Cans for Christmas to bring seasonal cheer
We gathered in total around 800 cans, which will see hundreds of kids have smiles on their faces this Christmas.
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Kahui Ako
Teachers from all over New Zealand have travelled to Sancta Maria College for a two-day conference, focused on Kahui Ako leadership.
Raffle winners
The winners of the St Luke’s Parish raffle have been announced. Read on to discover the results.
Jazz Night featured artist – Hayley Kevern
Hayley Kevern is an outstanding pianist. She joined the senior Jazz Combo and Big Band last year and decided to continue this year. She says, ‘When you play as a group, it helps you improve your own musicianship. It also lets you appreciate how everyone playing their own part can contribute to creating something much better that you could do by yourself.’
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UNISS 2018
The UNISS 2018 netball tournament for top Secondary school teams, players, managers, umpires and coaches, was held at Harbourside Netball Centre in Mount Maunganui from Monday, September 3 Friday, September 7. This Upper North Island competition consisted of 120 teams playing each other to secure a placing in a grade for next season. The tournament allows schools to enter their top premier team to play two games of netball each day (four 10-minute quarters for one game) in four different grades, A, B, C and D. At the end of the week, the bottom teams of A, B and C grade move down a grade and the top teams from B, C and D move up for next year’s netball season. In A, B, and C grade, there were 32 different teams, and in D grade, there were 24 teams. Last year, Sancta Maria College’s premier team placed in the bottom 16 of B grade. This year’s team was determined to do better than that.
Meet Spheros
The Year 9 MAX class had the pleasure of experimenting with Spheros, a small robot which gained its name from its spherical shape. Discovering how these robots worked and using them was already a class favourite, as they had already learnt the basics of how to manoeuvre and operate the Spheros. Their new task was to investigate and explore the relationship between time, speed and distance.
Moment of glory for 7A and 8B
After an exciting season of netball, two junior SMNC (Sancta Maria Netball Club) teams placed 2nd in their category. The Year 7 Champs (7A team) and the Year 8 Flight 2 (8B team) were both at the HPNC (Howick Pakuranga Netball Centre) Prizegiving to be awarded their trophies.
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We have the winners of the Year 7 & 8 speech competition
The Year 7 & 8 speech finals were held on Thursday, with a range of different and interesting topics. Abigail Martis placed 1st in Year 7. She spoke about ‘Why kids should not have homework’. Hyebeen Park came 2nd with a speech about ‘Why we should smile and laugh’. Sarah McCormick and Alexandria Lazatin placed 1st equal in the Year 8 category. Sarah told us why we shouldn’t gossip and Alexandria spoke about equality and fairness in her speech about ‘Racism’.
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Sancta Maria College breaking the silence!
This Friday our school participated in the Day of Silence, which is all about breaking the silence around homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying. The event is organised by InsideOUT, an organisation which works to make schools safer for LGBTQ+ students. The theme of the 2018 Day of Silence is unlearning unconscious behaviours which marginalise LGBTQ+ students, in order to promote acceptance and inclusivity.
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Year 12 Biology Students visit Tiritiri Matangi Island
The sun had barely risen and most students were still at home, when around 40 Sancta Maria College students had already hopped on a bus and begun their ride to catch a ferry from Auckland city.
This school trip to Tiritiri Matangi Island was organised for the Level 2 Biology students to aid them in their end of year external exams. Having been studying about genetic variation and change, it was beneficial for the Year 12 biology students to discover how some species in New Zealand have evolved over time.
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