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Pulled from their warm beds and into the chilly morning, the Year 13 students began their very last Sancta Maria College retreat with a beautiful sunrise Mass on Eastern Beach.

Today the student sports committee organised and ran a sports day for the Year 7s. The goal is for the younger students to experience a range of sporting activities in order to help build positive relationships within the Homerooms.

With the sun out and shining bright, the senior tag players from Sancta Maria College arrived at the Ngati Otara Park ready to put their practice into action and have some fun.

At the end of this week’s lunch time Mass some of our students and teachers who are heading off to Japan next week received a special blessing from Fr Craig. The Y13 travelers were absent as they were on their Retreat Day where they would have received many personal blessings of their own.

‘Keep Watch With Me’ was the theme of the 2018 Young Vinnies Leaders’ Camp. Three of our school’s Young Vinnies Leaders were fortunate enough to attend this camp and to learn the essence of what it was to be an effective leader.

After being diagnosed with leukaemia from the radiation, Sadako’s friend told her to fold origami paper cranes in the hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish. Her wish was simply to live. This started the 1000 paper crane world children’s peace movement. It has become a powerful symbol for ‘life, hope and peace’ for all. This is how the Paper Crane Project started.

In response to the recent mass school shooting in Parkland Florida, Sancta Maria College students and teachers came together to show their support for those students and families impacted and to raise awareness about gun violence in the United States.

In a happy mood we entered the courtyard. The intense heat and flies seemed happy to greet us and seemed to acknowledge that a new snack had arrived. A sign read that Auckland zoo has been running successfully for 96 years and was opened on 22 December, 1922 by the Governor General and the Admiral of the Navy. We passed through the Asia section and assembled by the Red Panda and Otter enclosures. A welcoming speech quickly sorted out the rules and what’s in our best interests when visiting an enclosure. Then, after getting into our groups we quickly marched off in high spirits.

Sancta Maria College student Angelo Matanguihan (3rd from right in front row) represented the Auckland U17 Boys Premier basketball team as they were crowned “Easter Slam” Division 1 Champions by defeating Harbour A 49-43 in an intensely contested final at the North Shore Events Centre over the weekend.

We need your help to accommodate 12 students. 

We will be welcoming and hosting students from Lycée Blaise Pascal, a Catholic, co-ed college in Noumea, New Caledonia for 5 nights from Sunday afternoon May 6th until Friday May 11th 2018. We require 12 families for 4 boys and 8 girls, aged 17 and 18 years.