Convent Schools, Wellington South

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)

Convent Schools, Wellington South

(From our own correspondent.) December 16. The annual entertainment given by the pupils of the Convent Schools, Wellington South, prior to their breaking up for the Christmas vacations, was held in the Victoria Hall on Tnesday and Wednesday evenings, and reflected much credit on the performers and on the good Sisters, who have spared no trouble in training them. On Wednesday evening the annual prize distribution took place. The Rev. Father O'Shea, &.s£., presided. . The following is the list : — ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL. Christian doctrine (equal in merit), Valentine Barton and "Horace Wimsett. Standard VI. — Highest marks, boys Rohan M'Cardell, girls Mary Delaney ; best attendance, boys Valentine Barton, girls Mary Drury ; good conduct, Cecelia O'Connor; general proiiciency, Frances Delaney ; arithmetic, Mary Delaney ; composition, Nellie M'Kelliget; needlework, Winifred Patterson. Standard V. — Highest marks, boys Percy Stitt, girls Nora O'Neill; general proficiency, Patrick Bourke; best attendance, "boys Frank M'Donald, girls Nora Drury and Fanny Hickey. Standard IV. — Highest marks, boys Fergus O'Sullivan, girls Kathleen Huddy ; general proficiency, Joseph Ross ; Christian .doctrine, Bessie Delaney; drawing, boys James M'Erlean, girls Buby Lee and Ruby Peters ; Nature-study, William Rouse. Standard 111. — Highest marks, boys Raymond Kirk, girls "Ellen Dunne; proficiency, Vera Beveridge; Christian doctrine, .Jeanne Xruse ; regular attendance, William North. Standard II. — General proficiency, boys Joseph O'Neill, girls Mary Rigg. Standard I. — Regular attendance, Eric Schrader ; general Ferdinand Wimsett ; spelling, Nellio Mears ; writing and drawing, Agens Ellis; reading, May Keogh ; -arithmetic, Mary Cullanan. Singing. — Valentine Barton 1, Joseph Ross 2. ST. JOSEPH'S HIGH SCHOOL. Good conduct (silver medal), May Ryan; Christian doctrine ,-^silver medal), Annie Flanagan ; dux (gold watch), Moya •O'Sullivan; class singing (silver medal), Grace Ridler ; pianoforte -playing (gold medal), Mabel Bourke ; intermediate grade, first jprize, Mabel Fownes ; higher division, improvement in singing and __ music, Kate Jameson ; lower division (equal in merit), -Clarice Nash and Annie Hickey ; improvement, Agnes Fitzgibbon and Teresa Flanagan ; elementary division, Winny Batcheler 1, Fanny Hickey 2 ; popularity, Annie Flanagan ; -wood-carving, first division, Arthur Ridler ; wood-carving, second -division, Eileen Carrigan 1, Annie Tonner 2. Class I. — Composition, Molly Molloy ; arithmetic, Eileen -CaTrigan 1, Kate Jameson 2 ; English grammar, Annie Flanagan ; "Xiatin, Elizabeth Kruse ; algebra, Eileen Carrigan 1, Grace Kidler 2; drawing, Nellie Beagley; reading, Myrtle Leydin; •spelling, Molly Molloy ; penmanship, Nellie Beaoley. Class II. — Christian doctrine, Kathleen Sullivan ; English -composition and reading, Kathleen Sullivan; spelling and penmanship, Eileen Lavery ; drawing and recitation, Josephine Keogh ; arithmetic, Bessie Jameson ; composition, Eileen Xavery ; singing, Bessie Jameson. Class 111. — Christian doctrine, Louis Becker ; composition, -reading, and drawing, Jack Fitzgerald ; arithmetic and geography, Louis Becker ; penmanship, recitation, and brushwork, Myrtle Wylie ; English grammar, spelling, and needle--work, May Read. Class IV. — Christian doctrine, Eileen Corby ; arithmetic, -reading, and drawing, Victor Becker ; spelling, penmanship, and ■ferushwork, Eileen Corby; geography, recitation, and Naturestudy, Kathleen Corby. The Sisters of Mercy tender their thanks to the following honors of prizes : — Ven. Archdeacon Devoy, Rev. Fathers AinsTRTorth and M'Carthy, Mesdames Bourke, Hislop, Collins, O'Sullivan, Reardon, Messrs Maurice O'Connor, North, H. Barber, J. Corby, W.. Redmond, J. J. Bourke, H. G. Houlds--^srorth, G. Winder, James O'Sullivan, and Laurenson.