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Our 2019 prefect team had the great privilege to come together with the other Catholic school leadership teams in Auckland last Sunday. This event was the February Diocesan Youth Mass, hosted by both Logos Project and the Salt and Light leaders.

We started our summer holiday this year perfectly – just a stone’s throw from Whangarei on the Tutukaka peninsula at Pataua North.

An early flowering of Pohutakawa meant that the coast was vibrant with colour and practically humming with bees. It felt good to be out of town for a while and as I relaxed on the sand listening to the music the bees made, I started to think….

Sunny weather, blue sky and a clear breeze proved to be the perfect conditions for the school’s annual Athletics day competition. Excited students participated in both field and track events, representing their house hoping that they would win the athletics competition.

As of Monday, February 25, due to the volume of traffic at the start and end of the school day, a traffic management plan has been implemented to ensure that the flow of traffic continues with the least traffic build up during these heavy volume times.

Academic success was celebrated at assembly Thursday morning. At NCEA Level 1: 60 students received a Silver award, 41 Gold and 3 gained Scholar Excellence Endorsed. At Level 2: 47 received silver, 36 Gold and 7 earned Scholar Excellence Endorsed. Level 3 saw 48 students gain silver, 27 Gold, and 4 achieved Scholar Excellence Endorsed.

In this series of articles we find out about our student leaders, their background, roles and ambitions. Today we feature our deputy head prefects in charge of school community, David Patlong and Kelly Mascarenhas.

“All of us” is one of the key phrases in our school acronym, and on Wednesday “all of us” gathered together as a faith community to celebrate Sancta Maria College’s Inaugural Mass of 2019.

On Tuesday, 19 February, Sancta Maria College had around 25 orienteerers from a variety of year levels take part in the first of eight events in the Sprint Series.

House spirit was pouring out of everyone on Tuesday during the house assemblies. The houses Kororareka (red), Akaroa (Gold), Waitemata (green) and Hokianga (blue) were all preparing their house chants for the competition on Friday at athletics day.

Along the coast line, about an hour away from the business centre of Auckland, lies the beach where it is perfect to watch a sunset, the aptly named Sunset Beach.