomos, Eugene Erng, Maxey Tho, Adam Chua.

Second Row (L to R): Lachlan McMaster, Daniel Zhang, Guan-Ao Ma, Max Butler, Harrison Corser, Yago Ortega Quintana, Jack Yuan, Cashy Luo, Hamish Smyth.

Front Row (L to R): Alexander Lay, Om Thaker, Manav Bhandarker, Oliver Mellick, Archer Webb, Sachin Nanda, Alex Sampson, Callum Deacon, Jake Parker.

Absent: Charles Zhang, Rishi Metha, William Nguyen, Mehtaab Singh, Max Gao, Keeran Chang, Rohan Relan, Sahil Mohan, Alex Chen, Hardik Bhutada, Chanuga Jayawardena.

Coaches: Mr Jag Ngo, Mr Samuel Finch, Ms Alex Francis, Miss Neha Pauly, Mr Jay Taylor, Ms Bridget Pearce.

Year 9

Back Row (L to R): Michael Dore, Benjamin Li, Samuel Chan.

Second Row (L to R): Bowen Zhang, Shaun Li, Prashan Dematagoda, Aowen Ding, Michael Beetham, Sebastian Hazzard, Anson Qiu-Tang, Christian Ma.

Front Row (L to R): Daniel Wu, Matteo Boccolacci, Saad Salman, Matthew Beckingsale, Blaire Xu, Allen Liu, Lucas Lu, Chase Pao, Dennis Zhou.

Absent: James Lollback, Oliver Cheyne, Jace Ramalingam, Luke Saywell, Hugo Spencer, Oscar Zhang, Maxwell Miu, Kaushal Varsani, Bokai Zhang, Nirmidan Sasikaran.

Coaches: Mr Finn Dargavel, Miss Tiarne Graves, Ms Beth Kachel, Mr Jude Forrest, Mr Ged Hales.

Year 7

Back Row (L to R): Alan Yu, Thomas Scott, Lukas Liu, Theodore Andreatidis, Jasper Chin Moody, Luke Zhang, Alexander Scott.

Second Row (L to R): Mack Kumala, Turhan Zaeem, Alex Fu, Keshav Siraparapu, Alexander Donaldson, Praj Saini, Nicholas Zhao, Aryan Mandhan. Front Row (L to R): Orlando Dunn-Mura, Ethan Koch, Aroush Kothari, Daoson Wu, Severin Yong Gee, Frederick Barrett, William Dauber, Henry Woodward, Zachy Yap.

Absent: Suriya Selvarajan, Christian Ho, Ojas Joshi, Sisu Wang, Samuel Prasad, Adam Ibrahim, Ethan Huang, Jordan Le, Jack Braben, Leopold Ryan, Subir Sharma, Julian Chin, Jacky Tan, Alexander Smith.

Coaches: Ms Michelle Baker, Mr Nicholas Sullivan, Ms Lisa Whitcher, Ms Mikaela Merrypor, Ms Sophie Lusk, Ms Susan DuRand, Alexander Graves, Robbie Gilbert, Alex Thakur, Will Motley.

Year 6

Back Row (L to R): Dhilan Varsani, Shree Bhatt, Sebastian Wilson, Mason Gao, Bryan Sun.

Second Row (L to R): Aamay Wadhwani, Malakai Wong, Edward Thai, Kiren Senaratne, Isaac Chuang, Ferrell Dong.

Front Row (L to R): Christopher Lee, Tom Smith, Lachy Donaldson, Aadya Wadhwani, Dominic Incani, Lachlan Tan, Will Angelini.

Absent: Michael Cheng, Ian Ha, Harrison Doyle, Damai Lu, Avi Jha.

Managers: Mrs Bethany Wass, Mr Telfer Robertson.

Student Coaches: Isaac Bassingthwaighte, Jonathan Neep, Dominic Forrest, James Brough, Andrew Beckingsale, Jasper Lindgren, Michael Murray, Nadula Tennakoon, Arran McKenzie, Alex Crethar.

Year 5

Back Row (L to R): Ilan Finn, Joshua Fletcher, Sam Murrell, Prabhav Purushothaman, Gabriel Westley.

Second Row (L to R): Leo Koch, William Di, Danny Zhong, Soren Fripp, Tony Chin, Dougal Smyth, Max Woods, William French.

Front Row (L to R): Anderson Han, Ricky Chin, Jack Swayne, Arthur Kim, Oliver Chin Moody, Aidan Shen, Marlin Ngo, Angus Nieh, Leo Armenis.

Absent: William Crosisca, Yevin DaSilva, Aiden Lee, Ben Earnshaw, Martin Chang, William Chou, Sonny Macfarlane, Henry Liu.

Managers: Ms Kim Child, Ms Maude Barrow, Mr Gus Robertson, Ms Sam Kolkenbeck-Ruh.

Student Coaches: Isaac Chua, Lucas Tan, Josh Smith, Sansith Warusamanna, Fox Deane, Matthew Kim, Toby Choi, Rahul Kumar, Aden Whyte, Thomas Ruddell, Lewis Williams, Neil Sarikwal, Jashin Premraj.

Fencing

Despite the significant impact of COVID-19 over the past two years, BGS Fencing continued to demonstrate its perseverance, camaraderie and sportsmanship during the 2022 season.

A combination of new and returning fencers participated in the program. With 46 students fencing in the School’s internal fixtures and another 135 students in the Brisbane School Teams Competition at Yeronga, the program totalled 181 fencers, representative of the program’s significant growth. With so many participants, the whites hire was once again cleared of stock and in need of even more

equipment. However, it has not only been the program’s growth in numbers but the growth of BGS fencers’ skills that catalogued impressive improvement within the program.

Under the guidance of the School’s coaches (notably Mr. Crook, Raymond Kim, and returning BGS alumni Lucas Raaymakers and Hugo Brown), the season was off to a great start at the annual Easter training camp. With the excitement surrounding the school’s brand-new wireless pistes, fencers were eager to join in, polish their skills and ultimately take out the competition. Over the course of the term, boys

continued to train late into the afternoons as they prepared for their bouts on the Saturday of each week.

The value of BGS fencers’ commitment and dedication came to fruition at the end of the fixtures. While growth of our teamwork and skills might be our foremost goal, it is wonderful to see that, for the 16th consecutive year, BGS has brought home the Brisbane Schools Fencing Cup; it provides the well-deserved recognition for the quality of the BGS Fencing program. Of 37 BGS teams participating in the fixtures at Yeronga, 25 achieved podium finishes, and, once again, each of the three BGS First IV teams found themselves in their respective finals. Both the Epee and Sabre placed themselves first in Division I with the Foil team returning with second place in a decisive one-point loss in

the final. The accomplishments of BGS fencers however do not end there.

Throughout the year, BGS fencers competed across state and national competitions. ViceCaptain Ian Wong won state gold for the Under-17 Sabre category, while Hanbi Seo and Daylin Johnson of the BGS First IV Foil won gold in the Under-15 and Under-14 men’s foil national competitions in Sydney. BGS teams representing Queensland achieved bronze for the National Intermediate School Championship, Under-17, and Under-15 foil team competitions as well as silver for the Under-17 men’s sabre team competition. These results show many BGS fencers are competitive at a state and national level.

Ultimately, it has been rewarding to see the development of the program and the new talent that has been emerging. Even in Term 3, after the interschool competition,

internal fixtures continued for senior fencers that wanted to continue some more casual fencing and try out different weapons.

In light of the 2032 Brisbane Olympics, the continued efforts and results of so many participants are very promising. Of course, none of this could be done without the commitment of so many people.

Firstly, to the coaches and staff who so tirelessly helped guide new and continuing fencers. Secondly, to the Musketeers whose contribution towards buying equipment, selling whites, and fundraising never goes unnoticed. Thirdly, to the parents for their support and driving to and from late-night training, and lastly, thanks are most deserved to Director Ms Chin and Assistant Director Mr Hill; the program could not be where it stands without their unfailing organisation, dedication and love for BGS fencing. The 2022 fencing season can most certainly be considered a success and

Fencing is a high-paced sport with different varieties of movements, and often people say “fencing is like a game of chess that is played out in real life”. Fencing improves not only our physical agility but also our mental agility as it is such a quick sport, with decisions on movements to be decided in a split second. You must be light on your feet, but you must be quick with your thoughts too.

It is such an honour to be involved in BGS Fencing. The BGS Fencing community has built a strong, caring, and inclusive culture that generates a strong sense of unity. When I signed up in Year 7, I developed a strong passion for this sport. The Fencing program can significantly impact a student’s

life and change them as a person. That may seem like a big call to make, but in addition to the enjoyment which can make you a happier person, it allows students to develop friendships and can help them academically as it forces them to be more organised. I think what we love most about fencing

is that one taste of success or a hard bout can make us feel much more determined, ambitious and inspired than when we first started. The 2022 fencing season has been very successful. We had a total of 185 boys who signed up. Seeing so many determined boys perform well was incredible, and it was great

State and National Results

to watch as everyone improved so much throughout the season.

Well done to all the fencers who participated, and we look forward to seeing you all next season in 2023.

We congratulate the fencers who competed in State and National competitions. We acknowledge that others would have enjoyed this opportunity had their events been held.

Queensland School Fencer

Senior Men’s Foil 1st Hanbi Seo (Year 10)

Senior Men’s Foil 4th Daylin Johnson (Year 8)

Senior Men’s Foil 7th Oscar Zhong (Year 8)

Senior Men’s Foil 8th Nicholas Howarth (Year 9)

Intermediate Boys’ Foil 1st Daylin Johnson (Year 8)

Intermediate Boys’ Foil 2nd Nicholas Howarth (Year 9)

Intermediate Boys’ Foil 3rd Oscar Zhong (Year 8)

Intermediate Boys’ Foil 5th Owen Zhong (Year 7)

Senior Boys’ Sabre 1st Ian Wong (Year 12)

Senior Boys’ Sabre 2nd Lucas Lu (Year 9)

Queensland U15

Men’s Epee 3rd Tim Hinton (Year 10)

Men’s Foil 1st Hanbi Seo (Year 10)

Men’s Foil 3rd (tie) Will Yuen (Year 9)

Men’s Foil 3rd (tie) Armand Hamilton (Year 8)

Men’s Sabre 2nd Aidan Seo (Year 7)

Men’s Sabre 3rd Vikram Kumar (Year 9)

Men’s Sabre 5th Henry Ballentine (Year 9)

Men’s Sabre 6th Spencer Ballentine (Year 8)

Queensland U17 Cadet Event Place Name

Men’s Epee 2nd Justin Lowe (Year 11)

Men’s Epee 5th Sansith Warusamanna (Year 10)

Men’s Epee 6th Taj Saini (Year 11)

Men’s Foil 1st Hanbi Seo (Year 10)

Men’s Foil 2nd Theo Chan (Year 10)

Men’s Sabre 1st Ian Wong (Year 12)

Men’s Sabre 3rd (tie) Henry Ballentine (Year 9)

Men’s Sabre 3rd (tie) Vikram Kumar (Year 9)

Queensland U20 Junior Event Place Name

Men’s Epee 5th Sansith Warusamanna (Year 10)

Men’s Foil 1st Hanbi Seo (Year 10)

Men’s Foil 5th Theo Chan (Year 10)

Men’s Foil 7th Daylin Johnson (Year 8)

Men’s Foil 8th Oscar Zhong (Year 8)

Men’s Foil 9th Owen Zhong (Year 7)

Men’s Foil 10th Armand Hamilton (Year 8)

Men’s Foil 11th Benjamin Anderson (Year 8)

Men’s Sabre 2nd Lucas Lu (Year 9)

Men’s Sabre 3rd Aiden Seo (Year 7)

Men’s Sabre 5th Vikram Kumar (Year 9)

AFC #1 Open

AFC #2

Men’s Foil 24/40 Hanbi Seo (Year 10)

Men’s Sabre 18/24 Ian Wong (Year 12)

Individual Proficiency Awards

Students who attended training regularly in 2022 could attempt the assessment for their Proficiency Award. Congratulations to all who achieved their next level of proficiency.

Year 5 Bronze: Leo Armenis, Nicholas Bourne, Martin Chang, Samuel Dabelstein, Ryan Ding, Soren Fripp, Edward Gu, Anderson Han, Kiran Kumar, Felix Li, Frank Li, Jayden Li, Henry Liu, Rex Luong, Samuel Murrell, Angus Nieh, Frazer Singleton, Vincent Voller, Justin Wang, Hugo Wilkinson, Danny Zhong, William Zhou.

Year 6 Bronze: Finn Beltrame, Max Bromet, John Chambers, Ethan Clarkson, Ian Ha, Dominic Incani, Remi Ivanovski, Damai Lu, Benjamin Searle, Tom Smith, Bryan Sun, Edward Thai, Dhilan Varsani, Malakai Wong.

Bronze: Benjamin Anderson (8), Riley Booker (8), Alex Chen (8), Dinura Gallage (7), Alan Hu (7), Eugene Lee (8), Albert Sham (7), Finn Silverston (7), Alex Smith (7), Kaiden Sutton (7), Jayden Yeh (7), Mitchell Zellmer (8), Nicholas Zhao (7).

Silver Epee: Austin Cancio-Newton (10).

Silver Foil: Alex Chen (8), Ryan Cowdroy-Ling (8), Armand Hamilton (8), Ethan Jones (8), Jack Love (8), Shivam Pathak (8), Curtis Spencer (9), Claude Stonell (7),

Thank you to our coaches Will Beckey, Andrew Bond, Hugo Brown, Paul Crook, Jude Forrest, Daniel Grother, Jim Hill, Donghwan Kim, David McFadyen, Alexandra Patchen, Jonathan Patchen, Lucas Raaymakers and Alan Wang.

We are grateful to our staff, Paul Johansen, Michelle Ragen and Joshua Easterbrook for being at training and fixtures encouraging our fencers. Overall, it was a

successful season.

