After struggling with reading and writing in her early schooling years, she was diagnosed with learning disorder dyslexia, development co-ordination disorder (formerly known as dyspraxia) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Zoe herself has written frankly about these - detailing her subsequent and ongoing experiences dealing with “my neurodiversity” and how she has been able to develop academically through the likes of special assessment conditions.
Throughout all the challenges, one thing has remained constant for the former Te Hapara School and Gisborne Intermediate student, who shifted to Iona College in Year 8 ...”I love learning.”
To end her secondary school years, Zoe has been sitting five NCEA Level 3 subject assessments and four NZQA scholarship assessments.
She was awarded a University of Otago New Frontiers Excellence Entrance Scholarship and will head to Dunedin next year to study for a Bachelor of Arts majoring in classics and anthropology and minoring in Latin and English.
Her dream career would be an archaeologist, classicist or working with antiquities.
