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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Year 8 students had a visit from Blake NZ-VR earlier in the year and learnt about marine conservation, especially overfishing leading to kina barren, effecting the biodiversity and health of our watery planet. Students listened to a story and then drew what they heard on how (and why) just north of Auckland the very first
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Our chess team displayed a great effort at the East Auckland Secondary Interschools chess competition. Held at Bucklands Beach Memorial Hall, our players fought valiantly against the tough competition, achieving some impressive feats. The playing field was tough, with over 80 players in 22 different teams. With the time set at 15 minutes and 5
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Week 4 of term 3 was a busy week for the music department. Competitions, entertainment and performances are being held everywhere! Fortunately, we had a blessed and fun week attending these annual competitions. Stand Up Stand Out (SUSO) being one of Sancta Maria’s biggest highlights of the year. Stand up Stand out is a yearly
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Sancta Maria’s music department hit great success at this year annual KBB festival. The countless hours of practice and rehearsals have been exemplified through the impressive results across all our bands. This year we sent four groups, including our Big Band, Symphonia, Concert Band and Stage Band, all winning silver or bronze awards. Held all
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