Farewell to our Year 12 fencers, Josh Lotzvie, Sean Moyle, Angus Newman, Marton Temesvari, Lachlan Yu, Jackson Xu, with special thanks to Captain Thomas Kwan and Vice Captain Ian Wong who was named as the John Ferris Management Champion Fencer for 2022.

We are grateful to have the Musketeers parent support group. Thank you to the parents of the

departing seniors, Karen Hong, Tony Kwan, Tracey Moyle, Chi Wong, and Janet Wong. A special mention to the mother of our Year 12 Fencing Captain, Julia Lim, who has shown dedication to the group for over 10 years.

Senior Epee

Senior Foil

Back Row (L to R): Isaac Taylor, Theo Chan, Dominic Forrest, Jonathan Minchinton, Lachie Smith, Ryan Cowdroy-Ling, Alexander Macfarlane, Ruiqi Mao, Nicholas Howarth, Grayson Cook.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Jim Hill (Coach), Jack Anderson, Luke Sharry, Will Yuen, Xavier Leung, Charlie Fuller, Marton Temesvari, Thomas Kwan, Daylin Johnson, Ethan Liang, Alex Chen.

Front Row (L to R): Severin Yong Gee, Ben Anderson, Claude Stonell, Ethan Jones, Jack Love, Armand Hamilton, Riley Booker, Eugene Lee, Liem Dang, Albert Sham.

Absent: Sith Abeysinghe, Ethan Ai, Braiden Chen, Nicholas Kennedy, Max Luong, Shivam Pathak, Cormac Prescott, Toby Riches, Max Smith, Curtis Spencer, Jason Tan, Mitchell Zellmer, Oscar Zhong, Owen Zhong, James Brough, Tobias Dunglison, Thomas Kay, Perry Palling, Hanbi Seo, Lachlan Yu.

Senior Sabre

Back Row (L to R): Benjamin La, Jeffery Jiang, Nick Silverston, Jack Telford, Connor Haley, James Topping, Tom Chan, Josh Lotzvie, Ian Wong.

Middle Row (L to R): Mr Lucas Raaymakers (Coach), Lucas Lu, Alex Smith, Dan Miller, Spencer Ballentine, Theodore Andreatidis, Henry Ballentine, Daniel Millar, James Boardman, Isaac Doan, Ms Melanie Chin (Fencing Director).

Front Row (L to R): Alex Chen, Nicholas Zhao, Luke Zhang, Alan Hu, Sam Moore, Finn Silverston, Chris Yesberg, Aiden Seo, Daniel Fung, Kaiden Sutton, Jayden Yeh.

Absent: Will Aitchison, Jack Davison, Dominic Fan, Joseph Huang, Robert Kearney, Bikram Kumar, Noah Lauder, Flynn McCormack, William McDade, Kaushal Varsani, Daniel Zhang, Sahej Bansi, Thomas Boulton, Richie Butler, Edison Nagl, Kobi Stevens, James Fearon, Euan Kearney, Alex Leung, Sam Long, Sam Smith, Jackson Xu.

Year 6

Back Row (L to R): Remi Ivanovski, Dhilan Varsani, Daniel Hu, Bryan Sun, Edward Thai.

Front Row (L to R): John Chambers, Malakai Wong, Damai Lu, Dominic Incani, Will Angelini.

Absent: Finn Beltrame, Ben Bendell, Max Bromet, Isaac Chuang, Ethan Clarkson, Alex Coursodon, Ian Ha, Mohid Niazi, Benjamin Searle, Tom Smith, Sebastian Wilson.

Year 5

Back Row (L to R): Danny Zhong, Soren Fripp, Samuel Murrell, Nicholas Bourne, Jayden Lee, Henry Liu, Frank Li.

Second Row (L to R): Anderson Han, Kiran Kumar, Dorian Kovacevic, Edward Gu, Samuel Dabelstein, Justin Wang, Vincent Voller, Frazer Singleton.

Front Row (L to R): Felix Li, Rex Luong, Angus Nieh, Hugo Wilkinson, Martin Chang, Timmy Ray, Ryan Ding, Leo Armenis.

Absent: Oliver Chin Moody, William Chou.

Football

The opportunity to lead not only the First XI but the wider BGS Football program in 2022 has been an immense privilege and one that I will cherish after my time at Brisbane Grammar School.

The Football program enjoyed a highly successful year, characterised by the significant development of players in all teams, which became evident throughout the season. Widespread improvement across all year levels was testament to the dedication and passion of BGS footballers, as well as the support of the entire footballing community, be it program directors, coordinators, coaches, managers,

groundskeepers, volunteers, parents and supporters.

Despite the overarching success of BGS Football, the First XI’s season was not similarly distinguished on paper. Results did not represent the efforts contributed by all members of the First XI, especially the Year 10 and Year 11 students whose tireless commitment will undoubtedly come to fruition in the years to come.

The First XI experienced a season of many highs and lows, but the camaraderie of the team ensured this season was one I will never forget. We put in countless hours on the pitch, in the gym and in the

classrooms as we built strength and discussed tactics, which allowed us to challenge even the strongest teams in the competition, with many games decided in the dying moments.

The team’s perseverance and unwavering commitment in the face of adversity was especially evident in Round 8. Coming off a heartbreaking last-minute loss to Toowoomba Grammar School, the First XI were able to rally around each other and come away with a 3-1 win against Anglican Church Grammar School, where Year 10 boy Teddy Callaghan secured his fourth penalty of the season, coming away as the First XI’s leading goal scorer.

Countless memories have been made this year, from numerous debuts in the Light Dark Blue and many lasts for the departing Year 12s. All boys who represented the

First XI

school exemplified the values the team sought to embody this season, which included accountability, courage, resilience, respect and trust.

The First XI enjoyed the guidance of a highly qualified coaching team, whose expertise and enthusiasm for the squad help us all mature, not only in terms of footballing skill and ability. This was evident in the mateship and camaraderie that all boys demonstrated for each other. Such commitment to one another is what helped us to hold our heads high after setbacks and continue to rock up to training on Monday mornings, determined to improve and fight again on the weekend. This proved the true character of the Light Dark Blue in every player.

I wish the very best to not only the boys who will represent BGS in the First XI next year, but all boys

who continue to play, and that you continue to find the program both enjoyable and rewarding. I encourage all players to invest themselves wholeheartedly in the program and the incredible BGS footballing community.

On a final note, I would like to acknowledge and thank all the

Back Row (L to R): Mr John Atkins (Manager), Alexander Graves, Nicholas Dalgleish, Felix Cavalerie, Henry Nelson, Mr Jordan Manning (Coach). Front Row (L to R): Joshua Tran, Lewis Martin, George Labrom, Thomas Hurwood, Isaac Schotte, Ryan Logan, Nathaniel Wardrobe.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Blake Micallef (Coach), Christos Karanicolas, Tom Macpherson, Lucas Sherington, Tom Jackson, Cooper Henley, Alex Thakur, Mr Stuart Shirley (Manager).

Front Row (L to R): Isaac Tam, Oscar Smith, Christian Conomos, Anu Manoj, Diyen Ng, David Wang, Ethan Donaldson, Mitchell Wishart.

Left to Right: Roger Zhu, Billy Tanner, Cooper Caines, Nick Marshall, Ryan Tavakol, Damien Robinson, Ben Matheson.

11A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Liam Herne (Coach), Jack Love, Dion Coroneo, Angus Hume, Reid Keeley, Doug Chapman, Saahil Dahiya, Ethan Love, Mr Braden Burgess (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Dylan Tran, Brad Mackintosh, Kiran Selva, Tom Lyons, Ethan Du Payne, Alistair Macintosh, Chris Allen, Duncan Feltham, Sol Ward.

11B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Harrison Green (Coach), Callum Vidler, Ragulan Gnanavel, Guy Hilditch, Ned Johnston, Perry Irwin, Monte Tilse, Josh Tucker. Front Row (L to R): Benjamin Watson, Riley Walsh, Nick Meade, Kai ScottThompson, Jonathan Neep, Tom Richards, Nicholas Fasone, Chester Battley, Elliot Chiang.

11C

Back Row (L to R): Mr Kaif Mohammed (Coach), Harrison Pope, Tom Rutter, James Mees, Eli Jones, Ed Thomas, Jack Matthews.

Front Row (L to R): John Kim, Giancarlo Sciacca, Luke Atkinson, Stephen Kyprios, Will Sciacca, Shane Sirimana, James Pendleton, Anush Mondal. Absent: Ben Whittome.

11D

Back Row (L to R): Mr Thomas Freeman (Coach), Woo Jin Han, Thomas Stevens, Will Hill, David Butler, Harro Schulz, Charles Harris, Edward Gracey.

Front Row (L to R): Aadeesh Singhal, Cooper Robson, Finn Duggan, Hoby Kulla Kulla, Ishaan Keane, Jack Dunne, Ben Bryant, Will O’Sullivan, Jo Gehrmann.

Back Row (L to R): Mr John Duggan (Coach), Xavier O’Sullivan, Max Romer, Alexander McConnel, Lucas Bryan, Ocean Xia, Lewis Williams, Ms Loredana Di Donato (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Hudson Pherous, Ollie Peacock, Minh Tran, Ben Nguyen, Marcus Latimore, Nash Furnell, Aidan Yeung, Sam Wallwork.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Frank McClatchy (Coach), Thomas Stannard, Josh Smith, Tom Gulliver, Esa Hussain, Nathan Buddee, Arthur Hames, Kayzer Ali, Mr Max Brockhurst (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Nate Stathis, Drew Chudleigh, Alex Peters, Rupert Thynne, Jay Peterson, Charlie Lutton, Alan Zhao, Ollie Shearer-Smith, Matthew Kim.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Nick Kruger (Coach), Kyan Bigby, Andy Swindells, Toby Harpham, Jim Curley, Zayn Seedat, Lucas Stay, Mr Oscar Keir (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Pascal Khosrotehrani, Jaipreet Sihota, Thomas Middleton, Kyan McClatchy, Jack Sinclair, Aiden Raad, Lewis Harvey, Euan Mortimer.

10D

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jack Litfin (Coach), Samuel Chappell, Jacob Choi, Zed Lee, Jack Guyatt, Hugo Elix, Mr Cade Barrientos (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Manul Jayasena, Monty O’Neill, Jack Donaldson, Thai Bui, Rohan Chopra, Nic Carter, Oscar Phillips. Absent: Alex Gardner.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Lachy Banwell-Jarvis (Coach), Lucas Waite, Oliver Martin, Lucas Bell, Nick Condon, Julian Burcham, Adriano Gianfelici, Fergus Parsell, Mr Pieter Swart (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Anu Wilke, Charlie Renshaw, Max Liberatore, Max Moore, Thomas Ruddell, Max Hammer, Andrew Gracen, Mitchell Khoo, Benjamin Robertson.

10F

Back Row (L to R): Mr Kevin Daniells (Coach), Matthew Purcell, Darcy CarrollKirkwood, Harvey Brand, John Robertson.

Front Row (L to R): Joshua Poh, Jackson Webb, Magnus Brucklacher, Benjamin Treacy, Mitch Emery, Hamish Cooke.

9A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jacob Minett (Coach), Benjamin Coates, Samuel Chan, Omero Msalem, Vincent van Brunschot, Hugo Spencer, Liam Hardie, Sara Bell (Manager).

Front Row (L to R): Connor Quagliotto, Bokai Zhang, Harry Woodruff, Harvey Gatehouse, Ben Redmond, Anson Qiu-Tang, Winston Woodford, Julien Anderson, Charley Jenns.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Clancy Kelly (Coach), Rylan Pribadi, Oliver Graham, Ryan Zand, Mr Noah Guthrie (Coach), Ollie Swift, Harry Beirne, Aowen Ding, Ms Rebecca Masciantonio (Manager).

Front Row (L to R): Daniel Wu, Oscar Small, Oscar Weatherstone, Bowen Zhang, Alex Spence, Cavel Leong, Chase Pao, Jai Selva, William Marschner.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jamie Foulger (Manager), Max Turra, Rayan Mazumder, Luke Saywell, Dom Scott, James Warren, Mr Ollie Greenwood (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Luke Duncan, Salvatore Leotta, Cooper Hyde, Oliver Evans, Sam Margetts, George Wacker, Matteo Boccolacci.

9D

Back Row (L to R): Kevin Chen, Noah Taylor, Ben Mowbray, Josh Edwards.

Front Row (L to R): Luke Telford, Maxwell Miu, Mac Quirk, Isma’il Siddique, Shaun Li, William Maher.

9E

Back Row (L to R): Mr Scott Evans (Coach), Hunter Neep, Will Jackson, Mr Matt Allison (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Tom Braben, Casey Hughes, Tom Harris, Michael Bryan, James Reinke.

Absent: Rory Atkins, Micael Crookes, Jackson Leong, Finnian Mann.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jordan Manning (Coach), Elliott Gillman, Hudson Slater, Yuvraj Dahiya, Oliver Lynch, Declan Simpkins, George Chalmers.

Front Row (L to R): Isaac Collins, Hamish O’Sullivan, Tommy Hajkowicz, Ashton Hamra, Ned Horton, Kenzo Ko, Rohan Morris, Jonathan Chambers, Orrey Xia.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Rudolph Gabnogi (Coach), Eli Redburn, William McDade, Martin Grant, Mr Lee-Navu Faunt (Coach).

Second Row (L to R): Ms Mel Eveleigh (Manager), Ben Rothwell, Oscar Kroon, James Butler, Charlie Miller, Jasper Garde, Louis Pincus.

Front Row (L to R): Lewis Hay, Oliver Dauber, Miles Bennett, Jamie Homer, Will Quinlan, Jerry Zhang, Arjan Bansi, Julian McKay.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Matt Johnson (Coach), Sid Rai, Hamish Maybury, Alexander Alayan, Ashton Parsons-Pope, Lewis Aleckson, Zane Salih, Max Butler.

