In remembrance of ANZAC Day on the 25 April, Sancta Maria College was invited to create a visual and informative display for the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RSA) Howick to exhibit in the Howick Library. This task integrated into our Year 10 Social Sciences unit for term one – ‘Serving the Empire […]
Year 10 Social Sciences ANZAC Day boards proudly displayed Read More »
On Wednesday 27 March 2024, Year 7 & 8 Pacifica students went on a trip to the Due Drop Centre in Manukau. As we came inside the Due Drop Centre, we were greeted and given an official welcome from the Pacifica Mamas. Once we were in the Foyer, the sisters explained to us the Pacific
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Congratulations to a number of Sancta Maria College students, who have put in hours of training in their given sports and have delivered the following personal successes within Athletics. The following students achieved the amazing results at the recent College Sport Auckland Secondary Schools Championships in March: Cesar Garcia Soto – Junior Boys: 1st 300m,
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Some of our students repeated last year’s hard work, again at the start of this year, eradicating moth plants from our school grounds. The students, in partnership with Pest Free Howick Ward managed to deal with moth plant on the bridge at Te Irirangi Drive. It makes a big difference to our community and school
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On Saturday 16 March 2024, we welcomed back former board and establishment members, proprietors, staff, students, and friends of the college to celebrate our 20th year. What a terrific turn-out it was. The staffroom was a buzz as people caught up with one another, connecting and sharing stories with lots of laughter. During formalities, we
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Last Thursday, a group of our Prefect Team attended a Leadership Conference at the Due Drop Centre, Manukau, hosted by GRIP. Around 300 delegates, representing 20 New Zealand schools, heard messages and expert advice on how to grow leadership at their kura. The experience was thoroughly enjoyable as well as highly valuable as our student
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Congratulations to an ex-Sancta Maria College student, Breanna Jury, who recently had her paper published in the Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2024). Working alongside Angela Lorusso during their final year of engineering, their research focused on harnessing the potential of large language models to generate worked examples for enhancing programming education. Even more thrilling,
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Join us for an afternoon/evening celebration on Saturday 16 March 2024 for an opportunity to tour our college, reconnect with ex students and staff, share canapés, light dinner, and enjoy guest speakers from past years. The order of the day will be: 3 – 5pm: Tour of our college, canapés, refreshments (cash bar) and opportunity
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We would like to wish everyone a safe and healthy summer holiday. However, we do know that the festive season and holidays brings about a lot of stress. Below are a few national support services and helplines which you can access if you need: In the case of an emergency, dial 111 You can get
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On 2 December 2023, Annette, Grace and Dr Laux attended a Christmas party at Percy Café, in Māngere where they had the honour in finally share the unique surprise parcels crafted during the year. Annette initiated the idea of repurposing yoghurt pots into charming hand-painted seedling pots. Each parcel included a sunflower seed, a pair
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