Five Year 7 and Year 8 students were chosen to compete in a debating competition at Howick Intermediate. It was a great experience and introduction to debating for them while taking time off school in this challenging year. There were six schools participating, all determined to take the trophy back home! There were three debates, […]
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Miss Bradley’s Year 12 and Year 13 Geo class left school at 7.30am to head to Muriwai Beach for the day. The trip had been postponed multiple times as a result of New Zealand’s lockdowns, and it was a relief for students to finally be able to start their internal. It was a sunny but
Even though 2020 has been a challenging and eventful year, Sancta Maria College was still able to send two teams to compete in the annual Kids’ Lit Quiz competition. Each team consisted of four Year 7 and 8 students that were passionate about reading and books. Kids’ Lit Quiz is a worldwide competition about literature
As the Year 8s arrived at D block with smiles and colourful clothes on a beautiful Thursday morning, the bell rang to start our second Reflective School Retreat, organised by the Year 8 Teachers and the Logos team. All the Year 8 homerooms walked without a sound towards the Gym, where they were greeted with
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A successful Mufti Day took place last Friday for the fundraiser of St Luke’s Church. The contribution of gold coins from students dressed in Mufti will either be going towards the beautiful Church organ or front stained-glass window. With construction currently underway, the completion is scheduled for April 2021 in time for next year’s Easter.
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An exciting development has seen the SMC Lions Garden set up during the last school break with the plaque fixed in place this week. The partnership between Lions Papatoetoe and Sancta Maria College over the past 5 years has seen several service activities being shared: Tree planting at Totara Park, Manukau Trust Environment Days, the annual
The Year 9 retreat, led by the Logos team, was both fun and interesting. The theme was We are the Church. We completed five activities that we did in rotation throughout the day. One of the activities was learning about saints. We focused on two saints and also on the venerable Suzanne Aubert. We first
October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness and Rona Sabinada, a Year 12, has put herself forward to show her support for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Her support goes far and wide where she had organised “Sewing for a Cause”, a project that took place in the holidays in the College’s Soft Tech room.
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The 2020 SMC Virtual Cultural Festival is fast approaching, and in this series of articles we will be introducing the performances we have prepared. Today, we will be introducing the Senior Samoan Cultural group. The Senior Samoan Group involves students from Years 11-13, led by Miriama Magele–Rees, the 2020 group leader and tutor. These girls have been working very hard, twice a week to showcase
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Just before the school break, a group of 32 senior students were finally able to sit their learner drivers licence test. It had originally been set for the 14th of August, but unfortunately, only a few days before the test was set to be taken, the country went into lockdown as a result of Covid-19.
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