Front Row (L to R): Charles Nelson, Mitchell Ackermann, Oliver Kent, Tom McCredie, Joel Wu, Finn O’Sullivan, Jack Brown, Ruben Tavakol, Yusuf Seedat.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Nathan Nguyen (Coach), Joel Stay, Yahya Hussain, Magnus Gislason, Hugo Smith, Harvey Munday, William Leung.

Front Row (L to R): Xavier Rhodes, Isaac Malik, Matt Petersen, Jake Miller, Henry Kerrigan, Zach Schulz, Sam Farrelly, Edward Douglas.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Sebastian Beirne (Coach), Ben Foulger, James Grant, Cooper Wolski, Billy Brand, Edward Thomas.

Front Row (L to R): Anshu Pandey, Thomas Stutz, Nick Kelso, Hunter Chen, Henry Mellick, Magnus Wechsel, Hugo Bennett.

Back Row (L to R): Isaac Reid, Zach Meerten, Henry Xiang.

Front Row (L to R): Sakith Paranavithana, Alex Carter, Asher Levy, Hamish Smyth.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Karl Dodd (Coach), Anoop Balasuiriya, Oliver Harris, Frederick Vaughan, Andrew McLeod, Ben Jackson, Mack Kumala, Mr Luke Lago (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Will Medland, Mitchell Spence, George Dunne, Daniel Bent, Angus Cooper, Rory McGlennon, Jonathon Tennakoon, Ethan Koch, Ziggy Arumugam.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Dean Littlefair (Coach), Eugene Lee, Leopold Ryan, Oliver Hill, Euan Hardie, Adam Ibrahim, Acton Arneil, Billy Rogers.

Front Row (L to R): Josh Ramalingam, Thor Loch-Wilkinson, Will O’Connor, Avi Roy, Henry Burke, Raul Selva, Daoson Wu, Mark Dalziel, Elliot Heath.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Joe Duncan (Coach), Ned Clayton, William Moore, Oscar Menzies, George Hooper, Philip Sangster.

Front Row (L to R): Samuel Homer, Hugo Macaulay, William Peters, Archie Slatter, Alfie Bennett Hill, Sebastian White.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Sam Goldberg (Coach), Yashneel Prasad, Edward Driessen, Henry Straughton, Euro Kim, William Ragland, Leo Wong, Ms Michelle Maguire (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Daniel Holt, Jack Braben, Hugo Liberatore, Angus Hoyling, Oscar Neilson, Cooper Euston, Charles Pendleton, Damon Jones.

Back Row (L to R): Tom Macpherson (Coach), Samuel Prasad, Tom Aitchison, Alex Thakur (Coach), Xavier Walsh, Nate Karoly, Will Motley (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Julian Chin, Dominic Purcell, Jamie Tan, Campbell

O’Reilly, Oliver Smith, William Dauber, Will Rockett, Lachlan May.

Back Row (L to R): Cooper Henley (Coach), Fyn Smith, Lukas Liu, Lexer Wynn, Nikkhil Jain, Felix Mole, Richie Butler, Oscar Smith (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Kevin Collier, Zac Meade, Andy Bathgate, Samriddh Srivastava, Praj Saini, Joe Fang, Cooper Vo, James Irving.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Haydn Murray (Coach), Ethan Clarkson, Max Wang, Gus Brand, Noah Sriskandarajah, Isiah Mazzocchi.

Front Row (L to R): Thomas Gorry, Francis Wallwork, Max Gatehouse, Sylvester Biscaro, Oliver Grigg, Jordan Redburn.

Back Row (L to R): Eddie McLean, Dal Ekeocha, Gray Dalton, Elliot Morris, Digby Harpham, Lewis Carroll, Clancy Menzies.

Front Row (L to R): Chris McKay, Dylan Murphy, Harry McDonald, Luka Rodins, Tom Callinan, Joshua Lago, Riyaz Paudyal.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Ollie Elgood (Coach), Flynn Oliver, Manny Yang, Ms Rebecca Campbell (Manager), Joshua Spiez, Finn Kimbell, Mr Sam Ireland (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Campbell Graham, Tom Owen, Thomas Campbell, Adam Johansen, Ethan Bester, Hamish Campbell, Henry Gannon, Gabriel Levy.

Back Row (L to R): Lucas Tian, Mrs Sarah Lindsay (Coach), Matthew Boyd.

Front Row (L to R): Aarav Lalji, Sten Loch-Wilkinson, Mohid Niazi, Will Ludlow, Aaron Cheng.

Back Row (L to R): Mr John Duggan (Coach), Lachlan Hilford, Nicholas Bourne, Anthony Vidakovic, Angus Hart, Cameron Clark.

Front Row (L to R): Hugo Small, Ollie Nadin, Thomas Rose, Digby Gray, Owen Woodward, Martin Chang, Marlin Ngo.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Justin Shears (Coach), William Creighton, Henry Liu, Jack Rochester, Marcus Swan, Harry Macaulay, Archie Quinlan.

Front Row (L to R): Tristan Luk, Hugo Wilkinson, Aidan Shen, Sebastian Sneddon, Max Woods, Alexander Coates, Jimmy Skoien.

Back

(L to R): Ms Stella Gardner (Coach), George Oliver, Sonny Macfarlane, Jack Quinlan, Matthew Pearce, Mr Scott Evans (Coach). Front

(L to R): Ashton Thompson, Simran Bansi, Oliver Chin Moody, Josh Margetts, Samuel Dabelstein, Jack Swayne.

Back Row (L to R): Ilan Finn, Louis Sartori, Gabriel Westley, Prabhav Purushothaman, Danny Zhong.

Front Row (L to R): Edward Xiang, Sebastian McBride Malaquias, Justin Wang, Ned Wilson, Yevin De Silva.

Gymnastics

2022 was another successful and enjoyable season for BGS Gymnastics. BGS recorded another clean sweep in the GPS Gymnastics Foundation Cup, along with winning the Lead-up Meet series. Many of our gymnasts also competed in external competitions and have celebrated great success.

A big thank you must go to the coaches for their ongoing efforts throughout the year. Thank you to Mr Douglas Lumley, Mr Dominic Robertson, Mr Ben Costin for all their work this year. A special mention to Mr Curtis Hooper for taking on extra responsibilities and performing them to the

highest standards. Without the tireless work of our coaches, GPS Gymnastics would not be possible. I know the whole coaching team is very proud to be working with committed and hard-working young men.

BGS Championships ran smoothly, proving to be a great competition leading into the Foundation Cup. I would like to congratulate our three all round champions of each Division: Oliver Hoole (Division 3), Sebastian Ashby-Cliffe (Division 2) and Alistair Hoole (Division 1) all deserved the accolades with very strong performances.

With the Foundation Cup in its second year, our Division 3 team understood the value of teamwork needed to succeed and stay competitive in this division. BGS gymnasts showcased strength and sportsmanship to take out the Division 3 title. Congratulations to Kayzer Ali, Sebastian Bryan, Ethan Chen, Will French, Finn Harris, Oliver Hoole, Gabriel Levy, Milo Lindgren, Raff McDonnell, Charles Nelson, John Robertson, Archie Slatter, Joey Stevenson and Lukas Stock for their efforts.

Division 2 is a challenging Division; however, BGS encompassed the perfect mixture

of experience and enthusiasm. Even with some injuries, our gymnasts dominated in the Foundation Cup, while also having a great time.

Congratulations to Sebastian Ashby-Cliffe, Seth McBride, Kiran Patel, Aedan Perel, Justin Wu and Jeremy Wu for winning the Division 2 title, in 2022.

For Division 1 gymnasts, the Foundation Cup offers an opportunity to hone skills in the ability to be able to compete with confidence. With many leaders finishing last year, much of our team’s drive to be the best rested on our Captain Alistair Hoole and a few other more senior gymnasts. Alistair led from the front, dominating the GPS Foundation Cup. He was supported by his brother Nicholas Hoole who came in second place. Oliver Waterhouse, Jacob Nucifora and Christian Waterhouse rounded out

our Division 1A team, all pitching in to ensure BGS claimed the title. Despite a few injuries, our Division 1B team – which included Lachlan Russell, Harrison Pearse and Luca Waterhouse – still managed to gain experience throughout the year. They all have plenty of time to develop. I am sure they will be already progessing well into 2023 and the A team. Congratulations to all gymnasts involved in the Division 1 Squad.

I would like to give a special mention to three BGS students who have been selected as part of the Queensland team to compete at the Australian Championships, in May. Well done to Cian Clarke, Oliver Waterhouse and Alistair Hoole on their State representative achievements.

This year will see one of our most dedicated gymnasts finishing up at BGS. Alistair Hoole has been

a part of the Division 1 A team since his first year at BGS, and over the last few years has been an incredible leader. We will miss Alistair and hope his time at BGS has been one filled with great memories.

Thank you to the MAGS group for its work in making the year so enjoyable, and a special mention to Karuna Hoole for her work behind the scenes. Thank you also to Mr Anthony Micallef, Mr Greg Thorne, Mr John Clancy, Mr Greg Di-Losa and all staff for their support, along with a special thank you to Ms Carly Wilson and Ms Amanda Riley for help with all things administration.

We are now looking forward to 2023, and we are ready to face new challenges with confidence.

Rowing

2022 was another season full of interruptions. While COVID-19 was striking down scull trials and rowing camps, the boys faced a much larger obstacle.

On Friday 25 February, severe weather warnings were issued for heavy rain across much of south east Queensland. Flooding inundated both levels of the rowing shed. Eagar to help, Tipperoo members and the boys raced to pull

boats onto trailers to move them to higher ground at Northgate. Tipperoo sacrifices a large amount of time and effort to run the operation of the shed. Their work always goes unnoticed, and they never ask for the recognition that they deserve. I want to say a big thank you from the BGS Rowing community.

Rivalling the 2011 floods, the shed was engulfed in water lapping as

high as the roof as the Brisbane River continued rising. The boys were unable to get in the boat to train. With just a few weeks until the Head of the River, it was crucial to maintain fitness. Our athletes got stuck into the gym for CrossFit-like sessions. While this change of plans wasn’t ideal, the lessons we learnt through adversity will stay with us for a lifetime. After the difficulties of COVID-19 through 2020 and

2021, the boys were hoping the season would be smooth sailing with no interruptions, but I think the unexpected hurdles created by the wild weather ultimately ended up being better for our team.

On a brighter note, the Tipperoo Club’s fundraising efforts and other funding from the School allowed BGS to purchase its new flagship First VIII boat. The vessel has been named after the late Rhonda Cochrane who was the first woman to coach a rowing crew at the GPS Rowing Championships. Dedicating more than 15 years of support to BGS, she helped shape the culture of the rowing shed that we all love and cherise today. The Rhonda Cochrane is the best boat in Queensland, and one of a few of its kind across the country. The First VIII have been honoured to row in her this season.

To any prospective or current students considering rowing, I would encourage you to do so. The

discipline, work ethic and mateship that emerges as a result of rowing will become the high points of your journey at BGS. I can guarantee you will hate it at some points throughout the season, but you will find that you grow as an individual. Parents, I know you will probably hate having to wake up to drop your kids off at West End at 5.00am, but

I promise you the boys will reap the rewards long after they leave the School.

It has been an honour to lead the shed in 2022. The memories, the lessons and the connections from this season will stay with us forever.

L to R: Ben Davies (Cox), Jono Parry, Dylan Stewart, Sam Purcell, Tate de Jager, James Mulholland, Connor von Hoyer-Davies, James MacPherson, Jacob Ong.

Coaches: Nigel Stubbs, Emily Petricola.

L to R: Atticus Jackson, Harry Dutton, Arki Flaskas, Ned Madden, Xavier Craig, Angus Reinhold, Ryan Shaw, Henry Brice, Nick Michael (Cox).

Coach: David Weightman.

L to R: Lachie Reck (Cox), Seth Fidler, Myles Houghton, Jake Nicholson, Hugh Bunce, Harry Clifton, Harry Douglas, Ryan Khan, Sam Forbes. Coaches: Andy Botting, Claire Ryan.

L to R: Ben Weier, Aden Whyte, Will Dwyer, Lachie McCoy, Sam Cameron, Will Pascoe, Alex Brown, Nick Finch, Tobias Dunglison (Cox).

Coach: Andy Clatworthy. Reserves: Josh Boros, Ishaan Keane, Miles Mizutani.

L to R: Alastair Jackson, Nathaniel Yu, Lewis Williams, Lachie Smith, Monty O’Neill (Cox).

Coaches: Ben Spits.

L to R: Boris Kotovich, Isaac Spiller, Thomas Ruddell, Bede Stuckey, Hamish Cooke (Cox).

Coaches: Nick Marden.

L to R: Shannon Simpson, Seb Kimbell, Jack Guyatt, Finnur Gislason, Anu Wilke (Cox).

Coach: Alun Jones.

L to R: Hugh Andrews, Michael Joyce, Ed Cooper, Jay Peterson, Alex Smith (Cox).

Coaches: Nicky Hughes.

L to R: Oliver Martin, Alex Leung, Oliver Taylor, Matthew Purcell, Mitchell Bellamy (Cox).

Coaches: Georgia Maclean, Grace Hudson.

L to R: Max Liberatore, Max Hammer, Kushal Perumal, Ocean Xia, Ben Purcell (Cox).

Coaches: Georgia Maclean, Grace Hudson.

L to R: Nicholas Hammett, George Hammer, Oliver Kelly, Jacob Choi, Alex MacFarlane (Cox).

Coach: Matt Marden.

Reserves: Nicholas Hammett, Henry Tuma.

L to R: William Maher (Cox), Henry Slatter, Flynn Jenvey, Marcus Forbes, Bennett Huf.

Coach: Richard Powell.

L to R: Thomas Brant (Cox), Cormack Willersdorf, Flynn McCormack, Arki

Wackwitz, Max-ze Lee.

Coach: Jono Tannahill.

L to R: Lucas Lu, Ryan Zand, Zach Douglas, Ollie Wright, Toby Riches (Cox).

Coaches: Angus Elliott, Will Hay.

