Academic

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do,
you will never cease to grow.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

Sancta Maria College is an academic school committed to empowering each individual to strive towards reaching their full potential through the excellent educational opportunities and experiences provided. The curriculum, including Religious Education, is taught with a Catholic dimension and emphasis is given to educating the whole person.

Sancta Maria College is one of Auckland’s leading academic schools. Examination results are superb, with students achieving significantly higher grades than National averages. Pass rates are consistently high for all levels. Many students achieve their qualifications with merit or excellence endorsement. Again, the percentage of students achieving these endorsements is significantly higher than National and decile averages.

Students are supported academically by passionate and inspirational teachers who go the extra mile to ensure that each student fulfils their academic potential. Tutorials and extra assistance are offered, and a comprehensive monitoring and mentoring scheme ensures success for all. Teachers combine future-focused classroom practices with traditional approaches to challenge and extend all learners.

We are committed to preparing our students to embrace the future with optimism and our prime concern is that a student’s experiences at Sancta Maria College are happy, stimulating and rewarding and that each individual is able to make the most of the opportunities the College provides.

Our 2018 Education Review Office report stated:

Sancta Maria College successfully achieves equitable and excellent outcomes for its students.
The curriculum is highly responsive to students’ individual strengths and capabilities.
Achievement information shows very high levels of student success in NCEA for all groups of students, including Māori and Pacific.

Key strengths are

- a strategic approach to building professional capability, and collective capacity that promotes innovation and expertise across the curriculum
- a responsive curriculum that is personalised to cater for students’ various interests and strengths
- holistic achievement approaches that promote student wellbeing and learning success

In choosing Sancta Maria College you will be choosing to have your child educated as a whole person in an environment that is welcoming, supportive and safe, and with a focus on ensuring your child is empowered with the values, skills, dispositions and knowledge to successfully navigate the future landscape of work.

Learning at Sancta Maria College is led by our localised Purpose Curriculum, and underpinned by our SMC Learning Framework.

Year 7-10 Curriculum

The Junior Curriculum offers a broad choice of subjects for students to experience whilst also providing them with a firm foundation for the learning skills they will need to achieve academic success at senior levels.

At Sancta Maria College, we pride ourselves on our positive learning relationships with an emphasis on manaakitanga, building and nurturing a supportive learning environment in which all learners can thrive and reach their full potential.

Transition points, from Year 6 to 7, Year 8 to 9 and Year 10 to 11 are supported with a focus on connection and continuity.

We understand and value the need to provide engaging learning activities which ensure that students have opportunities to learn through a variety of approaches. There is an emphasis on making learning meaningful in order to enable students to be better learners and help nurture student autonomy as a life-long learner by encouraging them to take responsibility for their learning.

Year 9/Year 10 | Curriculum Guide | Year 9 Connected Curriculum | Year 10 Connected Curriculum

Year 11-13 Curriculum

Senior students study six subjects, choosing from a wide range of subjects that lead to exciting career opportunities.

Students at Sancta Maria College consistently achieve strong academic results at NCEA, well above national averages.

Sancta Maria College NCEA Results 2024

Qualification	Sancta Maria College	National Average (2023)
NCEA Level 1	89.9%	44.9%
NCEA Level 2	97.1%	72.7%
NCEA Level 3	95.2%	68.2%
University Entrance	87.2%	48.2%

NCEA Results endorsed with Merit or Excellence 2024

Endorsement Level:	Sancta Maria College (2024)	National Average (2024)
NCEA Level 1	64.8%	39.7%
NCEA Level 2	65.2%	40.1%
NCEA Level 3	56.3%	40.1%

Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 |

NCEA Information

New Zealand’s National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is the national qualification for senior secondary school students. NCEA challenges students of all abilities in all learning areas and shows credits and grades for separate skills and knowledge. It enables students to gain credits from both traditional school curriculum areas and alternative programmes. NCEA and other national certificates are recognised by employers and used as the benchmark for selection by universities and polytechnics. NCEA is also readily accepted overseas, including by universities. When applying for employment, prospective employees can create a summary of their results from their Record of Achievement.

Read our 2023 Academic honours’ students here

Academic

Year 7-10 Curriculum

Year 11-13 Curriculum

Sancta Maria College NCEA Results 2024

NCEA Results endorsed with Merit or Excellence 2024

NCEA Information

Academic Policies and Procedures

NCEA Application Forms

NCEA Handbooks

NCEA Academic Honours Badge

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