Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, passed away peacefully on Easter Monday 21 April 2025, at the age of 88 years, following ongoing health complications related to his lungs and heart. As the spiritual leader of over 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide, the Pope serves not only as the Bishop of Rome, but […]
Waka Ama On Tuesday 29 April 2025, our Year 7-10 Kapa Haka students and Year 10-11 students, learning Māori language, had the extraordinary opportunity to go on a fantastic trip ‘Waka Ama’ facilitated by Ocean Blue Sports Club at Okāhu Bay in Auckland. You may be wondering what ‘Waka Ama’ means – it is a
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On Wednesday 2 April 2025, Sancta Maria College’s Kapa Haka students had the amazing opportunity to visit ASB Polyfest held at the Manukau Sports Bowl. This annual event gave these students an opportunity to be exposed to competitive level Kapa Haka, with the aim of helping enhance their future performance skills. We all started off
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On Thursday 10 April 2025 — a perfect, sunny day that marked an exciting occasion for our Year 7 and 8 students. With a mix of nerves and excitement, they set off to St Cuthbert’s College to represent our school in the annual Kids’ Lit Quiz. The competition brought together 75 schools from across Auckland.
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During the final week of term 1, some students from the Enviro Committee had the opportunity to volunteer and work with Sea Cleaners NZ, an organisation that works to clear rubbish off New Zealand’s coastlines and waterways. In 2002 alone, they collected over 15 million litres of rubbish, helping to protect the marine wildlife and
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Sancta Maria College’s environment committee is proud to announce that with the effort of many students, we have collected an amazing 3251 moth pods as of 7 April 2025. This is well over our original goal of 1000 and was made up of more than five expeditions in and around our school, after school hours.
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On Tuesday 1 April 2025, a group of students participated in a MITO (Motor Industry Training Organisation) bus tour were provided valuable insight into the diverse career opportunities within the automotive industry. The first stop was Giltrap Prestige, where students had the unique opportunity to explore luxury vehicles and tour the state-of-the-art facilities, including the
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Three of our Symphonia players attended a workshop in conducting mid-March at the Somervell Church in Remuera. Working with the Bach Musica orchestra and choir, the course was led by conductor Rita Paczian. Our Performing Arts Music Prefect Martina Sanchez was joined by two of our Year 8 Music Leaders, Joanna Ma and Katherine Chiang.
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Our 2025 school production, In the Heights is in full rehearsals and the crew are set to enter the Due Drop Events Centre on Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 7pm in their Four Winds Theatre. There are three remaining shows, after opening night, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (finale) at 7pm. Tickets can be purchased
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During week 7, all Year 8 students went to the Auckland Botanic Gardens as part of their science unit. At the Botanic Gardens we worked in groups, planted succulents, learned about plant adaptations, had a great adventure and lots of fun! For our first session, we learnt about the life cycle of plants and how
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