L to R: Archer Davies, Lukas Gresshoff, Antonio Hasselmann, Joshua Liu, Ben Davies (Cox).

Coach: Marcus Mulholland.

Absent: Jeremy Boo (Season Cox).

L to R: Angus Bale, Oliver Hudson, Luke Shepherd, Alec Bunce, Darcy Lewis (Cox).

Coach: Cassidy Davies.

L to R: Ashton Bottomley, Cooper Hyde, Curtis Spencer, James Yantsch, Brandon Chien (Cox).

Coaches: Jim MacPherson, Dan Horsley.

L to R: Angus Clarke, Ben Mowbray, Jack Davison, Maxwell Hirst, Ben Purcell (Cox).

Coach: Cheng Xing.

Rugby

I would like to begin by congratulating everyone in the Rugby program on their

involvement throughout 2022. We took a huge step forward from 2021: all the way from our First XV side to our Year 5 boys in the U11s.

Like every year, 2022 was filled with its highs and its lows. It was a year of progression and great action within our program. With the closing of Term 1 preseason training at school came the inaugural Easter camp, which is a three-day military camp where physical and mental limits were tested. It was here the Open squad came up with this season’s themes of ‘earning the right, 100 per cent effort first

time and team first’. This camp will remain a highlight of the Open squad, the training sessions were filled with both fun and not-so-fun memories. Moving onto Term 2, the First XV began their campaign, playing consecutive three-way trials against other GPS teams. We had ups and downs during trial games, but we managed to grab some wins under our belt, helping to boost the team’s confidence leading into the proper season in Term 3. In Term 2 holidays, we headed to the annual rugby camp for three tiring days. At this camp,

we wanted to lock players into their positions in respective teams, as well as gain an understanding of shapes and structures. All age groups, consisting of teams ranging from As to Ds, participated in the Term 2 holiday camp. Notable performances in other age groups include Under-12 As gaining six

wins, which for some has kicked off their BGS Rugby career. After securing five wins, the Under-15 As produced promising signs for age groups leading into the Open squad for next season.

As a collective, the 2022 BGS Open rugby team produced exciting games and results, which is

a significant improvement on 2021. To the boys in the future Open squad, train your hardest, work your hardest and play your hardest because soon you will be in the most influential age group within the Rugby program and will be relied upon to drive success. I would also like to say thank you to the coaching and managing staff, Vince, Jay, Mr Walker, Harry and Phil, and also the strength coaches, Matt, Sophie, Nathan and Mr Bloch, for your amazing attention to detail and commitment to the players. We cannot thank you enough as a squad. I would like to recognise the Normanby Blues Parents Support Group for running the canteen on match day and for the mums of the First XI for making the post-match function so special.

Second XV

Back Row (L to R): Flynn Martinez-Briggs, Lachlan Mackay, Will Meadmore, Tristan Knudsen.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Vincent Edmondston (Coach), Ronan Mellick, Jonty

Davis, Harry Dutton, Liam Anderson, Oscar Akhavan, Mr Jaye Evans (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Toby Logan, Kody Perry, Sam Mellick, Will Shaw, Charlie Petersen, Angus Tolhurst, James Horton, CJ Samai.

Third XV

Back Row (L to R): Campbell Stoneley, Tom Jackson, Tom Dutton, Justin Lowe, Ned Boorer, Doug Chapman.

Second Row (L to R): Mr David Carroll (Coach), Duncan Feltham, Max McGuire, Jock Horton, Chad Leves, Mr Will Staib (Coach), Mr Sean Forrest (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Carter Aitken, Mitchell Wishart, Charlie Munday, Sam Siganto, Thomas Hurwood, Harry Scriven, Morgan Jury, Elton Fitzgerald.

Fourth XV

Back Row (L to R): Lucas Jennings, Mark Ting-Williams, Atticus Jackson, Isaac Smyth, Jonathan Parry, Felix Cavalerie, Jeremy Spink.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Michael Mullany (Coach), David Butler, Tom Huth, Patrick Holmes, Zachariah Smith, Aidan Murphy, James MacPherson, Mr Alister Braham (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Sol Ward, Oscar Smith, Henry Nelson, Dylan Stewart, Lachie McCoy, Mitty Lodge, George Sayer, Zubair Islam, Sam Cameron.

16A

Back Row (L to R): Bertie Kendall, Oliver Akhavan, Harry Clifton.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Tim Holzgrefe (Coach), Ishaan Keane, Nick Roberts, Sam Forbes, Finnur Gislason, Liam Huntley, Eddie Willmott, Luca Nowlan.

Front Row (L to R): Barclay Collins, Lachie Reck, Harrison Pope, Robert Cochrane, Dion Coroneo, James Murray, Sebastian Kimbell, Ed Rimmington, Will Smith.

16B

Back Row (L to R): Samuel Bolam, Lachlan Huntley, Henny Estensen, Toby Harpham.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Samuel Lobascher (Coach), Ishaan Keane, Thomas Stevens, Thomas Ruddell, Joshua Boros, Aidan Murphy, Alex Brown.

Front Row (L to R): Thomas Middleton, Nicholas Fasone, Ben Weier, Sam Brimblecombe, David Butler, Nick Finch, Tom Nolan, Cooper Robson.

15A

Back Row (L to R): Spencer McPherson, Andrew McLeod (Manager), Alec Fitzgerald.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Ron Cochrane (Coach), Lincoln Manuel, Alastair Jackson, Zed Lee, Max Romer, Hudson Wraight, Zac Reader, Mr Carl Marshall (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Will Driessen, Flynn Jenvey, Henry Slatter, Xander Bourke, Bede Stuckey, Harvey Brand, Flynn Horton, Harry Langdon, Elijah Breen.

15B

Back Row (L to R): Curtis Spencer, Harrison Leeuwendal, Ashton Bottomley, Ollie Wright, Will Henderson, Henry Slatter, Harry Langdon, Dominic Forrest.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Andrew Skinner (Coach), John-Matthew Vellacott, Alec Bemrose, Angus Watts, Oliver Graham, Lachlan Elf, Joshua Kenward, Ryan Lam, Mr Jack Bowden (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Harrison Reck, Kayzer Ali, Nicky Garnsey, Alexander Prowse, Maxwell Hirst, Alex Spence, Jed Deacon, Hamish Cooke.

14A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Harry Curtin (Coach), Lincoln Dalton, Archie Boorer, Arki Wackwitz, Richard Wheeler, Angus McNamara, George Swan, Oliver Lynch, Declan Simpkins.

Front Row (L to R): Lachlan Russell, Jace Ramalingam, Izac Carruthers, Thomas Brant, Jed Siganto, Harper Enasio, Sebastian Hazzard, George Wacker, Oliver Dauber.

14B

Back Row (L to R): Mr James Lowe (Coach), Tom Readdy, Carter Prasad, Cooper Wolski, Douglas Forno, Mr Raphy Athanasiou (Coach).

Second Row (L to R): Mr Tom Scriven (Coach), Lachlan Aleksiuk, Mehtaab Singh, Miles Cooper, Caleb Kenward, Nick Kelso, Mr Judah Grubi (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Isaac Richardson, Jack Brown, Oscar Small, Hunter Bruderlin, Henry Gao, Jeremy Boo, Oliver Mellick, Hamish O’Sullivan.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Daniel Ritchie (Coach), Henry Mellick, Owen Begley, Ollie Kerr, Billy Brand, Harvey Munday, Max Woolley, Mr Pale Feaunati (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Lachy Szumowski, George Dunne, Angus List, Oscar Vanderstoep, Hamish Mackay, Ned Horton, Lewis Hay, Archie Slatter, Bryce Evans.

13B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jack Edmondston (Coach), Henry Davies, Aaron Alphonso, Lachie Kerr, Spencer Ballentine, Yahya Hussain, George Hooper, Mr Hamish Benson (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Hugo Macaulay, Frederick Vaughan, Lachlan McMaster, Louis Brice, Miles Bennett, Claude Stonell, Ben Davies, Samuel Kelley, Joshua Holmes.

13C

Back Row (L to R): Mr Sean Grace (Coach), Felix Mole, John Stuckey, William Carr, Zach Meerten, Ned Lilley, Sam Hirst, Mr Jack O’Brien (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Daniel Holt, Charlie Creedon, Campbell O’Reilly, Oliver Hill, Hugo Haug, Liam McCormack, William Peters, Flynn Travis.

12A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Logan Hawkins (Coach), Sidney Myers, Edward Mulholland, Gus Brand, Leo Ellemor, Sam Romer, Gray Dalton, Mr Paul Warwick (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Jacob Haylock, Mitchell Spence, Hugo Liberatore, Lewis Carroll, Digby Harpham, Noah Sriskandarajah, Isiah Mazzocchi, Sebastian Ashby-Cliffe, Tom Rollason.

12B

Back Row (L to R): Harry Huth, Ed Stephens, Hugh Swan, Sebastian Wilson, Harry Savage, Joshua Spiez.

Second Row (L to R): James Mulholland (Coach), Archer Tiel, Ashton Jennings, Manny Yang, Dominic Purcell, Tom Callinan, Mr Stuart Shirley (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Will Angelini, Ethan Bester, Finn Kimbell, Thomas Campbell, Joe Feltham, Hamish Campbell, Francis Wallwork, Henry Gannon.

11A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Greg Tier (Coach), Lewie Prescott, Sam Murrell, Nicholas Bourne, Sonny Macfarlane, Thomas Bender, Mr Trevor Irvine (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Ollie Nadin, Harry Macaulay, Sylvester Biscaro, Harry McDonald, Leo Koch, Adam Johansen, Digby Gray, Sebastian Sneddon.

11B

Back Row (L to R): William Creighton, Walker Seccombe, Lucas Tian, Dal Ekeocha, Dylan Murphy.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Nathan Simmons (Coach), Mr Will Jackson (Coach), Arthur Kim, Angus Bellamy, Ned Wilson, Thomas Rose, Josh Margetts, Mr Dylan Koopman (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Felix Li, Marlin Ngo, Ben Earnshaw, Thomas Gorry, Hugo Wilkinson, Gabriel Levy, Jordan Redburn, Ludwig Menck.

Sailing

It was my pleasure to take over from Paul Kobez as Master-In-Charge of Brisbane Grammar School Sailing in 2022.

In the 2022 State Championships, BGS sailors achieved multiple wins in both Fleet Racing, with Captain Isaac Schotte and his crew Levi Phun winning this competition, and Teams Racing, with the As winning gold at Manly. This qualified BGS 1, including Premier sailors Isaac Schotte, Levi Phun, Michael Murray,

Alex Sampson, Ethan Harcourt, Ethan Ai, Ozair Rahman and George Lee, for the National Championships to represent Queensland in Sydney. Head coaches and Old Boys Rowan Purcell and Hugo Ghandi brought their extensive sailing expertise in supporting this opportunity.

Competing nationally, our sailors took tremendous strides to work together and learn from each other. Sailing has the incredible quality of it being optimal to have students of

of all ages and experiences to make a successful team. Our senior sailors, with their tactical and mechanical experience, pair up with younger, shorter and typically lighter Middle School students who work the jib and dodge the boom at the front of the boat. This collaboration across age groups teaches valuable mentoring skills and forges memories that last.

In July, success at Nationals saw BGS Sailing qualify to compete

on the international stage. Five Australian school sailing teams headed over the ditch to take on the best of New Zealand sailors at the Schools Teams Sailing Interdominion Championships, in Algies Bay. Sailing in sailboats is completely different to the Pacers they sail in Australia, and our BGS sailors struggled early in the competition. With improved weather, BGS dominated in the second day of sailing and went on to win four out of four races, fighting their way back to win an international bronze medal.

The sportsmanship displayed by BGS sailors is a testament to our incredible coaches, volunteers, parent supporters and staff. Thank you to all who have taken part in, supported, or come to watch our program. We look forward to another successful year in 2023.

Teams Squad

Back Row (L to R): Ms Ally Kettle, Mr Oscar Meutermans, Charlie Fuller, Lucas de Zubicaray, Maxim Kuznetsov, Takumi Quail, Nick Condon, Charles Harris, Simson Thomas, Nicholas Howarth, Mr Nicholas Vile, Mr Anton Saulov.

Second Row (L to R): Harry Falting, Adam Chua, Salvatore Leotta, Logan Zellmer, Owen Begley, Mitchell Zellmer, Henry Xiang, Xavier Lin.

Front Row (L to R): Max Luong, Jacky Chang, Ian Lin, Sam Rutter, Edison Nagl, Jerry Xue, Keeran Chang.

Absent: Charles Harris, Kody Goss, Taren Aponso, Ian Lin, Jonathan Minchinton, Jack Whittam, Jayden Yeh, Mr Paul Kobez (Sailing Director).

Swimming

I would like to begin by highlighting the goals for the 2022 GPS swim team. We wanted to sustain the strong culture that we have all been raised on in our time at BGS. We wanted to make every swimmer excited to train the house down and be with their friends. We wanted to win.

Looking back on the season, I can report we witnessed outstanding growth in tradition and culture, we recorded some of the highest attendances in our history, and most importantly, we won.

At the 99th GPS Swimming Championships, not only did we bring the trophy home, but we produced the strongest Open age group in GPS Swimming history winning a total of 96 out of 100 possible points. We successfully claimed victories in both Open relays, and we were the first school to exceed a total of 300 points under modern GPS rules. What a

team to be part of. What a legacy to leave.

To the public eye, swimming is a sport entirely focused on an individual’s performance. However, behind the curtains is where the real magic happens, and you can see that it is the effort of an entire team that contributes to an individual’s success. The GPS season revolves around two terms. Two terms to train, improve and grow in preparation for one of the most highly anticipated GPS events of the year. While GPS is our afternoon in the spotlight, it would be remiss of me to leave our journey backstage.

