Congratulations to Shaylee Fonua and Ruiqi Jiang who represented Sancta Maria College in the Year 9&10 Eastern Schools Zone Speech Competition, held on Thursday night (29 August 2024) in Botany Downs Secondary School. Both speeches were amazing and kept the audience spellbound, so much so, Ruiqi came away as the winner of the Year 10 […]
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On a cold winter Wednesday, at the end of July 2024, a group of Japanese students arrived on an exchange for the afternoon. They came from Itoshima High School (Japan) to Sancta Maria College to experience the New Zealand lifestyle and embrace our language. The exchange allowed the Year 10 & 11 Japanese language students
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Matthew 25:40: “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. ‘” On 7 August 2024, students, caregivers and teachers gathered at Christ the King Catholic Church, Owairaka to celebrate the annual Caring Foundation Mass, celebrated by
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On the morning of Friday 23 August 2024, the annual Year 9 and 10 speech competition commenced in the school’s auditorium. Eleven contestants were selected as the top speakers from each class: Myiesha Enriquez, Nelle Villeran, Shaylee Fonua, Jaydn Borromeo, Inez Robinson, Zoe Martis, Ayesha Joby, Ruiqi Jiang, Kayla Jones, Jade Howse, and Lusia Koloamatangi.
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Held from 25-28 July 2024, Seann Atis-Viray, Ava Neems, Sophia Neems, and Fiona Sheng competed in the New Zealand Secondary Schools (NZSS) Swimming Championships. All four students represented the school with pride and delivered some remarkable results: Seann (age group 15yrs): 100M Breaststroke: 13th 50M Butterfly: 25th Ava (age group 17-18yrs) 200M Breaststroke: 6th 100M
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In a thrilling display of creativity and technical prowess, senior students from Sancta Maria College’s math and physics departments participated in the University of Auckland’s Engineering Science Competition. The competition took place on Saturday 10 August, where the participants were faced with the question: “How many airships would be required to replace the Cook Strait
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Kael Sunga is a talented Year 11 student who recently travelled to Los Angeles to compete in the World of Dance finals. World of Dance is an international competition featuring 60+ finalists from across three competitive divisions, this year the competition was held in L.A. She and the New Zealand crew took part in the
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Micah McGrail is a Year 9 student who recently represented New Zealand. If that wasn’t enough of an achievement, she was also a medal winner! From 9 – 11 August 2024, she competed in the GKR Karate World Cup representing New Zealand. She was one of only four teams who managed to get into the
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From 5-9 August 2024 our Library transformed into the hustle and bustle of what can only be likened to Victoria Street Station, London. There were students ‘escaping’, building, quizzing, reading and learning! The Mystery of the Golden Pen kicked off on Monday and continued throughout the week – students had to solve clues around the
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8CLE have been learning to be editors and were tasked with writing to the local newspaper to describe a place of interest they had been to for a ‘Snapshot’ competition. Ariel Chua won with ‘Hawker Centre’, closely followed by Trisha Faye with her description of Barry Curtis Park and Zachary Calumpiano on Timezone took 3rd
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