Katie Allen (Higgins, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Each year, the Higgins Medal award gets bigger and better and continues to showcase the amazing, talented and diverse group of students attending our local schools. It recognises the contributions they make to school community, academic excellence and embodying their school values. Our guest speaker for this year's ceremony was none other than year 4 Melbourne Girls Grammar student Grace Halifax. She has an unbridled passion for maths and coding and a desire to educate other children in her community. Thanks to Grace for her inspiring speech. The future is bright, with Grace, and girls like her, rolling up her sleeves at the tender age of eight years to help her community.

I'd like to again congratulate this year's recipients of the medal: Lachlan Schmidt and Misha Saito from Armadale Primary School; Angelika Lavados of Camberwell South Primary School; Mia O'Neill and Alexander Starkins of Caulfield Grammar School's Malvern campus; James McClisky and Evangelos Fabiatos of De La Salle College; George Thomas and Gillian Claringbould of Geelong Grammar School Toorak campus; Diya Patel and Siddhant Shirgaonkar of Glen Huntly Primary School; Sienna Vrieze and Ashton Sellers of Glen Iris Primary School; Skye Nguyen and Jacob Kent from Hughesdale Primary School; Jemima Carne and Zara Rajah of Korowa Anglican Girls School; Mackenzie Hughes of Lauriston Girls School; Ines Russell and Huon Forward of Malvern Central School; Peter Sfyridis and Lucy Freeman from Malvern Primary School; Hannah Williams and Amy Russo from Malvern Valley Primary School; Lily Wertheimer and Clementine Evans from Melbourne Girls Grammar; Bimal Seneviratne and Monako Bernabe from Murrumbeena Primary School; Ayden George Gidu and Toni Stathopoulos from Oakleigh Grammar; Isabella Ronchi and Hallie Dimitriadis from Sacre Coeur; Isabella Young and Maria Elizabeth Ebi from Sacred Heart Girls School; Abigail Phillips and James Thompson from Solway Primary School; Fleur Angenent and Lucia Tabbagh from Saint Catherine's School; Grace Ogilvy and Xavier Chippindall from Saint Cecilia's Primary School; Heath Ryan and Ingrid Piva from St Joseph's Primary School; Hudson Lefoe from Saint Kevin's College; Alexander Goldsworthy and Alessia Rossello from St Mary's Primary School; Eleni Mingas and Grace Slykerman of St Michael's Parish School; Gianluca Gioffre and Talia Gummersall from St Patrick's School; Kanisha Raju from St Roch's School; Jack Timms from the Currajong School; Teagan Casselson from the King David School; and, finally, Audrey Mitchell and Harvey Coleman from Toorak Primary School. Well done again to you all. You've now joined the growing Higgins Medal alumni, and I join your school, teachers, peers and family in reiterating how proud I am of each of you. The future is bright. I look forward to welcoming you to future Higgins alumni events.