Natasha Griggs (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Essington School in my electorate of Solomon recently had its preschool graduation ceremony for its modern Montessori pupils. Fifty-two young, bright minds attended the ceremony to perform three songs for the audience. I have to say that I was very impressed with the children singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town in Mandarin—it was the highlight of the evening. I had the privilege of being able to award the students their graduation certificates as well as shaking all their hands. I would like to read into Hansard the names of the graduating students: Paras Agarwal, Aanya Babu, Jace Barnes, Zoey Barolits, Ellora Bear, Monte Bridge, Charlotte Cabot, Ava Caputi, Emily Cavers, Alexander Chin, Alessandro Cirillo, Chanel Cox, Deklian Cross, Luke Dimasi, Margaux Dornier, Zoe Georgakis, Alessia Handford, James Harley, Oliver Houben, Oliver Jones, Sophia Karanikolas, Aiden Kent, Christina Kiranou, Hannah Lay, Emily Lowe, Elri Mentz, Orlando Muhandiram, Kaisher Parmar, Anthony Papandonakis, Anaiya Patel, Nate Pauline, Lloyd Pearce, Alice Phillips, Arthur Phillips, Ruby Quin-Conroy, Amrutha Rajasekar, Sarvesh Ramamoorthi, Spencer Simpson and Nomikos Skandaliaris. I have a very multicultural electorate. I look forward to spending many more evenings with these children, because they were quite outstanding.

With the little bit of time that I have left, I would also like to acknowledge the Kormilda College students who created history in that they were the first Territory win of the Australasian Pacific Finals of Tournament of Minds. Kormilda College took home first prize in the maths engineering category, the Territory's first in the 32 years it has been running. I would like to congratulate some of the Territory's brightest students for their hard work: Tinika Van De Wildekamp, Raphael Duffy, Jesse Ramsay, Ishwar Ramkumar, Micah Ramsay, Dirk Van De Wildekamp and Josiah Little. I am really pleased that I was able to read their names into the Hansard too. We have some outstanding schools in the Northern Territory. (Time expired)