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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Matthew 25:40: “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. ‘” On 7 August 2024, students, caregivers and teachers gathered at Christ the King Catholic Church, Owairaka to celebrate the annual Caring Foundation Mass, celebrated by
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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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Kael Sunga is a talented Year 11 student who recently travelled to Los Angeles to compete in the World of Dance finals. World of Dance is an international competition featuring 60+ finalists from across three competitive divisions, this year the competition was held in L.A. She and the New Zealand crew took part in the
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Micah McGrail is a Year 9 student who recently represented New Zealand. If that wasn’t enough of an achievement, she was also a medal winner! From 9 – 11 August 2024, she competed in the GKR Karate World Cup representing New Zealand. She was one of only four teams who managed to get into 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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Sancta Maria’s music department hit great success at this year annual KBB festival. The countless hours of practice and rehearsals have been exemplified through the impressive results across all our bands. This year we sent four groups, including our Big Band, Symphonia, Concert Band and Stage Band, all winning silver or bronze awards. Held all
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Early August 2024, the Year 13 geography students went on an overnight trip to Rotorua to collect data and gain knowledge for their upcoming internal and external assessments on tourism development in Rotorua. The two jam packed days consisted of visiting local attractions like Te Puia, the 3D Trick Art Gallery, the Rotorua lakefront, Redwoods
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We welcomed our returning students and a number of new short term international students into our school whānau at the start of term 1. As a welcome to New Zealand and to help bond our international team, they enjoyed an afternoon at Cockle Bay beach – our students experienced fish and chips (some for the
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