For many of us, the swimming season never ends. We were joined by our brothers at the beginning of Term 4 to commence our preseason training. It was fantastic to see the vast number of boys willing to attend, as well as the rapid improvements witnessed by many. At the beginning of Term 1, we were

disappointed by the cancellation of the much-loved annual swim camp at the Sunshine Coast. However, thanks to our fantastic coaching and support staff, we were able to gather on campus for a two-day training camp to have our first swim and gym sessions as a full team. New faces were welcomed, and old friendships were warmly embraced. This season, no one’s spot on the team was guaranteed. With a strong team and incredible depth of talent, swimmers had to push to new heights to hit PBs and make it into their first teams. Our overall success was only possible thanks to mateship and support between swimmers.

I would be lying if I wrote that this season was without challenges. We faced a short season riddled with COVID-19 uncertainties, rising floodwaters and the postponement of the GPS championships. I was proud the boys did not fall victim to uncontrollable events and did not

let negative disruptions define who we were as a team. This season, we successfully kindled the spark of culture that we, the Seniors, hold so dearly from our own experiences and want to leave as a mark to shape future teams. The unfaltering support by each swimmer allowed us to show our strength and push

past challenges, both in and out of the pool.

Leading into GPS, we raced at lead-up meets every Friday night and competed at our annual School Championships. Seeing the boys get behind each other every time we stepped into Chandler as fantastic, especially watching on as many

2022 New School Championship Records

recorded outstanding PBs and hit new milestones.

At our School Championships, we witnessed some incredible results. Some of the most notable included Mason Gao breaking two school records, Eugene Lee breaking five and William Jordan setting a new Open record. I would also like to highlight and congratulate all swimmers who were crowned Age Champions on the day.

Following our own Championships came the anticipated Grammar Only Night, where we saw 1904 Olympian Frank Gailey get inducted into our Hall of Fame. As swimmers gave it their everything with each stroke, there wasn’t a moment of silence. Our sense of team pride, spirit and culture was on display that night, as roars of support and encouragement echoed through the ISC. A highlight was the commencement of the traditional Old Boys versus Students Relay.

2022 BGS Swimming Champions

Kumar

Shen

Lee

Ashby-Cliffe

Spiez 13&U

Nathan

Elliott

Slater

14&U

Luo

Simpkins

Nelson

15&U

Lutton

Woodhouse

Nathan

16&U

Nelson

Elliott

Jordan

Sommerville

Mellick

Despite the strength of our team, we faced one of the biggest races of the night. We split fast times with no false starts, but alas, we were beaten by a fingertip. It was a pleasure to race Old Boys Gus Whittome ‘20, Henry Sommerville ‘20, Alex Fenton ‘20, Hunter Pyne ‘20, Alex Grant ’18 and Joe Jackson ‘17.

Junior GPS is an opportunity for our younger swimmers to grow accustomed to the GPS environment and to display their talents. Despite tough competition from other schools, the depth of talent and strong mateship among younger swimmers was great to see.

We had very strong performances and a new GPS record set by Mason Gao, Tom Gorry, Aiden Shen and Lachlan Donaldson in the 11&U Medley Relay and multiple outstanding swims to secure various First placings.

The senior team entered Chandler motivated to leave with the trophy. Going into the meet, we knew it would be a fight to the end against strong TSS and Nudgee teams. We knew we were ready to rise to the occasion. We kicked off the first event guns blazing with a strong second in the Opens 400metre, and Vice Captain Josh Anderson blitzing the competition to win the Opens 200IM.

Our success didn’t stop there. High in spirits, we watched Josh claim a win in the 100m Breaststroke, Ronan Mellick win the 16&U 50m Freestyle, Max Gao win the 14&U 50m Breaststroke, Declan Simpkins and Matthew Nathan win their age group 50m Butterfly and Edward Sommerville, carrying the team home claiming three individual and one relay win, dominating the Opens 50m, 100m and 200m Freestyle.

Moving into the relays, we knew it was going to be a tough battle. We were sitting just behind TSS and Nudgee was following close on our heels. However, our training paid off and with the support of the crowd and each other, we finished up winning the 13&U 4x50m Medley Relay, 14&U 4x50m Medley Relay, and achieving our dream to win both the Open 4x50m Medley Relay and Open 6x50m Freestyle Relay.

Across the night, we watched every athlete dig deep and leave their mark in the pool. Our outstanding results left us in happy tears at the end of the night, as we were announced as the winners of the 2022 GPS Swimming Championships.

On behalf of the entire BGS swim team, I would like to express our gratitude to our supporters who gave up valuable time to come to watch us. You saw us through the

2022 Junior GPS Championship First Placegetters

Name Event

11&U

Mason Gao 100m Freestyle (Div. 2)

50m Breaststroke (Div. 1)

(GPS record)

50m Freestyle (Div. 1)

Lachlan Donaldson 100m Freestyle (Div. 1)

50m Freestyle (Div. 2)

50m Butterfly (Div. 2)

Nicholas Bourne 50m Freestyle (Div. 4)

50m Backstroke (Div. 3)

Aidan Shen 50m Backstroke (Div. 2)

50m Butterfly (Div. 1)

Thomas Gorry 50m Backstroke (Div. 4)

Mason Gao, Lachlan Donaldson, Thomas Gorry, Aidan Shen

Nicholas Bourne, Teddy Lau, Lucas Tian, Tom Bender

Sylvester Biscaro, Isiah Mazzochi, Chris McKay, Sonny Macfarlane

Medley Relay (GPS record)

2022 GPS Championships First Placegetters

Freestyle Relay (Div. 1)

Freestyle Relay (Div. 2)

12&U

Max Wang 50m Breaststroke (Div. 1)

Max Wang, Sebastian Ashby-Cliffe

Joshua Spiez

Leo

night and your cheers lifted us beyond our limits.

I would like to thank all parents and volunteers who constantly supported the team and assisted throughout the season, providing much-loved breakfasts, and helping at lead-up meets and Grammar Only Night.

As Captain of Swimming in 2022, I would again like to thank Headmaster Mr Micallef, Deputy Head of Cocurriculum Mr Thorne, Director of PE, Sport and Activities Mr Clancy, Assistant Director of Sport Mr DiLosa, Swimming Director Mr Logan and Head Coach Bobby Jovanovich, for giving Josh and myself the honour of leading the program.

Funnily enough, every year I enjoy reading the swim captain’s end of year address. I could never have imagined that, as I write this, I will have already competed as a member of the BGS swim team for the last time. However, while I reflect on our journey,

I am proud to say that I was a part of this outstanding culture. I know I am leaving the culture, spirit and future of the team in capable hands.

Thank you swimmers of 2022. It was a pleasure to be amongst you, watch you grow and strive for the best. You made this season enjoyable and memorable, and while I will miss you all, I wish you the best for your future endeavours. I know you will do our school proud.

16 Years

Back Row (L to R): Ronan Mellick, Reid Keeley, Ned Weightman, Lachie Elliott, Hudson Ridoutt.

Front Row (L to R): Ed Rimmington, Tom Brittain, Rupert Sommerville, Kai Scott-Thompson, Edward Nelson.

15 Years

Back Row (L to R): Oliver Schnitzerling, Henry Slatter, Liam Cook, Max Romer, Hayden Scholes, Tom Chan.

Front Row (L to R): Chris Nathan, Roc Palmos Woodhouse, Morgan Gao, Kyan Bigby, Charlie Lutton, Harry Xue.

14 Years

Back Row (L to R): Rylan Pribadi, Lachlan Anastasia, Max Gao, Oliver Lynch, Archie Boorer, Declan Simpkins, Ezekiel Hutton, Dennis Zhou.

Front Row (L to R): Isaac Richardson, Sean Dwyer, Lachlan Aleksiuk, Jed Siganto, Jake Miller, Cashy Luo, Alexander Lay, Charles Nelson.

13 Years

Back Row (L to R): Samuel Zhang, Lachlan Baker, Lachie Kerr, Ollie Kerr, Alexander Cook, Curtis Lin, Aum Bhatt, Thomas Elliott, Hudson Slater.

Second Row (L to R): Matthew Nathan, Joshua Poynter, Hudson McCarthy, Jaedon Nguyen, Zac Meade, Henry Mellick, Sam Hirst, Oliver Hill, Eugene Lee.

Front Row (L to R): Jack Gorry, Joshua Holmes, Samriddh Srivastava, Maverick Harris, Adam Ibrahim, Peyton Saxil, William Peters, Frederick Barrett, Callum Deacon.

12 Years

Back Row (L to R): Ashley Boutcher, Ben Bendell, Lexer Wynn, Leo Ellemor, Aiden Grady, Sidney Myers, Sebastian Wilson.

Second Row (L to R): Rorey Irwin, Brayden Huo. Oliver Elphinston, Alex Fu, Nicholas Zhao, Joshua Spiez, Max Wang, Kiren Senaratne, Sebastian AshbyCliffe, Damai Lu.

Front Row (L to R): Tom Smith, Jacob Haylock, Hamish Campbell, Henry Fan, Hugo Liberatore, Tom Campbell, Vincent Hu, Ethan Moore, Ziggy Arumugam.

11 Years

Back Row (L to R): Kai Ischenko, Tom Bender, Sonny Macfarlane, Mason Gao, Shree Bhatt, Lucas Tian, Nicholas Bourne, Isiah Mazzocchi, Alexander Ha.

Front Row (L to R): Sebastian Bryan, Teddy Lau, Lachy Donaldson, Fraser Bell, Sylvester Biscaro, Chris McKay, Thomas Gorry, Aidan Shen.

10 Years

Tennis

The 2022 GPS Tennis season; a season of hardship but mostly of success. Success, however, did not come from a stroke of luck, but rather the results of weeks of work and dedication from the beginning of the season. That beginning led to the end on the last day of Term 2 on a Friday morning, when the boys were playing away at BBC.

Our flagship team had one task set in play, which started on the first day of GPS tennis. A task set in play for each player to go out every weekend to compete and perform to win the Premiership. As the term progressed, the boys walked out weekend after weekend to

compete, to perform, to win. That process ended on this day, when 99 per cent of the task was complete.

That day we needed to grasp that final one per cent, which had three requirements. No different to any other weekend – compete, perform, win. Against our BBC rivals, however, that one per cent seemed tougher than the other 99 per cent. On behalf of the First IV boys Oscar, Sam and Isaac, I’m proud to report, the task was complete. With a result of 8-0, it was mission complete; we competed, we performed, and we won. The Premiership was ours.

The success of the season is

in no way represented by the efforts of just one team. Eleven other teams went undefeated, and an exceptional result for all four Year 9 A, B, C, and D teams going undefeated. Our Second and Fourth teams fell shy of the Premiership, suffering just two losses and one loss respectively. The results speak for themselves, highlighting the incredible range of skills by the 170 boys who registered to compete.

Our fighting spirit was present from preseason. Players worked hard at training camps and in match practice, before testing their skills in a variety of tournaments. Converting skills from training to

First IV

tournaments proved vital to the success of the season. With such strong competition in the GPS Tennis Championships, I imagine team selection was a tough decision for Mr Fancutt, who had to choose who would represent the light dark blue.

With a strong first round against Brisbane State High where we suffered just one loss across all teams, it became clear the boys were true representatives of

the light dark blue. This success continued in a 26 win to one loss record against Terrace.

Patches of rain disrupted the next two weeks of GPS tennis, so the boys had to play fresh with no match practice the following week. However, with scores of 21-6 against TSS, 15-2 against Toowoomba Grammar, and 21-7 against Churchie, our players continued their domination across the season. As seems to always be

the case, BBC proved our toughest competitor, as they rivalled spots against a number of teams. BGS boys managed to secure the win, however, with an 18-10 record, concluding the incredible success of the season that the boys had worked so hard for and so rightly deserved.

Our achievements have only been possible thanks to the guidance of our coaching staff. On behalf of all players, I would

like to thank Harry Lee, who is always the first and last at the courts, organising daily trainings in addition to his own dedication to coaching. Thank you Chris and Charlie Fancutt for sharing your priceless knowledge with the players, putting in all your time for our benefit and our improvement. Thank you Michael Fancutt for the time and effort you set aside to manage the BGS Tennis program. From players to coaches and the entire community, I cannot thank you enough for your dedication to the program and for creating such a wonderful community. Thank you all for being such an integral part of my BGS journey. I could not have asked for better mentors, and I know the younger players remain in fantastic hands.

I began at BGS six years ago. Back then, I thought I had time. Time to have another shot at re-doing all the losses and reliving all the wins. But my time is up, and I wish I had more. BGS Tennis has been my home away from home, where I have made friendships with players and coaches that I know will last a lifetime. The BGS Tennis community is one of diversity, a place for everlasting bonds and treasured memories. I would redo it all again just to relive some of those moments – I would not change a thing. I can undoubtedly say, alongside Oscar Tan, it has been a pleasure to have captained the Tennis program. I wish everyone in the BGS Tennis community the best of luck.

Year 10

Back Row (L to R): William Murphy, Samuel Hains, Campbell Agnew, Thomas Poll, Connor Fitzpatrick, Andrew Zhuang, Jason Zhang.

Front Row (L to R): Adam James, Isaac Chua, Lucas Tan, Nicholas Love, Jonathan Loh, Oliver Tham, Keaton Baxter.

Year 9

Back Row (L to R): Angus Cook, Yoshi Becker, Matthew Young, James Yantsch.

Second Row (L to R): Jax Beikoff, Nick Carroll, Charlie Prebble, Taren Aponso, Ryan Bashirzadeh, Alex Kim.

Front Row (L to R): Jack Van der Westhuizen, Sam Ong, Armon Cardell, Ryan Lam, Christian Ma, Liam Liang, Thomas Chambers.

Absent: Angus Bale, Angus Carew, Flynn Moore.

Year 8

Back Row (L to R): Matty Townsend, Max Nakasato, Jeric Gao, Eamman Conomos, Zev Geffen, Eugene Erng, Braiden Chen.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Harry Lee (Coach), Rohan Goel, Adam Chua, Nick Walker, Aaron Alphonso, Yago Ortega Quintana, Nicholas Shan, Eamon Lai.

