At the conclusion of each year, students have the opportunity to receive certain awards, based on their efforts and achievements throughout the year.
Academic excellence awards
- Available to students in years 1-6
- Based on A-E achievement results
- To be considered, students must receive either an A or B result in each of these Australian Curriculum subjects; Mathematics and English
Sporting awards
- For 10, 11 and 12* year old students. In 2021, students born in 2011, 2010 and 2009 are eligible to receive a Sporting Award, due to having opportunities to represent not only their house and school**, but also Central Downs, Southern Downs, Darling Downs etc.
- Maximum one student per age group (unless more than one student accumulates the most points). In the event of a tie, each student will be awarded with the sporting award for that age group.
- Based on a point scoring system; students are awarded points as they represent their house, the school**, Central Downs, Southern Downs, Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia.
* Ages for school sporting events are based on year born- e.g. a student born in 2010 will turn 11 in 2021, and is therefore considered to be an 11-year-old for the entire year for sporting purposes.
** There is a requirement that students represent their house at school sporting events, including athletics, swimming and cross county and the triathlon event in order to be eligible for a Sporting Award.
All-rounder award
- Judged by staff
- One student only from across the entire school
- Based on academic, sporting, cultural, citizenship, ambassadorial, leadership, behaviour and effort of the student
Academic Progress awards
- The progress awards are awarded to students who have demonstrated growth over the past 6 or 12 months
- The data used to determine growth includes
- A-E data in the subjects of Mathematics, English and Science
- Naplan growth from years 3-5 (for year 5 students) and/or
- Reading growth, using either PM or Informal prose benchmark results
- To receive a progress award, students need to 'grow' more than 12 months in a 12- month period, or achieve a result greater than the previous result in the same subject