Tohu Teina mo nga Tikanga / Junior Values Badges

By Nic Sullivan and Elaine Kelly | Posted: Wednesday April 9, 2025

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners” Laurence Sterne, Novelist

In junior assembly this week the winners of the first round of Junior Values Badges were announced for Respect, our value of the term. These badges are part of the Junior Value Badges reward initiative which is in its fourth year. They are a Rector’s Award. 

The badges are designed to help boys focus on the value of the term and live our school values everyday. We reward boys who collect positive postcards, house points and a good grade point average in their effort grades. Since this has nothing to do with academics, everyone has a chance to succeed.

The value for Term 1 was respect and a total of 223 boys earned themselves a badge. This represents 63% of the junior school, the highest amount ever since the badges were introduced. Year 9 collected 46% of the badges but Year 10 outdid them with 54%. There were a few standout performances that are worthy of a special mention. 

The highest GPA for effort in Year 10 was William Bolter with an impressive 4.86 (out of 5). In terms of the highest number of positive postcards, William had to share the glory with Arrsalan Nayle, with both boys receiving three postcards. The highest number of house points overall went to Alex Ma with fourteen.

Although Year 9 didn’t beat Year 10 overall as far as the number of badges is concerned, it could be said that the Year 9 cohort is just warming up! In terms of performances at the top end, they outperformed Year 10 in two out of three categories, so they are definitely nipping at the Year 10 heels!

The highest GPA went to An Xin Chang with 4.57. Again, two boys shared the highest number of postcards but this time with four postcards each. Well done to Tamati Matthews and Junior Smith. However, the absolute “Dunner Stunner” of a performance went to Jihoo Moon with a total of 25 House Points!

As ever, the House Competition is never far from the boys sights and the results are as follows:

1st Place - McIndoe House 61

2nd Place - Park House 58

3rd Place - Aspinall House 54

4th Place - Saxton House 51 

Every year we have students and parents who wonder why they did not receive a badge but did get a postcard. The key thing that we are looking for is that a boy’s effort grade is around 3.8 or more. This shows us that in every class, boys are meeting an acceptable standard of effort and behaviour and that in some classes they are excelling this expectation. So, if your son didn’t receive a badge but got a postcard, this is the perfect opportunity to chat with him about how he could improve his effort grade. 

Boys must meet these criteria to gain a badge. The criteria for gaining a badge are as follows:

●        a positive postcard home OR 4 House points

●        AND a grade point average in effort of 3.8 or above

The value for Term 2 is Courage and we hope your son will embrace this by perhaps trying out a new sport or club, making a concerted effort in class to be brave and put his hand up or take some risks in his learning. It could mean even having the courage to stand up for others and speak out when he sees something wrong. 

We invite junior boys to show us what they are courageous enough to do in Term 2!

