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A NATIONAL exclusive on Australia’s biggest unsolved civil aviation disaster earned Stroud Public School the top primary spot in this year’s Newcastle Herald school newspaper competition awards.
The ceremony was held on Tuesday at Hunter Stadium, and recognised the achievements of the individual students and teams that took part in this year’s competition, sponsored by the Newcastle Permanent Building Society.
Over 350 students, teachers, parents and school representatives turned out to celebrate the efforts of over 90 schools across the Hunter, Lake Macquarie and Central Coast who produced their own two-page newspaper which appeared within the pages of the Newcastle Herald throughout the year.
Stroud Public School won best overall primary entry, which included an exclusive interview with the son of the pilot who was flying a plane which crashed in the Barrington Tops in 1981 and has never been found.
The best overall secondary paper was won by St Paul’s High School Booragul.
Other winners included Jessica Olsen from Dungog Primary School for best primary young writer of the year and Daniel Caban from Hunter Sports High School in the secondary category.
Newcastle Permanent CEO Terry Millet thanked the students for ‘‘embracing the competition,’’ by ‘‘harnessing [their] enthusiasm and for hard work and creativity’’, and emphasised the importance of effective communication skills.
Special Achievement
The Kotara School
Maitland Grossmann High School Support Unit
Best Advertisement - Primary
Highly Commended
Casey Sherwin - Dungog Public School
Anwen Scanlan - Maitland Public School
Winner
Sophia Zammit - Kurri Kurri Public School
Best Advertisement - Secondary
Highly Commended
Tayla-Rose Cross - St Paul’s High School Booragul
Rachael Tillemans - Scone High School
Winner
Eloise Dagg - Hunter Sports High School
Best Cartoon - Primary
Highly Commended
Ty Riley - St Joseph’s Primary School Merriwa
Ben Anderson - Anna Bay Public School
Grace van den Boogaard - Rathmines Public School
Winner
Alex Parsons - Newcastle East Public School
Best Cartoon - Secondary
Highly Commended
Noah Jeffreys - Kurri Kurri High School
Isis Leaver - Callaghan College Wallsend Campus
Jessica Lindstedt - San Clemente
Winner
Carolyn Burns - Toronto High School
Best Photography - Primary
Highly Commended
James Snitch - Newcastle East Public
Ryan Liddell, Lochlan Vardy, Liam Martin, Sophie Sorensen, Ryley Kindler - Thornton Public School
Elizabeth Hart - Belair Public School
Winner
Mitchell Davoren - St James Primary Kotara South
Best Photography - Secondary
Highly Commended
Taylah Murrell - Hunter School of the Performing Arts
Emily Caldwell - Rutherford Technology High
Lachlan Guy - All Saints College, St Joseph’s Campus
Winner
Emily Mors - Hunter Sports High School
Best Editorial - Primary
Highly Commended
Lilly Grant and Isabel Marxsen - Eleebana Public School
Clancy Moore and Eliza Peebles - St Joseph’s Primary School Merriwa
Isabella Bradshaw-West - Dungog Public School
Winner
Nicholas Bendeich - Wallsend Public School
Best Editorial - Secondary
Highly Commended
Daniel Caban, Hunter Sports High
Madison Inkster, St Paul’s High Booragul
Rohan Pearson, Grace Reay, Zane Andrews and Angus Hutchinson - Kurri Kurri High School
Winner
Lara Harriman - Gosford High School
Best News Story - Primary
Highly Commended
Ella Baartz - Merewether Heights Public School
Aspen Blomfield, Adam Chesher, Ben Galvin, Nick Newstead and Liam O'Brien - Nulkaba Public School
Elizabeth Hart, Lauren Isaac, Saskia Ferguson and Charlotte McKenna - Belair Public School
Winner
Alyssa Mudryk, Amity Carter, Thomas Dew, Emma Field, Amy Klein, Sara Mudryk and Peter Raine - Stroud Public School
Best News Story - Secondary
Highly Commended
Rhiannon Mobbs-Keegan - Lisarow High School
Natasha Hayes - Toronto High School
Winner
Leah Wright - Merriwa Central School
Best News Video
Thornton Public School
The Junction Public School
Best Young Writer - Primary
Highly Commended
Eloise Purdon - St Paul’s Primary School Rutherford
Emma Hanssen - Woodberry Public School
Winner
Jessica Olsen - Dungog Public School
Best Young Writer - Secondary
Highly Commended
Madison Inkster - St Paul’s High School Booragul
Lara Harriman - Gosford High School
Winner
Daniel Caban - Hunter Sports High School
Best Overall Entry - Primary
Highly Commended
St Joseph’s Primary School Merriwa
New Lambton Public School
Wallsend Public School
Newcastle East Public School
Winner
Stroud Public School
Best Overall Entry - Secondary
Highly Commended
All Saints College, St Joseph’s Campus
Hunter Sports High School
Winner
St Paul’s High School Booragul
