Class of 2025: Meet the student captains leading Tasmania’s Top 30 Public High Schools
These are the teens chosen by Tasmania’s best public schools to set an example for every student. Read about their duties and future plans, and see the full top 30 rankings.
To celebrate the schools ranked in our list of Tasmania’s Top Public High Schools, we spoke to some student leaders about their responsibilities, ambitions, and what they believe makes a great role model.
Flinders Island District High School
Jaxon Scown – student leader
Jaxon works hard to make everyone feel safe and happy at school. After grade 10 he will attend Newstead College. He hopes to become a TAC Ranger to fulfil his passion of working on country and learning about his culture.
Ella Mollineaux – student leader
As a student leader Ella helps organise school sporting events and volunteers her time to working in the community. She believes a student leader is someone who is open to the student voice. After she finishes school she plans to study education.
Latrobe High School
Elsie Badcock and Georgie Tueon – school captains
As school captains, Elsie and Georgie see themselves as the face and voice of their school. They seek to represent their peers with pride, integrity and humility in the hopes of fostering a positive school culture. They say to be a good student leader you must be easy to talk to, reliable, emotionally aware, empathetic, resilient, and always willing to get involved. While Georgie is using this year to explore all the options ahead of her in terms of work and future study, Elsie, who comes from a generational farming family, aims to pursue career as a veterinarian.
Wynyard High School
Willow Cummins – student executive council co-president
Willow represents the student voice – both inside, and outside of the school gates. She helps to run school socials, represent the student body at events, and regularly meets with staff. She aims to be a responsible, creative, and hardworking role model to her peers and generate fresh ideas to improve the school community. She would like to study law and political science at university to be a force for change.
Olivia Jones – student executive council co-president
Olivia works hard to make the student voice heard. Patience, empathy, respect, and active listening are just some of the qualities needed to be a great student leader. She aspires to become either a HPE teacher or personal trainer or sporting coach. She wants to combine her passions of education and travelling to work as a teacher overseas.
Penguin District School
Katie – secondary student board member
Katie helps to support younger students at her school, creates lunchtime activities and liaises with teachers to provide feedback on teaching and learning. For her, confidence is key to being an effective student leader. She plans to study medicine.
Mitchell – secondary student board member
Mitchell helps host assemblies, create speeches and stories for the school newsletter, raise awareness for community and statewide issues and serves as a youth voice at a local council level. He aims to lead by example and try new things, and plans to pursue an electrical apprenticeship as well as sporting pathways.
Triabunna District School
Oscaar Kent – school captain
As a student leader Oscaar provides a link between students and staff. He says a great school captain demonstrates responsibility, friendliness, and a genuine pride in the school. He aims to study business to become a financial planner.
Stella Rimon – school captain
Stella works to support students and teachers during sporting carnivals, and represents the school during excursions and events. She believes a great school captain is adaptable, a good communicator, and has a willingness to give things a go. She wants to be a physiotherapist.
Clarence High School
Akira Midgley – head prefect
Akira’s responsibilities as a student leader include organising school events through liaising with donors and sponsors, and attending weekly planning meetings. She strives to be a positive face for the school and believes a great student leader is someone with ideas, ambition, and a helpful attitude. She has interests in biology, environmental science, psychology and neuroscience, but also hopes to join a rock band and perform on stage.
Emmet Skingle – head prefect
Emmet strives to be a role model for his peers and create a safe and respectful environment for all students. Empathy, and leading by example are the qualities that make a great student leader. After high school he plans on moving to the mainland to pursue a PhD in mathematics, after which he wants to work as a university professor or in the economic sector.
Taroona High School
Lilith Fleming – co-SRC president
As a co-SRC president, Lilith runs inter-school debating, the sustainability club, model UN and the Taroona High School Scholarship Program. She believes a great school captain demonstrates honesty, ambition, commitment, and creativity. She plans to pursue a double degree in political science and psychology in Melbourne or Queensland, and then work as a psychologist before pursuing a career in federal politics.
Wai (Eisen) Chan – co-SRC president
Wai helps maintain productivity in his position as an SRC leader, as well as organise activities and provide general support to fellow students. He aims to be open-minded, ambitious, honest, diligent and empathetic as a student leader, and aspires to a career in the university or healthcare sector as a specialist.
Isabella Trinh – SRC member
Isabella serves as a role model to other students, and contributes ideas to help improve the school and its environment. She believes a great student leader demonstrates commitment, integrity, respect and innovation, and she aims to study medicine.
Eve (Evie) O’Neill – SRC member
Evie takes on student ideas and feedback, organises and runs school events, and helps implement plans to make the school a better place. In her opinion, a great student leader is someone who is honest, respectful, innovative and outgoing. She wants to take a gap year to travel before pursuing civil engineering studies in Melbourne, after which she plans to relocate to Tasmania.
Burnie High School
CJ Cole and Amarli Palmer – SRC members
CJ and Amarli help organise school events and fundraisers, including assemblies, Anzac Day services, school association meetings, weekly school barbecues for students and teachers, and grade 6 transition events. They say school captains must be open-minded and willing to contribute their own time to getting things done. While Amarli aims to go to Queensland to continue her sporting career and study a health-related university course, CJ is considering a career as a physiotherapist.
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