News
Gymnastics
Congratulations to Grace Chan-McCarthy(7HW, pictured) who won the Junior Champs Cup for Women's Artistic Gymnastics (WAG level 5) during the first week of the school holidays.
Congratulations to Hannah Bilderbeck (7HW). Hannah was part of the team (Dream Zone) that came 4th at the recent Cheerleading Nationals in Auckland.
Science Challenge
Congratulations to Shruti Iyer, Tamara Jenkin and Michelle Too who won first prize in the investigation design section of the Wellington Region Year 10 Science Challenge. The competition was held on Wednesday June 9th at Victoria University's College of Education. The girls competed against nearly 50 teams representing schools from all over the region. Their winning investigation involved designing a method to test the effect of a number of factors on the strength of paper mache.
Speech and Drama
Alex Hamer and Cassandra Tse (both Year 13) have been selected to go to National Shakespeare Schools Production week in the September holidays. From there they have the opportunity along with the forty others selected from around New Zealand to win selection for the twenty-two strong young Shakespeare company that will travel to the Globe Theatre in 2011. Congratulations also to Maxine Glogau, Year 12 and Eleanor Bell, Year 11 for achieving Honours Plus for their talk and story telling module. Honours plus is a new nationwide achievement level that was introduced last year for exceptional work. One five awards were made nationwide.
Underwater Hockey
Congratulations to the senior team who placed 3rd at the Central Zone tournament over the weekend and who will now go to nationals in Rotorua in September. Senior QMC girls MVP was Zoe Webster and Junior girls MVP was Lotte Koning. In addition, seven QMC players were named in the under 18 Wellington squad, Zoe Webster, Abby Vorstermans, Kristen Stewart, Freya Slessor, Millie Carr, Rebecca Daley and Elizabeth Young. 
Gymnastics
Congratulations to Lydia Hingston (pictured) who has been selected as a member of the New Zealand Levels team to compete in the Level 9 competition in Perth, at the Australian Gymnastic Nationals in July.
Scholarship Award
CongratulatioCongratulations to the senior Underwater Hockey team who placed 3rd at the Central Zone tournament over the weekend and who will now go to nationals in Rotorua in September. Senior QMC girls MVP was Zoe Webster and Junior girls MVP was Lotte Koning.ns to Laura Campbell who has been awarded an Excellence Certificate at Victoria University for 2011
Diving
Madeleine Knowles competed in a national dive competition held in Wellington this Sunday. She placed 2nd in her age category so is now placed 2nd in NZ on the 1 metre board.
Cross Country
Congratulations to the following girls who placed in the top 20 in their age group in the Western Zone Cross-country race at
Karori on May 27th
Placings are in brackets.
Year 4: Sinduri Iyengar (14) Molly Newton-Smith (18)
Year 6: Estelle Macadre (7) , Madison O'Connnor (14)
Year 7: Matisse Uluilelata (9) Shweta Iyer ( 12), Phoebe van Boheeman (13)
Year 8: Holly McMahon (8) Charlotte van Boheeman (10), Sophie Stewart (12), Amy Galvin (19)
Estelle, Matisse, Holly & Charlotte will now represent the zone at the Interzone Cross-Country on Tuesday June 15th.
Wellington regional Japanese speech contest (May 14)
A total of 8 schools from Wellington area and 40 participants took part. Each schools could participate with a maximum of 5 students.
Year 11 category: Tina Chen-Xu and Emily Lee and Both got 3rd= place.
Year 12 Category : Isla Findlay got 1st place.
Year 13 Category : Catherine Gavigan- Binnie got 1st Place and Cassandra Tse got 2nd.
Underwater Hockey
Nicole Privett and Zoe Webster were members of the Under 18 NZ tournament A team which won the women's competition. Nicole was named Vice Captain of the A team and is a member of NZ Elite Women's Squad.
Water Polo
Rosa Hanna and Charlotte Logan have been selected for the NZ Junior Women's Squad and will attend the Global Championships in Los Alomintos in July 2010. The Senior A team competed in the North Island Championships and were placed 4th overall.
Swimming
Victoria Smaill swam in the 5 freestyle events for 14 yr old girls (50m, 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m) and in the freestyle relays for the Girls 15 and Under Wellington Region and Capital Swim Club. Hannah Andrews swam 5 individual events for 13 year old girls (50m, 100m and 200m Butterfly and 50m and 200m freestyle). Shaving seconds off her previous times she swam personal bests in all her races, reaching the finals in the 50m, 100m and 200m fly races, winning the bronze medal in the 50m fly with a time of 30.68secs. In both the 50m and 200m free she improved her overall ranking to finish in the top 20. Swimming butterfly for the Wellington relay team, the girls again swam personal bests to come 6th in the final. Alexandria Clareburt won national titles for the 15yr old girls 400m Individual Medley and 200m Butterfly.
North Island Rowing Champions
Meg Taylor-Smith and Ruby Tew won Gold and are the New Zealand Secondary Schools North Island Champions in the Girls Under 16 2x (double).
Canoeing
Hannah Altman competed in the CRNZ Canoe Sprint Championships this term and was placed 3rd in the U17 Women division.
Triathlon
At the National Series triathlon in Wellington, girls from Year 7 entered a team in the National Year 7 and 8 champs coming fourth overall and second of all the girls' teams.
Speech Award
Sara Bishop has been awarded the 2009 Speech New Zealand Melda Townsley Award.
Music
Congratulations to the following students who have been selected this year as participants in the Young Musicians Programme run by The New Zealand School of Music.
Simone Chivers: composition
Shweta Iyer: chamber music
Rebecca Jones Long: chamber music
Jessica Palairet: jazz instrumental
Nicole Petrove: classical voice
Kerry Salter: jazz voice
Georgie Scott: jazz voice
Rima Shenoy: classical voice
Abby Vorstermans: classical voice
Marion Wilson: classical voice