Top ATAR students from Gympie’s St Patrick’s College

Gympie’s future is bright with several students delivering top ATAR results. See the scores and their diverse ambitions here.

Roscoe Wilsch, Naomi Speed and Bridget Coyne from St Patrick’s College performed extremely well in 2021 and landed top marks.

Three of Gympie’s top ATAR performers have been revealed and these super students all have diverse ambitions.

Roscoe Wilsch, Naomi Speed and Bridget Coyne from St Patrick’s College performed extremely well this year and landed top marks.

Naomi was in bed when the ATAR results were released 8am on December 17 and raced to show her mum the score of 94.85, the equivalent of an OP three or four.

To reach her goals she took chemistry, biology, math methods, general English, SOR and her favourite, modern history.

“My chemistry and math teachers this year were brilliant. We had lots of good teachers,” she said.

Naomi now hopes to go to university and study a Bachelor of Midwifery and is considering a postgraduate degree in medicine.

Naomi Speed received a 94.85.

Bridget told the Gympie Times she didn’t get much sleep the night before the results were released thanks to nerves.

She checked her results as soon as she woke up and was ecstatic when she saw she had received a 94.25, also the equivalent of an OP three or four.

She plans to go to the University of Queensland next year and study a double degree; a Bachelor of science, majoring in microbiology, and medical science with a dream to work in biology.

She took chemistry, math methods, religion, English, modern history and her favourite- biology.

Her favourite teachers were Ms Cooley, Mr Welsh and Ms Palmer.

Bridget Coyne received a 94.25.

Meanwhile, Roscoe Wilsch received a stunning 99.50, the equivalent of an OP 1.

Throughout his schooling life, he won an Academic Excellence award, an ADF Future innovators award, a Royal Australian Chemical Institute Chemical Excellence award, an Australian Institute of Physics Excellence in Physics award and was in the top 85% of Queensland Students in chemistry, English, mathematical methods, physics, specialist maths and religion.

When he woke up to his result, he says he wasn’t expecting much and was very pleasantly surprised.

“A lot of late nights spent,” he joked.

He took the math specialist, math methods, chemistry, physics, English and SOR and said he enjoyed all of subjects and dedicated his good experience to his great teachers, specifically his physics and chemistry teachers.

Following in his little brothers footsteps, he plans to join the navy next year which is something he has wanted to do since he turned six.

“Navy grey was the favourite colour and I’ve always loved the ocean and love the military side of things,” he said.

Roscoe Wilsch received a 99.50.

Originally published as Top ATAR students from Gympie’s St Patrick’s College