A part of our school’s 40 hour famine committee were incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to attend a Famine Planning Session with one of World Vision’s 40 Hour Famine Youth ambassadors: Alyssa. The 40 Hour Famine is a way for people to get involved in fundraising and supporting World Vision’s efforts, while learning about […]
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A dream held by many has finally come to reality! St Luke’s parish, once congregating in the Sancta Maria College auditorium has finally got a place to call home, St Luke’s Church. The new church is located behind the college and will be a place not only for the primary, college and parish to congregate
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The international students of SMC went on a trip on the 7th of April 2021 to Rainbow’s End. They left at 9:30am and the fun journey began from there. It was such an amazing experience for all students who participated. Many students tried every ride there, which was really good. The Fear fall, Invader, Bumper
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Over a weekend in March, a group of year 11 and 12 students from Sancta Maria College attended the Auckland Model United Nations, a massive regional event of over 500 attendees, held at Auckland University. Run by UN Youth New Zealand, AMUN is an immersive 2 day event simulating life as a United Nations delegate.
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Excellent Overall Results Sancta Maria College has a tradition of high achievement in NCEA endorsements (Merit and Excellence) and last year’s results were no exception. Here are the NCEA pass rates for 2020: NCEA Level 1 – 97.2% NCEA Level 2 – 100% NCEA Level 3 – 94.4% These results are very strong for the
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Our amazing Festival Orchestra held its first performance of the year for Sancta Maria Primary School. We had musicians ranging from Years 7 to 13 that played all four sections of the orchestra (percussion, woodwind, strings and brass). They performed the opening number, ‘O du lieber Augustin’, which was incredibly executed. Exceptional enthusiasm from the
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On Saturday afternoon, three of our Young Vinnies leaders, Abby, Alexa and Teresa attended the Vinnies Commissioning Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral. There were 14 other secondary schools present with passionate and kind representatives from each. The theme of the mass was Rediscovering Fire, so the leaders were urged to go forth and ‘be the
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The week following Easter Sunday, Sancta Maria College dedicated our daily 12 pm Magnum Silencio to the Devotion of the Divine Mercy, as the Divine mercy feast day was on the 11th of April. Initiated by Sydney Causer, each day a speaker would pray a decade of the chaplet of Divine Mercy on the school
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Students enjoyed a fun mufti day this Thursday. Students were encouraged to wear mufti to school and donate a gold coin to help fundraise money for a brand new grand piano, which will feature in our beautiful new church! The piano will be a lovely addition to our stunning church. A total of $1441 was
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With help of Miss Vercoe and Mrs Kilpatrick, a handful of some of the junior school’s best and hardworking students have been selected to represent the junior school and mirror the year 13 prefects. Read below to find out the roles and assigned students! Service – Jonarren Pulevaka and Emily Raukura Well-Being – Anson Ip
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