Sharing our picture books
Today a group of selected students from 8DNN and 8CLE read picture books they have created to Room 9 at Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School.
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Year 7 Netball boys take out the win
On the 7 August, the Year 7 and 8 boys and girls Sancta Maria College netball teams competed at AMI (Auckland Netball Centre) in the 2018 South Eastern Zone Girls and Boys Netball Tournament. The day consisted of many South-Eastern schools playing each other in games of two 10-minute halves.
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Environment Week off to Green start
Green list MP Chloe Swarbrick visited the school Monday lunch time to get Environment Week off to a flying start. Ms Swarbrick is the youngest politician to enter Parliament since Marilyn Waring in 1975.
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A commitment to peace is a commitment to our planet
‘Protect our planet’ is the theme for Peace Week 2018. Our students will be involved in a number of activities promoting peace and looking at ways to care for planet earth. Being also Environment Week is a very happy coincidence.
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“You will learn more from them than they will ever learn from you.”
Pacific Project 2018, an international trip run by UN Youth New Zealand, took seven high school students, myself included, to Pango Village, Vanuatu. This trip was special to us in the way that we didn’t tread lightly on the surface and see Vanuatu as tourists; instead, we delved deeper, forming friendships with the local people and their culture, speaking with their people of power and visiting the NGO’s. Ideas were challenged, opinions were altered, and we began to look at life from an entirely different vantage point.
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Year 7 Multi-sports Sports Committee House Competition
From the 30 July to the 3 August, the Sports Committee hosted their first year-level competition. During week 2, Sarah, Holly, Grace, Samantha, Anna, and Caelan (Sports Committee members) ran the Year 7 multi-sport house competition at lunchtime on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday lunch.
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Young artists’ work to be published
Congratulations to Ana Ganias and Dennis Tam (8DNN) who have had art work selected for publication in Toitoi.
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Year 9 and 10 Mathex competition
The Sancta Maria College Year 9 and 10 mathex competition was held last week in the auditorium. Teams of four competed in their homeroom classes. They had to answer a series of maths word problems in 30 minutes.
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Q&A with Tanya Murray
Tanya Murray is an athletics champion. She is a budding Olympian who ever since she picked up a javelin fell in love with the sport. Trained by former kiwi Javelin thrower and Dame Valerie Adams’ former coach, Kirsten Hellier, she is on a quest to succeed and dreams of competing on the world stage at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. To understand her achievements you have to delve into her story. This Q&A not only gives you the background tohow she got her start in athletics but it contains incredible insight into how a girl from Alfriston is making it big, balancing school life, work and sport and making her family proud.
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Wow! These cats can really swing
Yesterday lunch time staff and students were treated to an amazing performance from our premier jazz combo.
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