On Wednesday 23 August 2023, we hosted other secondary school students and staff from the region, as well as community members for ‘Caring for Papatūānuku’ Cluster, in our school auditorium. Following a welcome from Courtenay Kilpatrick and a Karakia from our kaitiakitanga Prefect, Cate Jessep, the Sustainable Schools Advisor introduced the biodiversity team that supports […]
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The morning of 3 August 2023 found Year 11 and 13 PE Studies students leaving at 7:45am and heading off to the Kumeu Showgrounds to participate in the Tough Guy Tough Gal Challenge for secondary school students. The weather had not been promising, the day before, but students were graced with clear skies and cool
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Congratulations to our very own Fiona Sheng who has had an amazing 2023 Swimming season. She finished the secondary schools’ season with the following results: 100 IM: 14th 50 Fly: 8th 100 Free: 8th 200 Free: 7th 50 Free: 15th Well done, Fiona, you have had a fabulous season.
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As a part of their studies, the Year 13 Food and Hospitality students make and sell food at their annual market day, which was held on Wednesday 23 August this year. Before even thinking about baking or cooking, the students had to plan each step of their process which included buying ingredients, calculating their profit-maximising
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The Caritas Challenge event took place on the evening of Friday 23 June 2023 in the school Auditorium with a variety of Year 11, 12 and 13 students participating. The concept of this year’s Caritas Challenge was to stimulate the life of people living in Fiji, where people face many challenges like poverty and climate
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To end our first school term, the Special Character and Service Prefects organised the Lenten Liturgy. The 14 Stations that led to the death of Jesus Christ were reenacted by some of our prefects and the senior drama students. The prefects not involved in the scenes narrated a station, read a reflection, and said a
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Chloe Ferrera (Year 9) has had an impressive year of Karate competitions which she has trained hard for and has even taken her to international locations. She participated in United Arab Emirates earlier in the year and was placed 7th in the world for Youth league 2023. An impressive achievement alone, however Chloe continued her
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Students from Sancta Maria College attended the Taekwon-Do New Zealand Nationals at Trust Stadium, Henderson from 29-30 July 2023. There were over 300 competitors participating from across New Zealand over the two-day event. The students represented the Counties Manukau region and performed the following results: Merryn Raukura: won 1 gold medal and 1 bronze medal.
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Secondary School Tough Guy and Gal Challenge took place at Kumeu Showgrounds on Thursday, 3 August 2023 with over 20 schools and 1000 students participating. The course includes water trails, a spider’s web net climb, mud slide, crawl under barbed wire, a tricky wire rope bridge, native bush trails, paddock running, swamp crossing and more
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On 4 August 2023, 9CLE were very fortunate to go on a trip to Jean Hamilton’s farm in Karaka to participate in the Trees for Survival planting day. Trees for Survival is a charitable trust which works with local schools and communities across Aotearoa to provide opportunities for children to make a difference while learning
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