Students, caregivers and teachers gathered at Christ The King Catholic Church in Owairaka to celebrate the Catholic Caring Foundation’s Annual Caring Mass, celebrated by Msgr. Bernard Kiely. This Mass was initiated by the Catholic Caring Foundation, whose mission is ‘To promote the dignity of persons…to fulfil the command of Jesus Christ to love one’s neighbour…to […]
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Eucharistic ministry is a very sacred ministry that few are called to do. The Eucharistic ministers assist the priest in distributing the precious body and blood of Christ (Holy Communion) to Catholics or giving a blessing to children (who have not yet received their sacrament of First Holy Communion) and blessing non-Catholic people who may
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The auditorium was packed with eager Year 7-10 students, ready to take on any challenge presented to them, as the Mathex competition begun. Each year group had their allotted time to compete, and they had been busy preparing leading up to the much-anticipated event, which occurs during Maths Week (7-11 August 2023). The competition got
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Samoan Language Week was celebrated from 28 May – 3 June 2023 at Sancta Maria College. The week-long event schedule gave everyone the opportunity to experience and celebrate the bright and strong heritage of the Samoan Culture. From Monday to Thursday activities and performances were planned to showcase the energy and pride in their cultural
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On Thursday 24th August the Year 7 netball boys went to represent Sancta Maria College at Auckland Champs. Our first game was against Kelston Intermediate, and at half time they were winning by 1. We subbed on some fresh legs for the second half and ended up winning! It was a good experience for our
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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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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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