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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On Thursday 27 July 2023, ten of our schools’ junior leaders took part in a leadership conference held at Mission Heights Junior College. It was truly a day of experiences where we met new people from other schools and delved deeper into issues for our youth. We were organised into ten groups, each with one
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Blake NZVR came to our school to educate and captivate us. Immersing us through our diverse New Zealand coastline. With VR headsets, we explored ‘looking up, down, and all around’ our beautiful country! Witnessing marvels of the ocean, we saw thriving marine ecosystems giving us a visual representation of what we’re studying in class. Seeing
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On 9 May 2023, as part of the Physical Education & Health internal assessment, Social Responsibility, the Year 12 cohort attended leisure activities at Paradice Ice Skating, Timezone and Gravity. Divided into three groups, they went on buses to each of the activities, with each group rotating around to the different places. The purpose of
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On Wednesday 14 June 2023, many of our Hato Maria whānau gathered in BG4 for the opportunity to see what has been happening at Sancta Maria College for our Māori students and to collect some feedback. Making fried bread for all of the visitors was the first task of the afternoon to show manaakitanga to
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