Maia Tay-Morrison

In this series of articles, we find out about our student leaders, their backgrounds, roles and ambitions. Today we feature our Performing Art Prefects, Camilla Isip and Andrew Botting. The roles of our 2022 Performing Art Prefects are to oversee all school events involving Drama, Music, Dance, and more. Camilla Isip Camilla’s desire to fulfill […]

This term, the Caritas team have been significantly involved in the school community, accomplishing their goals to ‘Move it’, ‘Live it’, ‘Sweat it’, and ‘Stop it’, but more particularly ‘Sweat it’. The team have been working hard within the ‘Sweat it’ goal collected jam jars for the purpose of upcycling them into vases as Christmas

Introducing Katherine Hebley, Sancta Maria College’s amazing cello Teacher and Mentor for our classical musicians. She especially loves to make music and play with various people, and of course, she is a professional member of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. It is no surprise that cello is her passion! Sparked by spare time while her children

In late 2021, the Toloa Tertiary scholarship programme approached Sancta Maria in the hope of receiving talented Pacifica students categorized in STEAM areas (science, technology, arts and mathematics). To elaborate, the Toloa scholarship programme revolves around their core objective; to help Pacifica students thrive in STEAM – managed through requests by the Ministry of Education.

Following on from our first article in the ‘Insider look into SMC life’ project, we introduce our new Music teacher who is also behind our rising musicians, Mr Craig Humphries – Core music teacher. Click here to read our last music teacher article featuring our head of department, Mr Gibbs. Mr Humphries’ role at Sancta

In this series of articles, we find out about our student leaders, their backgrounds, roles and ambitions. Today we feature our International Prefects, Rosie Phung and Aurn Satjawongvanich. These 2 students are international students at our college, and their main mission as an International Prefect, is to make life easier for our international students – making

Another year means another year of music at Sancta Maria College and the next group to start rehearsals is the celebrated Concert Band! However, the full band Thursday rehearsals were to look quite different due to Covid-19 restrictions, especially given the nature of the instruments in the band and the reliance of a mask-less face

In this series of articles, we find out about our student leaders, their backgrounds, roles and ambitions. Today we feature our Sport Prefects, Margarett Ropati, Jorja McKay, and Jeremy Sasis. The 2022 Sports Prefects are passionate to improve the athletic areas of SMC. They will be working alongside the Sports Committee and Co-ordinators to organise

Earlier this month, many students, along with Dr Laux and Mrs McCreath, set to task, working hard to give our once beautiful butterfly garden a makeover. This was a joint effort between members of the Caritas group and the Enviro team – an event that attracted many other students who simply wanted to help. It

Symphonia 2022 is well underway – it is a passionate orchestra of 25 SMC students who practice and master their given instruments, led by none other than Mr Gibbs, Head of the Music Department, who works tirelessly to provide music opportunities for the SMC community. You can find his interview and feature article here. Symphonia