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Last week the girls’ touch team represented the school at Macleans College. Over five touch games held at Macleans, the girls were playing for fifth place.

Auckland’s top secondary school athletes gathered at Mt Smart today under perfect weather for a track and field event. Students Casey Lototau, Zachary Saunders, Erica Lim, Laura Richardson and Abby Noble-Campbell represented Sancta Maria at the Auckland Secondary School Championships 2018. This was a long day for many athletes with some competing in multiple events in a very competitive environment, yet some outstanding results were achieved by our athletes. 

Today the whole school gathered to celebrate our Easter liturgy.
The event began with a beautiful performance of ‘Come to the Altar’ by the College Gospel choir as students entered the auditorium.

Sancta Maria College Enviro Team have an environmentally and economically sustainable solution to propose to the community of Sancta Maria College.

Sancta Maria College has chosen their representative team for the 2018 Readers Cup. The 5 students were chosen last Monday out of the 28 students competing, proving their reading prowess through answering a series of questions based on 3 novels and a poem they had been given to study.

The College Careers Evening will be held on Thursday 5 April from 6.30-8.30pm in the Auditorium. This evening is for all Year 10-13 students and parents/caregivers to
Provide an overview of the courses and industry sectors including the career and study options each can provide.

Last Thursday saw the Year 12 Geography class travel to Waitomo. The students visited the Ruakuri Cave. Here they learnt about the formation of rock structures and navigated the twisting passages of the caves. The students also had their first glimpse of glowworms here, but a closer encounter was soon to come with their visit to the Waitomo Cave.

An introduction to country music awaited interested students at lunch time on Tuesday as the College prepares to enter the annual Young Stars Country Music Awards.

The South Regional Schools’ Young Vinnies meeting was an evening of fun, networking and pizza. The meeting included the three Catholic schools in the South Auckland region: De La Salle College, McAuley High School and Sancta Maria College.

Art really does send you into a different world filled with creative flair and imaginative life size sculptures, one that our Year 11-13 art students got to experience last week.