Year 9

Tolise Alesana, Jay-R Ampoloquio, Dimuthu Aruma Jayaweera Patabendige, Michael Beins, Leo Blair, Levi Brewer, Noah Bryson, Ryley Buchan, Will Calvert, Will Carter, Jack Champion, An Xin Chang, Aj Clado, Joss Clarke, Charlie Clements, Dexter Corrigall, Levi Crump, Logan Cumming, Kristin Day-Clarke, Will Deerness, Wilson Dey, George Dowling, Lochie Downing, Zac Dunn, Fletch Ewing, Kohen Fallows, Sacha Foster, Max Fraser, Nash Gilmour, James Glover, Nixon Grant, Liam Grey, Tyler Hampson, Johnny Haraki, Connor Harris, Leighton Harris-Mears, Sam Harvey, Will Henderson, Emad Hezam, Jaxson Hill, Jedd Hill, Lennix Hill, Zavier Homer, Rhys Horan, Connor Horne, Bryn Hyslop, Bryson Jackson, Flynn Jenkinson, Felix Jones, Luca Jury, Saharat Khongkaew, Bryn Kilpatrick, Asher Knox, Mark  Lampad, Jack Lidgett, Max Littlejohn, Frank Liu, Aidan Liugalua, Fergus Lloyd, George Mafi, Terrence Makiiti, Peter Mataivou, Tamati Matthews, Oliver McCall, Nathan McCallaghan, Thomas McEwan, Archie McNab, Aidan Millier, Mounga Moataane, Jihoo Moon, Lourd Morillo, Fred Mulder, Dinuja Namal Gomuwage, Tom Nichol, George Nichol, Lucas Nicholson Cepero, Ollie Nicolaou, Jenson Oldridge, Jack Orlovich, Ansley Ghel Paran, Van Parry, Evan Pickup, Bennett Potter, Finn Pulley, Amitai Rosman, Declan Roulston, Logan Sanders, Joseph Scanelli, Max Simpson, Junior Smith, Kobi Smith, Isaac Stewart, Isaac Stocker, Matt Storer, Vili T-Pole, Alex Thurlow, Tanu Tioti, Konrad Todd, Siosefo Tupou, Elijah Webber, Noah Wilson, Carlyn Wilson, Hunter Winmill and Freeman Wood

Year 10

Bilal Ahmad, Charlie Anderson, Kalo Ashton, Max Barker, Reicher Barnes, Kalyan Bhusal, Leo Bogachev, William Bolter, Niko Booth, Harry Boyle, Finn Breen, William Bryson, Tirian Callander, Liam Carter, Kane Cartwright, Noah Casbolt, Jia-Yang Chen, Will Chittock, Cole Churchman, Jayden Clarkson, Eli Des Fountain, Liam Drummond, Zac Elder, Lucca Ellison, Yoda Fang, Terence Farella, Jamie Funnell, Nathan Gardner, Declan Gemmell, Lachlan Gill, Sam Glover, Ryder Greig, Josh Grindlay, Duncan Guest, Rowan Hamilton, Ethan Hand, Kobe Hardie-Radcliffe, Mikey Hart, Ben Haughey, Sam Hellyer, Thomas Hill, Jacob Holtshousen, Sammie Jamieson, Lucas Jensen, Theo Johnston, Maximilian Kaiser, Carter Kennedy, Josh Keogh, Kan Keskool, Azlan Khan, Theo Kindiak, Zander King, Hugo Kirk, Hunter Knox, Mount Korban, Aneniueta Lale Sululoto, Tyler Lam, Harry Lee, Finlay Lloyd, Levi Lu, Johnnie Lucas, Alex Ma, Asher Maaka, Jaxion Mackay, Niututoatasi Malae, Viliamu Malae, Harry Matheson, Flynn McCall, Fletch McCall, Callum McSkimming, Mateo Mirosa, Louie Moffatt, George Murray, Pahm Nanthakhetwong, Arrsalan Nayle, Myles Nicol, Al Nicolson, Blaine O'Brien, Thomas O'Neill, Eli Olsen, Guy Orchiston, Dominik Ory, Juan-Pierre Otto, Silas Pajarillo, Bede Perkins, James Phipps-Green, Liam Phipps-Green, Oliver Porter, Callan Power, Aditha Ranawaka, Archie Rhodes, Lewis Richards, Lucas Richardson, Victor Rivollet, Noah Robertson, Smith Rohan, Scott Samuel, Blake Schaaf, Stuart Scott, Connor Sinclair, Matt Sinnott, Cruz Soper, Archer Stuart, Carlin Summerfield, Digby Sutton, Charlie Swan, Hunter Swete, Hamza Taha, Mustafa Taha, Yuto Tanaka, Callum Thompson, Isaac Tinning, Jack Toomer, Liam van Waard, Nathaniel Vickers, Hunter Wallace, Baine Wan, Lucas Wharepapa, Ethan Wright, Kyle Zhang and Frank Zhang.

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