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Head boy, Maurice de Jesus (pictured third from right), has been working with student leaders from east Auckland schools to organise fundraising initiatives across the region. This included volunteer work with Auckland City Mission, packing food parcels.

Succs For You are going to sell completely customisable planted succulents in recycled cans suitable for anyone wanting a particular design, perfect for spicing up any room. This solves the issue of home décor being expensive and having a lack of variety. Consumers are able to personalise the product by choosing the size of can, the design and colour.

Saturday proved to be a difficult day for Sancta Maria Netball. However, all teams gave their best effort and put up a good fight! A highlight game from the weekend was that of SMC C8 vs SMC C9, with SMC C9 taking out the win 32-5. Both teams were short of players, with C8 playing with 5 players and C9 with 6. Despite this, the teams showed a spirited attacking and defensive game.

The winners of our Library Week murder mystery “The Curious Case of the Clockwork Cleaner” were announced and the guilty party identified. We had over 20 teams sign up to solve the mystery, and many of them assembled in the library to find out if they had solved the case and caught the killer.

Kudos to the Sancta netball teams. What a brilliant result from all teams with no losses this weekend. What a coincidence that all the three Year 8 teams scored a whopping 26 goals each! 7C and 7D played each other and it resulted in a tie. Well done teams!

On Saturday our 1st XV came up against our neighbours, Tangaroa College, in good conditions at Sancta Maria. With only 17 available players for the game the depth of the squad was always going to be tested against a physical team from Tangaroa.

Yesterday, Maori TV came visited the College to film three of our bands that played at Stand Up Stand Out.

Over the past couple of weeks, the Young Vinnies have been cooking up a storm as a part of their outreach programme.

A group of our Business Studies students have thought seriously about an age-old problem. How to recycle that old washing machine once it is past its use by date. Braydon Burton (Communications Director), Finn Taylor (CEO), Logan Butterworth (Production Director), James Sutherland (Chief Financial Officer) and Ethan Fox (Marketing Director) of Eco-Use think they might have come up with the answer to part of the problem.

It is the time of year that Sancta Maria College comes together as a faith and school community to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.