From 3rd to 7th August, Filipino Cultural Week was celebrated for the first time at Sancta Maria College. It was a chance for all students to be exposed to Filipino Culture, and proved to be a huge success. Popular games from the Philippines such as Patintero and Tumbang Preso were played during lunchtimes. Tumbang Preso […]
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Saturday was filled with many successes for the Sancta Maria Netball Club. The day began with a turbulent forecast making the games even more challenging for our players. The message, which was spread by coach of 10A and Premier, Leanne Farmer, was to “keep composure and control the game”. All of our girls showed outstanding
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After a long drive to Remuera, a small group of Sancta Maria College’s young musicians spent Wednesday evening at the Lewis Eady Chamber Music Showcase and performed two pieces from the hit musical Hamilton. The chamber group, named the Elan Ensemble, consists of Novyna Tolentino (voice), Quintin Wong (piano), Kres Bosales (violin), Jennifer Zeng (cello),
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In this series of articles, we introduce you to our Peer Support Leaders for 2020, and their perspectives on providing support for younger students. Today, we get to know two of our Year 12 leaders, Sydney and Isabella. This year, Sydney Causer and Isabella Chan are Year 12 peer support leaders who work with a
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This week is Enviro Week! Be sure not to miss out on the amazing events organised by the Enviro team. Here are the events planned for this week: Monday – Old or unwanted phones and glasses for collection in the Student Centre. Tuesday – Bring a reusable cup to get free hot chocolate or coffee
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A health and safety course took place on Thursday for a group of 25 Sancta Maria College students and three students from Elim College. It was hosted by ‘Safety ‘n Action’, a professional training organisation committed to achieving high standards of safety in the workplace and was organised by our school’s careers department. The students
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Sancta Maria College held a mufti day on Wednesday, our main fundraiser for this term. Students came to school on a foggy morning with their gold coin donations to raise money for Caritas New Zealand. Caritas is a Catholic organisation, working to help those in need all around the world. The organiser of this mufti
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Two teams of Year 9 students competed in the EPro8 challenge held at Papatoetoe High School last week. It put their problem solving, engineering, mathematics, electronics and science skills to the test and required them to think outside the box. Rory Quiding, Kaitlin Eustaquio, Benjamin Botting and Isaac Sheng did us proud and came second
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In this series of articles, we introduce you to our Peer Support Leaders for 2020, and their perspectives on providing support for younger students. Today, we get to know two of our year 12 leaders, Alex and Minju. Two Peer Support leaders are Alex Guadalupe and Minju Kim. Minju loves peer support because she can
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Blake NZ-VR came to Sancta to educate us about our oceans. The 1-hour session kept us engaged, taking us on a tour of our oceans, showing us how they are changing. Just sitting on our seat in a classroom using VR headsets we got 360˚ videos which were so realistic that we felt like holding
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