In this series of articles, we introduce you to our Peer Support Leaders for 2020, and their perspectives on providing support for younger students. Today, we get to know two of our Year 12 leaders, Sydney and Isabella. This year, Sydney Causer and Isabella Chan are Year 12 peer support leaders who work with a […]
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This week is Enviro Week! Be sure not to miss out on the amazing events organised by the Enviro team. Here are the events planned for this week: Monday – Old or unwanted phones and glasses for collection in the Student Centre. Tuesday – Bring a reusable cup to get free hot chocolate or coffee
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A health and safety course took place on Thursday for a group of 25 Sancta Maria College students and three students from Elim College. It was hosted by ‘Safety ‘n Action’, a professional training organisation committed to achieving high standards of safety in the workplace and was organised by our school’s careers department. The students
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Sancta Maria College held a mufti day on Wednesday, our main fundraiser for this term. Students came to school on a foggy morning with their gold coin donations to raise money for Caritas New Zealand. Caritas is a Catholic organisation, working to help those in need all around the world. The organiser of this mufti
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Two teams of Year 9 students competed in the EPro8 challenge held at Papatoetoe High School last week. It put their problem solving, engineering, mathematics, electronics and science skills to the test and required them to think outside the box. Rory Quiding, Kaitlin Eustaquio, Benjamin Botting and Isaac Sheng did us proud and came second
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In this series of articles, we introduce you to our Peer Support Leaders for 2020, and their perspectives on providing support for younger students. Today, we get to know two of our year 12 leaders, Alex and Minju. Two Peer Support leaders are Alex Guadalupe and Minju Kim. Minju loves peer support because she can
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Blake NZ-VR came to Sancta to educate us about our oceans. The 1-hour session kept us engaged, taking us on a tour of our oceans, showing us how they are changing. Just sitting on our seat in a classroom using VR headsets we got 360˚ videos which were so realistic that we felt like holding
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With additional bin stations being placed around the school following last term’s student survey, four of our students gathered together to come up with ideas on how we could educate more students and teachers to use the bins correctly. Following a brainstorming of ideas, we produced a display which can be viewed in the Library.
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For two days in the July holidays, 46 Year 11 Sancta Maria College students attended a Level 2 Digital Literacy course at Techtorium in Newmarket organised by our Careers Department. The first day was spent with tutors Sam and Danielle learning about computer components and expanding knowledge of which ones would be best to select
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28 students from year 10 were chosen as middle school leaders for 2020. This involved an application from many contenders aspiring to be chosen in the leadership role. They will go on to assist in different areas of the school. Congratulations to these students who have been selected as middle school leaders: House leaders –
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