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Just before lockdown, the jazz students spent days busily playing music. With both the KBB Music Festival and the Auckland Jazz Competition in full roar, music students from all year levels enjoyed performing their well-rehearsed pieces, listening to other schools, and learning from their experiences. Our school has brought back amazing results from KBB – […]

Earlier this month, a team of year 11 geography students participated in the highly anticipated Matangi Whenua Geography competition. Representing Sancta Maria College, Johann Ang, Megan Bottom and myself competed alongside approximately 20 other schools. The annual competition Matangi Whenua, hosted at Saint Cuthbert’s College, took place on Thursday, 12th of August. Consisting of 8

On Wednesday the 12th of May and Friday the 14th of May, Year 7 set off on a science excursion to the Botanical Gardens in Manurewa. The students were on a mission to identify the difference between healthy streams compared with unhealthy streams. We kicked off the day by jumping on the bus and heading

Maddi Blincoe and Abby Tay Morrison take on a unique challenge – cutting hair for charity! The 40 Hour Famine is the largest youth fundraising campaign run by World Vision to raise money and awareness for those in need. For 2021, the 40 Hour Famine challenge happened last weekend – June 25-27th. Maddi Blincoe was

Kia Orana! There is a small population of Cook Island students and teachers at Sancta Maria College. Mrs Rehu and Mr Rimamate wanted to acknowledge the culture of these people. From t 2nd – 6th August was the celebration of Cook Island Language and Culture. Mrs Rehu was born in Rarotonga (Cook Islands) while Mr

As our world begins to advance in technology at an exponential rate, newer gadgets become more accessible to people, one of them being virtual reality. The year 8s get to experience this new thrilling adventure, travelling around the coastal waters of NZ, right from their seats! A group called BLAKE, came to our school to

  ‘I AM HOPE’ is a foundation aiming to make available 24/7 professional counselling services for young people. An opportunity where young people are able to have someone to talk to about our challenges. We know that life is pretty rough at times and we are unable to navigate our way through the difficulties. In

Hundreds of years ago Aotearoa was discovered by Polynesian voyagers travelling aboard their wakas. This term the Year 8 cohort are researching about what it was like in pre-European Aotearoa. Luckily we had the opportunity to go and learn from some experts at the Maritime Museum about the ways of the early Polynesians that discovered

During the last week of the holidays, three Sancta Maria Jazz Combos: The Keas, The Fantails and The Kererus took the stage at the Wednesday Night Market. As the final 40 Hour Famine fundraiser for the year, busking proved to be an entertaining way of getting the community involved in the cause. Each combo used

“Inner peace for outward action.” – this was the theme for the annual Peace Symposium. Sixteen Sancta Maria College students were fortunate enough this event and which provided the inspiration to create interesting activities throughout the week at school. These activities were to help students reflect on their idea of peace and to spread love.