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Auckland’s premier secondary school music and dance competition, Stand up Stand Out, welcomed a whole lot of fire, passion, vibrancy, elegance and power to the stage on Wednesday. It was Day 1 of the dance heats and three dance groups from Sancta Maria College got the chance to step out and share their talents and culture, competing alongside nine other Auckland schools.

The Year 7 and 8s had their in-school mathex competition today. It was all action in the auditorium as the students raced to answer questions correctly.

On the 7 August, the Year 7 and 8 boys and girls Sancta Maria College netball teams competed at AMI (Auckland Netball Centre) in the 2018 South Eastern Zone Girls and Boys Netball Tournament. The day consisted of many South-Eastern schools playing each other in games of two 10-minute halves.

‘Protect our planet’ is the theme for Peace Week 2018. Our students will be involved in a number of activities promoting peace and looking at ways to care for planet earth. Being also Environment Week is a very happy coincidence.

Pacific Project 2018, an international trip run by UN Youth New Zealand, took seven high school students, myself included, to Pango Village, Vanuatu. This trip was special to us in the way that we didn’t tread lightly on the surface and see Vanuatu as tourists; instead, we delved deeper, forming friendships with the local people and their culture, speaking with their people of power and visiting the NGO’s. Ideas were challenged, opinions were altered, and we began to look at life from an entirely different vantage point.

From the 30 July to the 3 August, the Sports Committee hosted their first year-level competition. During week 2, Sarah, Holly, Grace, Samantha, Anna, and Caelan (Sports Committee members) ran the Year 7 multi-sport house competition at lunchtime on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday lunch.