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After weeks of studying the brain and its functions, two Year 8 classes had the opportunity to partake in an exciting activity: dissecting lambs’ brains! Facilitated by Mrs Krishna and Mrs Mistry, the students were divided into groups and given tools to assist with their experiment, including a scalpel and magnifying glass. Their first task […]

Super sprinter Marielle Venida has impressed again with her results from the New Zealand Track and Field Championships. Competing last week, Marielle ran an outstanding 11.92s in the Women Under-20 100m and 24.51s in the 200m, walking away with two individual golds. Commenting on her performance, Marielle said, “Overall, the competition itself was very exciting

Last Wednesday our Year 8s experienced what it was like to play soccer, but soccer with a difference – every player was inside a giant plastic bubble! The Bubble Football event took part in our school field, allowing Year 8s to get outside, have some fun and enjoy each other’s company. This activity brought out

The Year 11s have completed their Peer Support training and are raring to go! The training sessions were two full days last year and two after-school sessions this year. This covered various leadership skills and included writing a pepeha, a Maori personal introduction. The group is divided into teams and each team is allocated a

Monday was a thrilling day for the Year 7’s as they explored their first retreat at Sancta Maria College, which was led by the Year 13 Prefect Team. This memorable day enabled students to reconnect with God by understanding their uniqueness, importance in the community, their choices, and their own gifts. Each student had their

To welcome our newly appointed prefects as they begin leading the school in this new year, a Mass was held at St. Luke’s Church last Friday where Father Craig blessed our leaders. He prayed that they would guide others with aroha and lead the school by example. Parents, staff, and other Mass attendees joined Father

The Lenten season of making sacrifices and giving is back! For 2022, Sancta Maria College has intertwined Lent with Kaitiakitanga and God’s creation. When we think of making sacrifices for Lent, we tend to give up things we love the most. This year we are encouraging students to give up something that could benefit not

To mark the start of the season of Lent, we had two parts for our Ash Wednesday commemorations: the homeroom prayer and the Liturgy. During homeroom, we were informed that this year, Caritas’ theme for lent is, Building dreams together: Called to be Peacemakers. During Lent we can use this theme to focus our prayer

D Block was buzzing with excitement on Friday morning as the Year 7’s were about to have their very first sports day at Sancta Maria College. The day was managed by Bigfoot Adventures, who had some adventure-based learning activities planned. The first activity was to design a flag and come up with a team name.

Our annual Sancta Maria College pōwhiri and Opening Mass were done differently this year! Instead of the whole school being present, new staff and students were welcomed to the school through a reduced physical presence and via a Livestream video feed. We were unable to give our new staff and students the typical warm Sancta