Congratulations to our Mountain Biking squad who competed at Waitawa Regional Park last weekend! U13 – Jason Cooper U14 – Bostyn Strachan and James Darby U15 – Lucas Cooper U17 – Reuben Cooper Jason clinched 2nd place, Lucas 4th and in his age category, Reuben placed 6th. The next race is on the 9th of […]
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Peer support leaders are back on track visiting Year 7 and 8 homerooms again after putting their valued work on hold for the duration of the Covid-19 lockdown. The Year 11 leaders are organised into groups of about five and each group has a Year 7 homeroom which they will continue to visit every Friday
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Over 40 tertiary education providers are confirmed including all eight New Zealand universities, plus a wide range of polytechnics, Wananga and private tertiary providers. Attendees will enter into a virtual ‘exhibition hall’ and can browse through the participating providers, visiting their virtual stands and engaging in live chats with representatives from each institution. Just like
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Over the last two weeks, keen and green fingers have been busy working in the Butterfly Garden and the Vegetable Gardens to restore the valuable natural resources the College has on site. During lockdown, these areas became overgrown with weeds. The Butterfly Garden aims to replenish the decreasing number of pollinators, especially butterflies who play
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Drum roll, please…The winners of the Readers Cup 2020 are Lucas Cooper (9LIS), Rory Quiding (9LIS), Piper Hurren (9LIS), Joshua Araos (9GNS) and Averill Realon (9GNS)! Congratulations to all! Mrs O’Rorke picked a variety of texts for this year’s Readers Cup. These comprised of two novels – Rocco and The Giver, a short story –
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Oscar was surprised to be selected for this prefect role feeling grateful that the school gave him the opportunity to give back to the community. Throughout Oscar’s time at the college, he has involved himself in various sports like badminton and basketball. He has had his fair share of commitment in these sports where he
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In this series of articles, we get an inside look at our 2020 prefects- their backgrounds, roles and ambitions. Today we are featuring our Service Prefects, Francesca Abesamis and Owen Tamayo. Being part of College 1 Netball, Jiu Jitsu, swimming, athletics and basketball, Francesca states that her sporting hobbies have been a huge part of
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Level 2 chemistry students sat their first chemistry internal last week where they had to carry out a practical investigation to calculate the concentration of a consumer product which was white vinegar using quantitative analysis. Their internal assessment was worth 4 credits and was done in three parts. The first part was the calculations. They
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A group of keen students joined Karl, one of our very own Kaitiakitanga prefect leaders last week for a Kahoot quiz to test their knowledge on the bin system used at the College. The participants learnt a lot about being Tidy Kiwis by answering questions about what waste goes into which bins. At Sancta Maria
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Sancta Maria College is an Enviroschool. The Enviroschools kaupapa wants to create a healthy, peaceful and sustainable world through learning and taking action together. The five guiding principles that underpin the Enviroschools journey are: Empowered Students, Learning for Sustainability, Māori Perspectives, Respect for the Diversity of People and Cultures, and Sustainable Communities. If you want
