30 November 2021
The School’s valedictory celebrations culminated in our 174th Speech Day Ceremony held on Friday 22 October in Memorial Hall. Old scholar and Chief Executive Officer of the AFL, Gillon McLachlan (W&A 1990) joined us virtually to deliver an inspiring Speech Day Address and SPOC Chairman, Oliver Sheahan (HWK 2007) officially welcomed the Class of 2021 as old scholars with the presentation of an old scholar tie.
The Ceremony provides the opportunity to recognise and celebrate the achievements of each graduating student. Additionally we acknowledge the following prize recipients:
| PRIZE | STUDENT |
| A Grenfell Price Prize for Geography | Joshua Watson |
| AB (Sailor) Webb Prize for Material Solutions (Senior) | Archie Jackson |
| Andrew Wells Legal Prize for Legal Studies | Alexander Rouss |
| Australian Defence Force Future Innovators Award | Sachin Ravindran |
| Australian Defence Force Long Tan Leadership and Teamwork Award | Henry Hawker |
| Bruce Coulter Medal for Outstanding Leadership | Sam Jackson |
| Bruce Richards Memorial Prize for Service | Jeremy Beale |
| Charles Gillham Memorial Prize for Physics (IB) | Eric You |
| Charles Gillham Memorial Prize for Physics (SACE) | Sachin Ravindran |
| Chris McGovern Memorial Prize for History | Jonathan Davies |
| DE Genders Prize for English (IB) | Charles Lewis |
| Detlef Kirsten Memorial IB Prize for Academic Excellence | Eric You |
| DJ Lee Prize for Accounting | Cooper McDonald |
| Dr James Robert William Rehn Music Medal | Eton Wiliams |
| EB Hughes Prize for Art | Archie Jackson |
| FJ & HV Thwaites Memorial Prize for Music | Jules Sheedy |
| George Melrose Prize for Drama | Wilbur Glaetzer |
| HH Marten Prize for History (IB) | Charles Lewis |
| HL Cotton Prize for Economics | Alexander Rouss |
| J Carlile McDonnell Prize for English | William Nitschke |
| JAT Mortlock Prize for English Literary Studies | Aidan Hughes |
| JS Thomson Prize for Chemistry (IB) | Xian Huang |
| LAG Symons Prize for Mathematics (IB) | Xian Huang |
| Leonard & Douglas Grummet Prize for Service | Yash Patil |
| M & M Lebbon Prize for Business and Enterprise | Alistair Sarah |
| MR Freney Prize for Chemistry | Anthony Pham |
| Old Collegians Ancient Studies Prize | Orson Stawiarski |
| Old Collegians Art Design Prize | Nicholas Burr |
| Old Collegians Biology Prize (IB) | William Subramaniam |
| Old Collegians Business Management Prize (IB) | Noah Pitkin |
| Old Collegians Chinese B Prize (IB) | Zihao Wu |
| Old Collegians Digital Technologies Prize | Austin Hushen |
| Old Collegians Economics Prize (IB) | Eric You |
| Old Collegians English as an Additional Language Prize (SACE) | Wei Hang Khoo |
| Old Collegians English B Prize (IB) | Xian Huang |
| Old Collegians French B Prize (IB) | William Subramaniam |
| Old Collegians General Mathematics Prize | Nivranshu Irkulla |
| Old Collegians German B Prize (IB) | Eric You |
| Old Collegians Health and Wellbeing Prize | Thomas Albertini |
| Old Collegians Legal Studies Prize | Alec Padfield |
| Old Collegians Mathematical Methods Prize | Anthony Pham |
| Old Collegians Physical Education Prize | Stefan Kudra |
| Old Collegians Spanish ab initio (IB) | Charles Lewis |
| PG Osborn Prize for the Performing Arts | Lianos Karapetis |
| Phil Grummet Drama Performance Prize | Alexander Karytinos |
| College Prize for Chemistry | Thomas Hosking |
| RR Stuckey Prize for Mathematics (IB) | Zihao Wu |
| RR Stuckey Prize for Mathematics (SACE) | Sachin Ravindran |
| Toc H Community Service Award | Xian Huang |
| WH Irwin Prize for History | Jonathan Davies |
| WH Selway Prize for Biology | Sebastian Lockie |