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Throughout the year, Dr Laux and a small group of very dedicated students kindly donated their time during lunch to help produce small gardening kits to be donated to 200 volunteers working at Tōtara Hospice, Manurewa. The project started at the end of 2022, when Annette Li was inspired by her work in the butterfly […]

The 1st XI Girls Football team have been training hard this year, with weekly sessions on a Monday and scheduled games on Wednesdays.  All their hard work has paid off, as they advanced into the playoffs for the top four in our 2023 league season. Special mention to the four Year 13s who had a

Youth week is a week full of creativity, energy, and passion for young people from all over New Zealand. It features a wide range of events designed to inspire and empower young people and create opportunities to express themselves while connecting with others in the community.   Throughout Youth Week, our school collaborated with Howick Youth

Nau mai, haere mai!  On a frosty Friday morning, the Year 13 Geography class took an almost 3-hour drive down to Rotorua – New Zealand’s geothermal ‘hotspot’.   In class, the students learnt about tourism development in Rotorua. Before starting their research internal assessment, they studied the temporal changes of Rotorua’s facilities, infrastructure, attractions, regulators, and

To celebrate our school’s charism, the Special Character and Service Prefects organised Special Character Week for Sancta Maria College which was celebrated from 22-28 May. The week consisted of different events every day to embrace the special character our school takes great pride in.    On Monday in F Block, students were invited to help paint

On 16 May 2023, our senior drama classes had the privilege of watching Witi’s Wahine at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. This experience was great for our drama students to take notes for future assessments, including an epic theatre unit that both Year 12 and 13s are doing this term. “…I remember, three generations of women

On Wednesday 17 May 2023, two teams of senior students from Sancta Maria College participated in the North Island Ethics Olympiad. The Ethics Olympiad is where teams engage with each other and with students from other schools on interesting and relevant ethical questions such as art, national duty, medicine, neurology and governmental control. Students work

Thank you to everyone who bought tickets to the raffle, raising funds for our school production, Mamma Mia!  The winners were drawn on 1 June 2023 and are: 1st – Allan Ah Kau won the Gaming chair, headphones and mouse. 2nd – Laura Marshall won the lawnmower (see photo above). 3rd – Gabriel Oliver won the