Front Row (L to R): Will O’Connell, Cashy Luo, Chanuga Jayawardena, Michael Rousson, Priyan Bhende, Tobias Meehan, Nikhail Wijesekera, Max McKinnon.

Year 7

Back Row (L to R): Sisu Wang, Curtis Lin, Charles Tham, Lachlan Clarke, Jasper Chin Moody.

Second Row (L to R): Mr Harry Lee (Coach), Thomas Van der Westhuizen, Hudson Ho, Alex Fu, Zachary Lisec, Harry Savage, Matthew Wu, Ben Wong.

Front Row (L to R): Oliver Hoole, Jack Gorry, Harry Findlay, Levi Phun, Quinn Goodall, Alexander Wong, Patrick Ellis, Jayden Lin, Zachy Yap.

Year 6

Back Row (L to R): Isaac Chuang, Roger Dong, Yixiang Cheng, Morris Grant, Noah Wu, Kiren Senaratne, Prahas Jarugula, Aiden Ng.

Front Row (L to R): Sebastian Bryan, Dominic Incani, Nelson Wang, Ferrell Dong, Reuben Luong, Leon Xiao, Ethan Moore, Lachlan Tan, Will Angelini.

Year 5

Back Row (L to R): William Di, Jason Ma, Zander Schmidt, Eddie Poll, Alexander Ha, Thomas Bender, Tony Chin.

Front Row (L to R): Eli Nasirpour, Rex Luong, Ricky Chin, Leo Koch, Jayden Ma, Frazer Singleton, Ryan Ding, William Chou.

Track and Field

The 2022 Track and Field season saw a lot of change from previous years. It saw the implementation of new coaches, and a return

to the tried and tested cultural activities that made BGS Track and Field strong all those years ago. This brought a strict new training routine, new experienced coaches, new staffing and a target for BGS athletes to stand up, be proud of their school and compete.

The athletes were led by Captain Alex Thakur, and Vice Captains Toby Logan and Tom MacPherson. The season saw an increase in numbers with more than 200 athletes hitting the track or field, in 2022. Track and Field itself can sometimes be seen as an individual sport, and at times it certainly is. However, it is vital that we have a team, that pushes each

other to new PBs and constantly demands improvement, if we wish to succeed on a GPS result. Out of more than 200 athletes, we had around 130 compete at GPS, plus the support of the other 70 who spurred them on.

The GPS is always one that shows determination and spirit of a team. Pleasingly, we saw athletes breaking PBs in a host of events; chasing down one extra runner; throwing slightly better; jumping further and higher – all contributing to the shared goal of improving.

Starting the day in a strong fashion, our junior team finished their carnival in second place in

what is the first time we have made the podium, since 2018. Outstanding performances throughout the morning allowed for a strong overall team performance. With seven individual winners and a further 29 place getters, all athletes should be proud of their efforts this season.

In the Senior Championships, the Under-16 - Opens age groups showed resilience, pride and fortitude, hitting the GPS competition with rejuvenated enthusiasm and energy to proudly represent their school. They set a shining example for younger athletes coming through the program. A strong performance by our Captain Alex with a second in the 400m hurdles, while placings in our middle-distance events saw our senior group shine bright. The highlight of the evening was undoubtedly the 4 x 400m Open

team who were relegated to second by point four of a second to a strong ACGS outfit.

The Under 13 - Under 15 age groups showed school spirit, skill and a range of talents to gain a number of placings in a host of events. This included javelin, shot put, triple jump, high jump, sprint hurdles, 800m, 1500m and 4x100m relay events. With 10 junior schoolboys competing at regional and state competitions, we have an advantage in the 2024 season as these boys return with increased experience in elite competitions.

The 2022 squad and GPS team improved on their 2021 GPS point tally; however, were unable to improve on their seventh placing. With future training goals, routine and our incredible junior athletes, we have big goals in sight over the next few years.

While the results might not have improved, the squad has something new in its pockets with a renewed sense of enthusiasm for the sport and a belief they can achieve outstanding results. Through hard work and committing to the entire season, we intend to shift the culture of Track and Field. It is a sport that has a rich history at Brisbane Grammar School, which is vital to the improvement of other cocurricular activities that run alongside it.

On behalf of all the boys, a big thank you goes to all staff, coaches, athletes and parents as your support is extremely valued.

10 Years

11 Years

L to R: Hamish Campbell, Tom Rollason, Hugo Liberatore, Ned Clayton, Luka Hedges, Mitchell Spence, Thomas Campbell.

Absent: Gray Dalton, Max Gatehouse, Rory McGlennon, William Dauber, Alexander Donaldson, Digby Harpham, Angus Hoyling, Manny Yang, Ed Mulholland.

12 Years

Back Row (L to R): Hugo Macaulay, Hudson Slater, Yuvraj Dahiya, Aum Bhatt, Max Woolley, Samuel Kelley.

Front Row (L to R): Julian Chin, Joshua Holmes, Benjamin Davies, Oscar Vanderstoep, Frederick Vaughan, William Peters, Daniel Holt.

Absent: Aaron Alphonso, Archie Slatter, Henry Mellick, George Hooper, Hamish Mackay, Charlie Hall, Miles Bennett, Lucius Montague.

13 Years

L to R: Dehan Wickramasekera, Salvatore Leotta, Nick Kelso, Oliver Lynch, Angus McNamara, Archie Boorer, Harrison Corser, Alexander Huang.

Absent: Thomas Brant, Victory Okonkwo, Jake Miller, Alexander Redhead, Tom Clayton, Declan Simpkins.

14 Years

L to R: Chase Pao, Alistair Langdon, Hugo Spencer, Charlie Renshaw, Tom Chan, Elijah Breen, James Bingham, Anson Qiu-Tang.

Absent: Kobi Griffiths, Jackson O’Brien, Alec Fitzgerald, Xander Bourke, Darcy Millsteed, Lincoln Manuel, Thomas Leeuwendal, John Robertson, Maxim Kuznetsov.

15 Years

L to R: Thomas Siemon, Thomas Stevens, Will Gatehouse, Mike Zeng, Toby Harpham, Ed Rimmington, Nic Soo, Hudson Pherous.

Absent: Eli Jones, Hugo Elix, Archie Austin, Tristan Knudsen, Hudson Ridoutt, Thai Bui, Thomas Gulliver.

16 Years

Back Row (L to R): Ethan Love, Alfie Sprott, Tom Macpherson, Tom Jackson, Alex Thakur, Jack Love.

Front Row (L to R): Jack Anderson, Brad Mackintosh, Diyen Ng, Toby Logan, Aaron Le Dan, Duncan Feltham.

Absent: Will Motley, Doug Chapman, Ethan DuPayne, Elton Fitzgerald, Alistair Macintosh.

Volleyball

The 2022 Volleyball season can only be summed up by one word – chaotic. The beginning, middle and end of our season were characterised by question marks and obstacles, but most importantly great successes. From the outset, we sought to reach our goal of BGS being recognised as the leading school for Volleyball in the GPS, through three key pillars: a winning mindset, accountability for our actions and the desire to be the ultimate teammate. These three attributes became to be known as Our Way of doing things.

As a program we performed exceptionally, with BGS placing

second overall and recording a total of 11 podium finishes. The Second VI had a dominant season, remaining undefeated until the last round when they narrowly lost to a strong BBC side, regardless they still finished as Premiers. Meanwhile, the Third VI performed similarly with five strong wins against tough opponents throughout the season. The Fourth VI through their enthusiastic approach and many new players to the program, showed us all that it is never too late to give volleyball a crack.

The competition was tough for the First VI with seemingly every school being considered

a ‘premiership favourite’. After our fortunate first round bye, we started the season off well with an efficient 3-0 victory over an emerging State High team, followed by a promising 3-1 win over rivals Gregory Terrace and a 3-0 win over Ipswich Grammar School. After building such strong momentum, it was challenging to see our Nudgee fixture cancelled. Similarly, while the team’s frustration remained for the following week as a result of the Kerridge Cup’s cancellation, we were instilled with a new sense of determination to show the rest of the competition we were willing to do whatever it takes to win.

That is exactly what we showed in the following two rounds, with a decisive 3-1 win over TGS and a challenging away game against Churchie, which saw us defeat the determined and win in an extended three sets. Coming into Round 9 undefeated we saw ourselves matched up against a formidable BBC team, standing in the way of an undefeated Premiership. With the support of the entire BGS Volleyball program behind us we felt poised to make something truly special happen, yet BBC were too good. After inviting them into the match with a slow start, we struggled to take the upper hand and fell 3-1.

Nevertheless, the true spirit of the 2022 First VI is much better epitomised in our journey to our final year, rather than the year itself. For some of the 2022 First VI players, the journey followed a steady path 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A, 11A and finally First VI. For others, the journey was not so straightforward. Herein lies the story. In 2017, when our current Year 12s were in Year

7, 50 per cent of the current First VI team were selected in the 7A volleyball team, in fact two players were selected in the 7D team, one in the 7C team and one starting First VI player did not make a team in Year 7. In 2018, Year 8, 60 per cent of players were selected in the A team and in 2019 80 per cent made the A team. These numbers affirm the importance of working hard and investing time into things that matter most to you - a lesson which is far more important than volleyball.

Finally, for his constant guidance and mateship, his undying passion to BGS volleyball and the absolute privilege it was to play under him for three unforgettable years, I would like to extend my absolute gratitude for Head Coach Mr Rhys Cox.

It has been an honour to lead this community in 2022, as Captain of Volleyball, alongside Kai. I would like to thank and recognise the ongoing support of Mr Micallef, Mr Clancy and Mr Thorne; the tireless efforts

of all Old Boy and teacher coaches and ISC staff, but most importantly, the outstanding efforts of all the boys throughout the entire season.

Second VI

Back Row (L to R): Mr Max Wagland (Coach), Tom Ricato, Mr Simon Conway (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Hamish Moss, Matthew Pruyn, Alexander Graves, Ben Balthes, Lewis Strachan.

Third VI

Back Row (L to R): Mr Ged Hales (Coach), Ethan Castle, Eoin Mullan, Mr Hamish Goodwin (Coach), Mr Max Wagland (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Harry Baxter, Brian Wang, Damon Cayas, Alden Sommerfeld, Ethan Huang.

Fourth VI

Back Row (L to R): Mr Hamish Goodwin (Coach), Jeremy Spink, James Swart, Tom Jackson, Tom Macpherson.

Front Row (L to R): Jackson Xu, Hess Chen, Alex Gu, Zac Smith, James Eccleston, David Wang.

Absent: Daniel Allison.

11A

Back Row (L to R): Ms Mel Eveleigh (Coach), Mr Vevin Mathew (Coach), Ben Whittome, Taj Saini, Angus Norris, Mr Ewan Thiele (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Weili Cao, John Treacy, Harry Cardell-Ree, Angus Hume, Will Gatehouse, Rudy Dempsey.

11B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Cooper Boardman (Coach), Tom Clarke, Justin Lowe, Fionn Burke, Rowan Tong-Law, Henry Rodda.

Front Row (L to R): Elliot Chiang, David Sun, Luke Murphy, Joshua Stamatellos, Sebastian Bae, Dylan Conway.

11C

Back Row (L to R): Mr Michael Bekker (Coach), William Spalding, Will Hill, Angus Woodrow, James Mees.

Front Row (L to R): Jo Gehrmann, Alistair Macintosh, Ronit Relan, Ben Bryant, Ryan Wang.

Absent: Dylan Park.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Harrison Bartkowski (Coach), Max Romer, Spencer McPherson, Oliver Akhavan, Alec Fitzgerald, Mr Craig Timms (Manager).

Front Row (L to R): Hudson Pherous, Oliver Tu, Tom Gulliver, Rupert Thynne, Xavier O’Sullivan, Adam James.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Joel Kerola (Coach), Toby Harpham, Alexander McConnel, Thomas Poll.

Front Row (L to R): Minh Tran, Lucas Waite, Darcy Carroll-Kirkwood, Jarrah Chien, Ollie Peacock.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Charlie O’Sullivan (Coach), Benjamin Treacy, Archie Wong, Andrew Bade, Tom Chan, Arthur Hames.

Front Row (L to R): Jack Webb, Kit Robertson, Ben Springall, Bowei Chen, Mitchell Khoo, George Collins.

Back Row (L to R): James Middleton, Johnny James, Omero Msalem, Yoshi Becker, Mr Thomas Morgan (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Harvey Gatehouse, Liam Hardie, Samuel Chan, Charlie Prebble, Anson Qiu-Tang, Lachlan Russell.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Ethan Stamatellos (Coach), Ollie Swift, Liam Cook, Luke Saywell, Charlie Prebble, Mr Daniel Celm (Assistant Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Rafferty Chapman, Ryan Lam, Liam Hardie, Ryan Bashirzadeh, Jackson Leong, Daniel Wu.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jim Xiao (Coach), Ocean Shih, Noah Lauder, Will Jackson, Richard Wheeler, Aowen Ding.

Front Row (L to R): Jace Ramalingam, Rylan Pribadi, Bas Stoneley, Allen Liu, Chris Zhu, Sam Margetts, William Marschner.

8A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Hugh Neville (Coach), Lincoln Dalton, Archie Boorer, Hamish Maybury, Mr Harry Wilson (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Alexander Huang, Zachariah Smith, Leroy Zhou, Max Nakasato, Zac Martin, Finn O’Sullivan.

8B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Ben Allison (Coach), Sebastian Labagnara, Vuk Prentis, Martin Grant, Jeric Gao.

Front Row (L to R): Tobias Meehan, Rohan Relan, Sid Rai, Milo Pocock, Julian McKay.

Absent: Matthew Overlack, Magnus Gislason.

8C

Back Row (L to R): Mr Jayden Ho (Coach), Tommy Wang, Yahya Hussain, Oliver Kent.

Front Row (L to R): Jamie Jung, Nicholas Shan, Harvey Kerr, Ihsan Moin, Rohan Goel.

Absent: Arthur Chen, Ashton Parsons-Pope.

