If you like to challenge yourself and you like reading books, the Readers Cup should come to your mind. It is an intense and close competition of a quiz for Year 9 students which began in the library at Sancta Maria College late in term 1. Five teams of avid readers fought for the winning place, […]
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Sancta Maria College’s Youth Ministry Group participated in the “Praise and Pizza” event during term 1 of 2024 hosted at St. Peter’s College, alongside 15 other Catholic schools from the Auckland Diocese. The event started with a special Mass led by St. Peter’s chaplain, involving different students from different colleges. After that, it was time
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Sancta Maria College students came together to support the Caring foundation and raised over $1000 by donating a dollar and wearing mufti on the 21 March 2024! The Caring foundation is a Catholic organisation who help the poor and spread the gospel – our generous donation will go a long way in supporting their cause.
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In remembrance of ANZAC Day on the 25 April, Sancta Maria College was invited to create a visual and informative display for the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RSA) Howick to exhibit in the Howick Library. This task integrated into our Year 10 Social Sciences unit for term one – ‘Serving the Empire
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On Wednesday 27 March 2024, Year 7 & 8 Pacifica students went on a trip to the Due Drop Centre in Manukau. As we came inside the Due Drop Centre, we were greeted and given an official welcome from the Pacifica Mamas. Once we were in the Foyer, the sisters explained to us the Pacific
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Congratulations to a number of Sancta Maria College students, who have put in hours of training in their given sports and have delivered the following personal successes within Athletics. The following students achieved the amazing results at the recent College Sport Auckland Secondary Schools Championships in March: Cesar Garcia Soto – Junior Boys: 1st 300m,
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Some of our students repeated last year’s hard work, again at the start of this year, eradicating moth plants from our school grounds. The students, in partnership with Pest Free Howick Ward managed to deal with moth plant on the bridge at Te Irirangi Drive. It makes a big difference to our community and school
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On Saturday 16 March 2024, we welcomed back former board and establishment members, proprietors, staff, students, and friends of the college to celebrate our 20th year. What a terrific turn-out it was. The staffroom was a buzz as people caught up with one another, connecting and sharing stories with lots of laughter. During formalities, we
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Last Thursday, a group of our Prefect Team attended a Leadership Conference at the Due Drop Centre, Manukau, hosted by GRIP. Around 300 delegates, representing 20 New Zealand schools, heard messages and expert advice on how to grow leadership at their kura. The experience was thoroughly enjoyable as well as highly valuable as our student
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Congratulations to an ex-Sancta Maria College student, Breanna Jury, who recently had her paper published in the Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2024). Working alongside Angela Lorusso during their final year of engineering, their research focused on harnessing the potential of large language models to generate worked examples for enhancing programming education. Even more thrilling,
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