Congratulations to Shaylee Fonua and Ruiqi Jiang who represented Sancta Maria College in the Year 9&10 Eastern Schools Zone Speech Competition, held on Thursday night (29 August 2024) in Botany Downs Secondary School. Both speeches were amazing and kept the audience spellbound, so much so, Ruiqi came away as the winner of the Year 10 […]
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On the morning of Friday 23 August 2024, the annual Year 9 and 10 speech competition commenced in the school’s auditorium. Eleven contestants were selected as the top speakers from each class: Myiesha Enriquez, Nelle Villeran, Shaylee Fonua, Jaydn Borromeo, Inez Robinson, Zoe Martis, Ayesha Joby, Ruiqi Jiang, Kayla Jones, Jade Howse, and Lusia Koloamatangi.
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In a thrilling display of creativity and technical prowess, senior students from Sancta Maria College’s math and physics departments participated in the University of Auckland’s Engineering Science Competition. The competition took place on Saturday 10 August, where the participants were faced with the question: “How many airships would be required to replace the Cook Strait
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From 5-9 August 2024 our Library transformed into the hustle and bustle of what can only be likened to Victoria Street Station, London. There were students ‘escaping’, building, quizzing, reading and learning! The Mystery of the Golden Pen kicked off on Monday and continued throughout the week – students had to solve clues around the
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Our chess team displayed a great effort at the East Auckland Secondary Interschools chess competition. Held at Bucklands Beach Memorial Hall, our players fought valiantly against the tough competition, achieving some impressive feats. The playing field was tough, with over 80 players in 22 different teams. With the time set at 15 minutes and 5
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Week 4 of term 3 was a busy week for the music department. Competitions, entertainment and performances are being held everywhere! Fortunately, we had a blessed and fun week attending these annual competitions. Stand Up Stand Out (SUSO) being one of Sancta Maria’s biggest highlights of the year. Stand up Stand out is a yearly
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Apirana Taylor presented his poetry material to all our silenced senior students on 30 May 2024 – we enjoyed him reciting his poetry and sharing a little bit about himself and his life with us. After the presentation Apirana gave a focused workshop to a select group of students, in the Library’s Quiet Room. Apirana
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Congratulations to Meara Magsalay-Downie, Elizabeth Johnstone and Seline Nevado who participated in the Zonta Debate early June at the Howick Club. The girls debated against Botany Downs Secondary College and successfully negated the moot: This house believes that economic disadvantage is the greatest barrier for women. The girls have done our school proud by winning back
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Thank you to the Poetry in Action team who entertained us on Wednesday 5 June 2024 with their dynamic poetry performance, gripping us from the start with words of old. We saw some exciting performances from the shows, performed by only three actors – ‘The Power of Words’ and “Words of War’, which saw poetry come
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Our Year 10 Social Science students impressed Howick Rotary Club with their display, in fact they were impressed with the overall standard of all displays that were presented over the course of this inaugural ANZAC Schools Display event. Event organiser, Andy Revans conveyed ‘We would like to thank you all for the hard work of
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