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. 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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Nearing the end of the term the Year 9 retreat also known as the Encounter Day was run by the National Evangelisation Team. This event has been a yearly tradition for all year levels, allowing every student to reflect on their current progress and what they want to achieve in the coming year. This day
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Sancta Maria College students came together to support the Caring foundation and raised over $1000 by donating a dollar and wearing mufti on the 21 March 2024! The Caring foundation is a Catholic organisation who help the poor and spread the gospel – our generous donation will go a long way in supporting their cause.
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Our Special Character Prefects for 2024 are Ethan Karl and Abigail Martis. Ethan was particularly proud to be chosen as a special character prefect. He states his job, this year, includes “managing events and activities such as masses and retreats as well as helping the Service prefects in their duties.” In addition to helping ensure
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Year 7 retreat is the cohort’s first retreat at school and was held on 8 March 2024 in the auditorium. Leading the retreat was the NET group (National Evangelization Team) and was assisted by several senior prefects. The NET group have many volunteers trained to go around schools and parishes to teach them the love
The Year 13 cohort were treated to a sneak peak of what it would be like to be at a university lecture when Dr Kevin Ward (Theology lecturer) of the University of Otago gave a talk about the religious landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand via a web call in F Block, during March this year.
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