Congratulations to our 2024 Community prefects are Aita Ah Wa and Georgia Cuer. “We became community prefects to give back to others” – this is what motivated the community prefects to become prefects. We asked them a series of questions and a lot were hard for them to decide on an answer. The sentence we […]
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On 20 June 2024, a group of nine students from the Sancta Maria College Young Vinnies Hospice attended the annual Volunteer long service recognition lunch at Tōtara Hospice in Manurewa. The students acompanied by Dr Laux performed two songs as part of the ceremony. They proudly represented and introduced the school by singing Tenei te
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This year’s annual feast day was a most memorable one. For the 20th year anniversary, our most special mass was held at St Patrick’s Cathedral, presided by Bishop Stephen Lowe and Father Larry. It was a fantastic and momentous occasion, especially as it had been 10 years since our last visit to the Cathedral. This
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Special Character week for 2024 is set to be another exceptional week of celebrations. Monday, we have chalk art in the C Block Courtyard, accompanied by song requests. This together with the Kaitiakitanga prefects, is a reminder of the creation that God has called us to love and care for, just like he loved and
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Sancta Maria College Vinnies were treated to a guest speaker (Lucia, Youth Co-Ordinator for Vinnies) who came into talk to our students about food insecurity on Wednesday 15 May 2024, kindly arranged by our special Year 12 & 13 Young Vinnies leaders (Max, Jemma, Hannah & Charbel). Thank you to our leaders for arranging this
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As a junior school leader our role in the school is to support senior House Prefects in presenting assemblies, creating house activities, and helping prepare the auditorium and meeting places for events. Friday 10 May was a special day, because our group of junior school leaders were blessed in our Friday mass by Father Larry. This was a
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This year, the Sancta Maria Tōtara Hospice group mentored by Dr Laux is joining forces with the Sancta Maria College Young Vinnies community. This means more students can learn about the work Tōtara Hospice are doing for the South and South-East communities in Auckland. Tōtara Hospice mainly supports people of the community with life-limiting illnesses,
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On the chilly morning of Friday 3 May 2024, the Pompallier Candle was set ablaze, symbolising the start of the annual Pompallier Shield competition. This year, select students from Sancta Maria College and fifteen other Catholic schools in Auckland gathered to compete in various categories revolving around our Catholic faith. With the hosting school rotating
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‘You do you’, was the theme of our Year 8 retreat. On Friday of week 7, term 1, our Year 8 cohort came together for our retreat. The leaders were part of the NET team (national evagination team) and came to spend the day with us. Their goal was to give us confidence to choose
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Sancta Maria College’s Youth Ministry Group participated in the “Praise and Pizza” event during term 1 of 2024 hosted at St. Peter’s College, alongside 15 other Catholic schools from the Auckland Diocese. The event started with a special Mass led by St. Peter’s chaplain, involving different students from different colleges. After that, it was time
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