8D

Back Row (L to R): Mr Toby Andersen (Coach), Zach Meerten, Cooper Wolski, Ben Foulger, Aaron Alphonso.

Front Row (L to R): Riley Booker, Archer Webb, Ashton Hamra, Buddy Matthews, Angus List, Lewis Hay.

7A

Back Row (L to R): Mr Richard Tu (Coach), Mr Ali Rahmanian (Coach), Alexander Cook, William Greene, Jai Saini, Mr Jason Lin (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): Connor O’Shea, Xavier Grey, Euan Hardie, Alan Hu, Hudson Ho, Tommy Gough.

7B

Back Row (L to R): Mr Michael Powell (Manager), Billy Rogers, Sidney Myers, Derek Feng, Mr Tom Olsen (Coach).

Front Row (L to R): James Keating, Benjamin Smith, Lachlan Lai, Matthew Wu, Lucas Qu.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Ben Ren (Coach), Sam Romer, Leo Ellemor, Luke Zhang.

Front Row (L to R): Daniel Bent, Alexander Jiang, Eli Holley, Zachy Yap. Absent: William Medland, Quinn Goodall.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Ian Fardon (Coach), Mackenzie Kumala, Felix Mole, Elvin Wong.

Front Row (L to R): Ashton Jennings, Joe Feltham, Quinn Goodall, Thor Loch-Wilkinson, Henry Fan.

Aum Bhatt.

Back Row (L to R): Mr Trung Nguyen (Coach), Ethan Chen, Hugo Forbes, Ethan Hilford.

Front Row (L to R): Inness Shannon, Albert Sham, Benjamin Wong, Alexander Wong, Julian Chin.

Avi Roy.

Community

Harlin House Re-Opening

Rhonda Cochrane Boat Naming Ceremony

Friday 18 February 2022

BGSOBA Business Breakfast

Wednesday 27 April 2022

BGS Art Show Gala Evening

Open Day

Saturday

BGS Golf Day

Friday 22 July 2022

BGS Giving Day

Thursday 25 August 2022

Spring Luncheon

Friday 21 October 2022

Year 5

Armenis, Leo

Bansi, Simran

Bell, Fraser

Bellamy, Angus

Bender, Thomas

Bourne, Nicholas

Chang, Martin

Chin Moody, Oliver

Chin, Ricky

Chin, Tony

Chou, William

Chow, Wesley

Clark, Cameron

Coates, Alex

Constantinou, Theo

Creighton, William

Crosisca, William

Dabelstein, Samuel

De Silva, Yevin

Di, William

Ding, Ryan

Earnshaw, Ben

Finn, Ilan

Fletcher, Joshua

French, William

Fripp, Soren

Gray, Digby

Gu, Edward

Ha, Alexander

Han, Anderson

Harris, Finn

Hart, Angus

Hartmann, Emmett

Hilford, Lachlan

Huang, Hayden

Ischenko, Kai

Jarugula, Advaith

Kim, Arthur

Klumpes, George

Koch, Leo

Kovacevic, Dorian

Kumar, Kiran

Lashand, Yuvi

Lau, Teddy

Lee, Aiden

Lee, Jayden

Li, Felix

Li, Frank

Liao, Edward

Liu, Henry

Luk, Tristan

Luong, Rex

Ma, Jason

Ma, Jayden

Macaulay, Harry

Macfarlane, Sonny

Margetts, Josh

McBride Malaquias, Sebastian

McEniery, Patrick

Menck, Ludwig

Murrell, Sam

Nadin, Ollie

Nasirpour, Eli

Ngo, Marlin

Nieh, Angus

Oliver, George

Pearce, Matthew

Perel, Aedan

Poll, Eddie

Purushothaman, Prabhav

Quinlan, Archie

Quinlan, Jack

Ray, Timmy

Rochester, Jack

Rose, Thomas

Sandroan, Ramtino

Sartori, Louis

Schmidt, Zander

Seccombe, Walker

Shen, Aidan

Singleton, Frazer

Skoien, Jimmy

Small, Hugo

Smyth, Dougal

Sneddon, Sebastian

Swan, Marcus

Swayne, Jack

Thompson, Ashton

Vidakovic, Anthony

Voller, Vincent

Walsh, Callum

Walsh, Xavier

Wang, Justin

Westley, Gabriel

Wilkinson, Hugo

Wilson, Ned

Woods, Max

Woodward, Owen

Xiang, Edward

Xu, Jared

Yu, Ryan

Zhong, Danny

Zou, Dimitri

Adib, Ira

Angelini, Will

Ashby-Cliffe, Sebastian

Beltrame, Finn

Bendell, Ben

Bester, Ethan

Bhatt, Shree

Biscaro, Sylvester

Boutcher, Ashley

Boyd, Matthew

Brand, Gus

Bromet, Max

Bryan, Sebastian

Cage, Sebastian

Callinan, Tom

Campbell, Hamish

Campbell, Thomas

Carroll, Lewis

Chambers, John

Cheng, Aaron

Cheng, Michael

Choy, Sky

Chuang, Isaac

Clarkson, Ethan

Coursodon, Alex

Dalton, Gray

Davis, Ben

Donaldson, Lachy

Dong, Ferrell

Dong, Roger

Doyle, Harrison

Ekeocha, Dal

Elphinston, Oliver

Euston, Lachlan

Gannon, Henry

Gao, Mason

Gatehouse, Max

Gorry, Thomas

Graham, Campbell

Grant, Morris

Grigg, Oliver

Ha, Ian

Han, Lucas

Harpham, Digby

Hedges, Luka

Hu, Daniel

Hu, Vincent

Incani, Dominic

Ivanovski, Remi

Jagannathan, Aaryan

Jarugula, Prahas

Jha, Avi

Johansen, Adam

Kimbell, Finn

Kua, Connor

Lago, Joshua

Lalji, Aarav

Lee, Christopher

Levy, Gabriel

Lin, Alston

Lin, Miller

Loch-Wilkinson, Sten

Lu, Damai

Ludlow, Will

Luong, Reuben

Ma, Jamie

Ma, Xavier

Mansoor, Wadaan

Mazzocchi, Isiah

McDonald, Harry

McKay, Chris

McLean, Eddie

Menzies, Clancy

Moore, Ethan

Morris, Elliot

Mountford, Jack

Murphy, Dylan

Ng, Aiden

Niazi, Mohid

Oliver, Flynn

Owen, Tom

Paudyal, Riyaz

Prescott, Lewie

Quinlan, Ben

Redburn, Jordan

Rodins, Luka

Salter, George

Schliebs, Kingsley

Searle, Benjamin

Senaratne, Kiren

Shah, Devam

Smith, Tom

Spiez, Joshua

Sriskandarajah, Noah

Struthers, Kingston

Sun, Bryan

Swan, Hugh

Tan, Lachlan

Thai, Edward

Tian, Lucas

Van Riel, Murphy

Varsani, Dhilan

Wadhwani, Aadya

Wadhwani, Aamay

Wallwork, Francis

Wang, Max

Wang, Nelson

Wilson, Sebastian

Wong, Christopher

Wong, Malakai

Wu, Noah

Xiao, Leon

Yang, Manny

Zellmer, Spencer

Zheng, Andy

Zhou, Horace

Year 7

Aitchison, Tom

Allen, Luke

Amarasena, Alex

Andreatidis, Theodore

Arneil, Acton

Arthur, Joseph

Arumugam, Ziggy

Ashman, Bart

Athanasiou, Andreas

Balasuiriya, Anoop

Barrett, Frederick

Bathgate, Andy

Bennett Hill, Alfie

Bent, Daniel

Bhatt, Aum

Blanch, Nicholas

Boulton, Thomas

Braben, Jack

Brand, Joshua

Brice, Louis

Burke, Henry

Butler, Richie

Caines, Hugh

Carew, Harrison

Carr, William

Carroll, Patrick

Catterick, Oliver

Cavanagh, Andrew

Chang, Jacky

Chen, Alex

Chen, Eric

Chen, Ethan

Cheung, Wayne

Chin Moody, Jasper

Chin, Julian

Chow, Justin

Clarke, Lachlan

Clarke, Roan

Clayton, Ned

Clubb, Henry

Clutterbuck, Will

Collier, Kevin

Cook, Alexander

Cooper, Angus

Creedon, Charles

Creighton, Edward

Dalziel, Mark

Dark, Kris

Dauber, William

Davies, Ben

Donaldson, Alexander

Driessen, Edward

Dritsas, Raffy

Duffield, Henry

Duncan, Liam

Dunne, George

Dunn-Mura, Orlando

Ellemor, Leo

Elliott, Thomas

Ellis, Patrick

Euston, Cooper

Evans, Bryce

Falting, Harry

Fan, Henry

Fang, Joe

Feltham, Joe

Feng, Derek

Findlay, Harry

Fisher, Hamish

Forbes, Hugo

Francis, Sam

Fu, Alex

Fung, Daniel

Gallage, Dinura

Goodall, Quinn

Gordon, Oliver

Gorry, Jack

Gough, Tommy

Grady, Aiden

Greene, Will

Grey, Xavier

Hakim, Mubarak

Han, Lucas

Hardie, Euan

Harris, Maverick

Harris, Oliver

Haug, Hugo

Haylock, Jacob

Heath, Elliot

Hilford, Ethan

Hill, Oliver

Hirst, Sam

Ho, Christian

Ho, Hudson

Hodgson, Callum

Holland, Jay

Holley, Eli

Holmes, Joshua

Holt, Daniel

Holt, Myles

Homer, Samuel

Hoole, Oliver

Hooper, George

Hoyling, Angus

Hu, Alan

Huang, Ethan

Huo, Brayden

Huth, Harry

Ibrahim, Adam

Irving, James

Irwin, Rorey

Jackson, Ben

Jain, Nikkhil

Jennings, Ashton

Jiang, Alexander

Jiang, Sean

Johnston, Tomos

Jones, Damon

Jorss, Lincoln

Joshi, Ojas

Karoly, Nate

Keating, James

Kelley, Samuel

Kim, Euro

Kim, Oscar

Koch, Ethan

Kothari, Aroush

Kumala, Mack

Lai, Lachlan

Langton-Lockton, Tarin

Le, Jordan

Lee, Eugene

Lee, Terry

Li, Eric

Liberatore, Hugo

Lilley, Hamish

Lin, Curtis

Lin, Jayden

Lin, Xavier

Lisec, Zachary

Liu, Lukas

Liu, Owen

Loch-Wilkinson, Thor

Lou, Thomas

Macaulay, Hugo

Mackay, Hamish

Mandhan, Aryan

May, Lachlan

McCarthy, Hudson

McCormack, Liam

McDowell, Jake

McGlennon, Rory

McLeod, Andrew

Meade, Zac

Medland, Will

Menzies, Oscar

Meynink, Declan

Mole, Felix

Montague, Lucius

Moore, William

Mulholland, Edward

Myers, Sidney

Nagl, Edison

Neilson, Oscar

Ngo, Thai

Nguyen, Jaedon

O’Connor, Will

O’Keefe, Phoenix

O’Reilly, Campbell

O’Shea, Connor

Parr, Charlton

Patel, Max

Patel, Samarth

Pearce, Thomas

Pendleton, Charles

Peters, William

Phun, Levi

Prasad, Samuel

Prasad, Yashneel

Purcell, Dominic

Qu, Lucas

Ragland, William

Raine, Marcus

Raju, Rohan

Ramalingam, Josh

Reid, Will

Ricablanca, Andy

Rignall, Lachlan

Robertson-Zeng, Borui

Rockett, Will

Rogers, Billy

Rollason, Tom

Romer, Sam

Roy, Avi

Ryan, Leopold

Saini, Jai

Saini, Praj

Sangster, Philip

Savage, Harry

Saxil, Peyton

Scott, Alexander

Scott, Thomas

Sekhon, Ranveer

Selva, Raul

Selvarajan, Suriya

Seo, Aiden

Sham, Albert

Shannon, Inness

Sharma, Subir

Silverston, Finn

Simpson, Max

Siraparapu, Keshav

Slatter, Archie

Smith, Alexander

Smith, Benjamin

Smith, Fyn

Smith, Oliver

Spence, Mitchell

Srivastava, Samriddh

Stephens, Ed

Stevens, Kobi

Stevenson, Joey

Stonell, Claude

Storey, Nicholas

Straughton, Henry

Stuckey, John

Sutton, Kaiden

Sutton, Miles

Symons, Flynn

Szumowski, Lachy

Tan, Jacky

Tan, Jamie

Tennakoon, Jonathon

Tham, Charles

Tiel, Archer

Travis, Flynn

Treweeke, Hamish

Tsai, Michael

Van der Westhuizen, Thomas

Vanderstoep, Oscar

Vaughan, Frederick

Vo, Cooper

Walsh, Xavier

Wang, Charlie

Wang, Jack

Wang, Michael

Wang, Sisu

Warde, Benjamin

Waterhouse, Christian

Webber, Lachlan

Weibgen, Harry

White, Sebastian

Wijesooriya Mudiyanselage, Mahith

Wong, Alex

Wong, Ben

Wong, Elvin

Wong, Leo

Woodward, Henry

Woolley, Max

Wu, Daoson

Wu, Jeremy

Wu, Matthew

Wynn, Lexer

Yap, Zachy

Yeh, Jayden

Yong Gee, Severin

Yu, Alan

Zaeem, Turhan

Zhang, Luke

Zhao, Nicholas

Zhong, Owen

Year 8

Abeysinghe, Sith

Ackermann, Mitchell

Ahmad, Daanyal

Ahn, Daniel

Ai, Ethan

Alayan, Alexander

Aleckson, Lewis

Aleksiuk, Lachlan

Alphonso, Aaron

Amato, Matthew

Anderson, Ben

Bade, Nicholas

Baker, Lachlan

Ballentine, Spencer

Bansi, Arjan

Battaglia, Leo

Begley, Owen

Bennett, Hugo

Bennett, Miles

Bhandarker, Manav

Bhende, Priyan

Bhutada, Hardik

Blanch, Jacob

Boardman, James

Booker, Riley

Boorer, Archie

Brand, Billy Brown, Jack

Bruderlin, Hunter

Butler, James

Butler, Max

Carruthers, Izac

Carter, Alex

Carter, Luke

Chalmers, George

Chambers, Jonathan

Chan, Justin

Chang, Keeran

Chen, Alex

Chen, Arthur

Chen, Braiden

Chen, Hunter

Chen, Jasper

Chua, Adam

Coates, William

Collins, Isaac

Connelly, Liam

Conomos, Eamman

Coombe, Chris

Corser, Harrison

Cowdroy-Ling, Ryan

Dahiya, Yuvraj

Dai, Daniel

Dalton, Lincoln

Dauber, Oliver

Davies, Henry

de Aboitiz, Harvey

de Jager, Joshua

Deacon, Callum

Deng, Tony

Douglas, Edward

Dunstan, Archie

Dwyer, Sean

Dyhr-Cheung, Kian

Eddington, Lewis

Ellerman, Hamish

Erng, Eugene

Farrelly, Sam

Findlay, William

Fleming, Jack

Forno, Douglas

Foulger, Ben

Gao, Jeric

Gao, Max

Garde, Jasper

Garg, Shubh

Geffen, Zev

Gillman, Elliott

Gislason, Magnus

Goel, Rohan

Gottliebsen, Saxon

Grant, James

Grant, Martin

Grantley, Don

Greig, Sam

Hajkowicz, Tommy

Hall, Charlie

Hamilton, Armand

Hamra, Ashton

Hay, Lewis

Haylock, Tyson

Hinchy, Nick

Holley, Jackson

Homer, Jamie

Horton, Ned

Huang, Alexander

Hussain, Yahya

Hussey, Ethan

Hutton, Ezekiel

Jayawardena, Chanuga

Johnson, Daylin

Jones, Ethan

Jung, Jamie

Karmel, Nelson

Kearney, Robert

Kelso, Nick

Kennedy, Nick

Kent, Oliver

Kenward, Caleb

Kerr, Harvey

Kerr, Lachie

Kerr, Ollie

Kerrigan, Henry

Ko, Kenzo

Kroon, Oscar

Kumar, Bharathi

Labagnara, Sebastian

Lai, Eamon

Lay, Alexander

Lee, Ethan

Lee, Eugene

Lee, George

Lee, Isaac

Lee, Kevin

Lee, Lachlan

Leung, William

Levy, Asher

Li, James

Li, Jerry

Lilley, Ned

Lin, Ian

List, Angus

Liu, Henry

Love, Jack

Luo, Cashy

Luong, Max

Lynch, Marcus

Lynch, Oliver

Ma, Guan-Ao

Malik, Isaac

Martin, Zac

Matthews, Buddy

Maybury, Hamish

McBride, Seth

McCredie, Tom

McDade, William

McKay, Julian

McKinnon, Max

McManus, Chris

McMaster, Lachlan

McNeill, Angus

Meehan, Tobias

Meerten, Zach

Mehta, Rishi

Mellick, Henry

Mellick, Oliver

Mill, Darcy

Miller, Charlie

Miller, Jake

Mohan, Sahil

Moin, Ihsan

Morris, Rohan

Muhammad, Muhriz

Mukherjee, Rig

Munday, Harvey

Nakasato, Max

Nanda, Sachin

Nathan, Matthew

Nelson, Charles

Nguyen, William

Niazi, Moosa

O’Connell, Will

Okonkwo, Victory

Ortega Quintana, Yago

O’Sullivan, Finn

O’Sullivan, Hamish

Overlack, Matthew

Pandey, Anshu

Paranavithana, Sakith

Parker, Jake

Parsons-Pope, Ashton

Pathak, Shivam

Payervand, Arya

Peck, Jackson

Petersen, Matt

Philpot, Ryan

Pincus, Louis

Pocock, Milo

Poynter, Joshua

Prasad, Carter

Prentis, Vuk

Prescott, Cormac

Punj, Shiv

Punj, Shubh

Purcell, Ben

Quinlan, Will

Raaymakers, James

Rai, Sid

Readdy, Tom

Redburn, Eli

Redhead, Alexander

Reid, Isaac

Relan, Rohan

Rhodes, Xavier

Rothwell, Ben

Rousson, Michael

Salih, Zane

Samios, Anthony

Sampson, Alex

Sapsford, Jonathan

Schnitzerling, Jasper

Schulz, Zach

Sebastian, Thomas

Seedat, Yusuf

Shan, Nicholas

Siganto, Jed

Simpkins, Declan

Singh, Mehtaab

Slater, Hudson

Smith, Hugo

Smith, Max

Smith, Zac

Smyth, Hamish

Stay, Joel

Stock, Lukas

Stutz, Thomas

Su, Eric

Subburaj, Yuvan

Sun, Colin

Tan, Jason

Tavakol, Ruben

Thaker, Om

Thapar, Arnav

Tho, Maxey

Thomas, Edward

Thynne, Max

Timblo, Armaan

Townsend, Matty

Tsai, Wesley

Van Nispen, Rhys

Walker, Nick

Walsh, Lachy

Wang, Tommy

Warlow, Alex

Webb, Archer

Wechsel, Magnus

Wickramasekera, Dehan

Wijesekera, Nikhail

Wolski, Cooper

Worthley, James

Wrigley, Zac

Wu, Joel

Xia, Orrey

Xiang, Henry

Xu, Nathan

Xue, Jerry

Yannarakis, Matthew

Yee, Jason

Yoon, Eric

Young, Arthur

Yuan, Jack

Zellmer, Mitchell

Zhang, Charles

Zhang, Daniel

Zhang, Jerry

Zhang, Johan

Zhang, Samuel

Zhong, Oscar

Zhou, Leroy

Year 9

Aitchison, Will

Anastasia, Lachlan

Anderson, Julien

Aponso, Taren

Arthur, Gabriel

Atkins, Rory

Bale, Angus

Ballentine, Henry

Bann, Lennon

Bansi, Sahej

Bashirzadeh, Ryan

Becker, Yoshi

Beckingsale, Matthew

Beetham, Michael

Beikoff, Jax

Beirne, Harry

Bellamy, Lachie

Benjamin, Angus

Bhat, Anish

Bingham, James

Blackwood, Charlie

Boccolacci, Matteo

Bond, Will

Boo, Jeremy

Bottomley, Ashton

Bowden, Luca

Braben, Tom

Brant, Thomas

Breen, Elijah

Brosnan, Taylor

Bryan, Michael

Buck, Benjamin

Bui, Zik

Bunce, Alec

Cardell, Armon

Carew, Angus

Carroll, Nick

Chambers, Thomas

Chan, Isaac

Chan, Samuel

Chapman, Rafferty

Chen, Kevin

Chen, Peter

Chetty, Joryn

Cheyne, Oliver

Chien, Brandon

Chow, Ian

Clark, Angus

Clarke, Angus

Clayton, Tom

Coates, Benjamin

Cook, Angus

Cook, Liam

Cooper, Miles

Coudre, Tom

Crookes, Micael

Dang, Liem

Dark, Niklas

Davies, Archer

Davison, Jack

Deacon, Jed

Dematagoda, Prashan

Ding, Aowen

Do, Andrew

Donaldson, Luke

Dore, Michael

Douglas, Zach

Drew, Rupert

Driessen, Will

Du, Albert

Duncan, Luke

Edwards, Josh

Eghtesadi Araghi, Behzad

Elf, Lachlan

Elliott, Matthew

Enasio, Harper

Evans, Oliver

Fan, Dominic

Finch, Alex

Forbes, Marcus

Fox, Jacob

Fuller, Charlie

Gao, Henry

Garnsey, Nicky

Gatehouse, Harvey

Geritz, Sam

Gong, Aaron

Gordon, Thomas

Goss, Kody

Graham, Oliver

Gresshoff, Lukas

Gunawardena, Praveen

Haque, Zahran

Harasty, Samuel

Hardie, Liam

Harding, Jenson

Harris, Tom

Hasselmann, Antonio

Hazzard, Sebastian

Henderson, Will

Hirst, Maxwell

Howarth, Nicholas

Huang, Joseph

Hudson, Oliver

Huf, Bennett

Hughes, Casey

Hyde, Cooper

Ivanovski, Illian

Jackson, Will

Jacobsen, Luke

Jakupovic, Zac

James, Johnny

Jempson, Will

Jenns, Charley

Jenvey, Flynn

Jiang, Jeffery

Jorss, Nelson

Kangatharan, Vishnu

Karanicolas, Stefanos

Karmel, Xavier

Kelley, Archie

Kemp, Francis

Khan, Jarar

Kim, Alex

Knobloch, Aden

Kumar, Vikram

Kwok, Andre

Kwok, Thierry

Lam, Ryan

Langdon, Alistair

Langdon, Harry

Lauder, Noah

Lee, Max-ze

Leong, Cavel

Leong, Jackson

Leotta, Salvatore

Lewis, Darcy

Li, Benjamin

Li, Shaun

Li, William

Liang, Ethan

Liang, Liam

Lindgren, Milo

Liu, Allen

Liu, Joshua

Lollback, James

Lu, Lucas

Luk, Ethan

Ma, Christian

MacPherson, Daniel

Maher, William

Mann, Finnian

Mansoor, Baryal

Margetts, Sam

Marschner, William

Matthews, Jacob

Mazumder, Rayan

McCormack, Flynn

McNamara, Angus

Middleton, James

Millar, Daniel

Miu, Maxwell

Moore, Flynn

Moore, Sam

Mowbray, Ben

Msalem, Omero

Murphy, Fionn

Nathan, Chris

Neep, Hunter

Neilson, Will

Nguyen, Andy

Ong, Sam

Pao, Chase

Paschkewitz, Dylan

Pearse, Harrison

Pendleton, William

Pocock, Oscar

Porfyriou, Luca

Prebble, Charlie

Pribadi, Rylan

Prowse, Alexander

Qiu-Tang, Anson

Quagliotto, Connor

Quinell, Ryan

Quirk, Mac

Raine, Jacob

Ramalingam, Jace

Reck, Harrison

Redmond, Ben

Reinke, James

Richardson, Isaac

Riches, Toby

Roberts, Brandon

Rombola, Ferdi

Russell, Lachlan

Rutter, Sam

Salisbury, Fraser

Salman, Saad

Sasikaran, Nirmidan

Saywell, Luke

Scholes, Hayden

Scott, Dom

Selva, Jai

Sharry, Luke

Shen, Alvin

Shepherd, Luke

Shih, Ocean

Siddique, Isma’il

Simonetta, Joseph

Slatter, Henry

Small, Oscar

Smith, Colby

Sokoll, Joshua

Spence, Alex

Spencer, Curtis

Spencer, Hugo

Stephens, James

Stewart, Hamish

Stoneley, Bas

Swan, George

Swane, Felix

Swift, Ollie

Taylor, Noah

Telford, Luke

Tran, Justin

Turra, Max

van Brunschot, Vincent

Van der Westhuizen, Jack

Varsani, Kaushal

Vellacott, John-Matthew

Wacker, George

Wackwitz, Arki

Wallis, Jeremy

Wang, Alvin

Wang, Ricky

Warren, James

Waterhouse, Luca

Watts, Angus

Weatherstone, Oscar

Wei, William

Wheeler, Richard

White, Ollie

Wijesinghe, Hans

Willersdorf, Cormack

Woodford, Winston

Woodruff, Harry

Woollaston, Scott

Wright, Ollie

Wu, Daniel

Xin, Lucas

Xu, Blaire

Xue, Harry

Yantsch, James

Young, Matthew

Yuen, Will

Zand, Ryan

Zellmer, Logan

Zhang, Bokai

Zhang, Bowen

Zhang, Oscar

Zhou, Dennis

Zhu, Chris

Year 10

Abiad, Omar

Agnew, Campbell

Akhavan, Oliver

Ali, Kayzer

Andrews, Hugh

Asomah, Eric

Austin, Archie

Babnik, Luka

Bade, Andrew

Bakshi, Aryan

Balthes, Max

Barlow, Rohan

Baxter, Keaton

Bell, Lucas

Bellamy, Mitchell

Bemrose, Alec

Bigby, Kyan

Black, Lloyd

Bolam, Sam

Bollard, Oscar

Bourke, Xander

Bracher, Andrew

Brand, Harvey

Brooks, Lebron

Brough, James

Brucklacher, Magnus

Bryan, Lucas

Buddee, Nathan

Bui, Thai

Burcham, Julian

Callaghan, Ted

Cancio-Newton, Austin

Carroll-Kirkwood, Darcy

Carter, Nic

Chamon Kovalenko, Pablo

Chan, Theo

Chan, Tom

Chappell, Samuel

Chen, Bowei

Cheng, Brendan

Chien, Jarrah

Choi, Jacob

Chopra, Rohan

Chua, Isaac

Chudleigh, Drew

Chung, Ian

Cikaluru, Harsha

Cochrane, Robert

Collins, George

Condon, Nick

Cook, Grayson

Cooke, Hamish

Cooper, Ed

Cray, Oliver

Curley, Jim

de Zubicaray, Lucas

Deane, Fox

Doan, Isaac

Donald, Jordan

Donald, Tom

Donaldson, Jack

Dwyer, Otto

Edwards, Benji

Edwards, Jake

Elix, Hugo

Ellerman, Angus

Elliott, Lachie

Emery, Mitch

Ewart, William

Fedorov, Sam

Fitzgerald, Alec

Fitzpatrick, Connor

Flaskas, Julius

Forrest, Dominic

Furnell, Nash

Gao, Morgan

Gianfelici, Adriano

Gislason, Finnur

Gottliebsen, Jasper

Gracen, Andrew

Griffin, Harvey

Griffiths, Kobi

Gulliver, Tom

Guyatt, Jack

Hains, Samuel

Hames, Arthur

Hammer, George