Future10: A Great Success
Year 10s have had a busy few days learning about financial literacy and wellbeing and mental health strategies as part of the Future10 Enhanced Learning Program.
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News Blog
2019 Middle Years Award Winners
Congratulations to all the girls who were recognised at the Awards Night on Wednesday.
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Smores and Solar Ovens
Year 7 science students were challenged to research, design and create a solar oven capable of melting a chocolate smore (marshmallow sandwich) this week.
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First Stage of the College Master Plan Announced – Jennifer Oaten
A dedicated team has worked very closely with our Architects EIW in a comprehensive process over the past year to develop the College Master Plan 2019-2029 and we are delighted to share with you the outcome.
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Professor Sue Fletcher Speaks to Brain Stem Students
We were fortunate to have Professor Sue Fletcher from Murdoch University and three of her pHD students speak with Brain Stem students this week.
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Year 9 students have been immersed in Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens during their Transition Program from Middle Years to Senior Years.
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2019 Senior Years Award Winners
Congratulations to the Senior Years award winners!
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Mental Health Strategy Update
“To work together to ensure that all Santa Maria College students have the skillset to manage their wellbeing*, tackle challenges and thrive in school and life.” *Wellbeing = emotional, mental, physical, spiritual and social wellbeing
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Year 8s Thrive on Explore8
It’s been exciting times for the Year 8s over the past two weeks. Their involvement in Explore8 means they have been off the traditional timetable for ten days and working on their own design-thinking, extended project.
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What Are You Thankful For?
The 2019 school year is quickly coming to an end and it’s a great time to reflect back over the year and think about the things we are thankful for. We asked some of our staff to share what they are thankful for.
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Exploring Reconciliation With Ingrid Cumming
Ingrid Cumming spoke to Year 8 students at Explore8 about her business, NoongarPedia, innovation and reconciliation. She was inspiring and offered a unique perspective to the program.
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Study Buddies Celebrate a Successful Year
In celebration of a successful year, the girls involved in the Study Buddies Co-curricular group enjoyed a thank you morning tea today.
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IGNITE Students Explore Their Creative Side
Have you heard of the beautiful city of Zele, or maybe Os Coinne? This term, Year 7 IGNITE students have been exploring their creative side and designing their own Fantasy fiction.
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Year 10 Touch Football Gala
The College oval was full of colour, excitement, cheering, umpiring calls, music and fun on Monday afternoon with the inaugural Year 10 Touch Football Gala.
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Channel 10 Journalist Visits Year 5 Classes
Rebecca Perrie, a journalist from Channel 10 spoke to the Year 5 classes about the differences between the language used in print and spoken news.
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Students and Staff Training as Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Next Year, 41 Year 12 students and two staff members will be commissioned as Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion at our College Opening Mass.
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Students Create Indigenous Mural
As part of Santa4Santa day, the YARN co-curricular group organised a local Indigenous artist to come to the College to help the group create a mural in the fitness centre.
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Year 7 Activity Day
Year 7 students from Santa Maria and Aquinas College enjoyed a fun afternoon of games last week, giving students the opportunity to develop new friendships.
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Year 6 Students Reflect and Celebrate
In celebration of the end of primary school, our Year 6 girls enjoyed a day of celebration and reflection last week. This rite of passage into high school has become a tradition here at Santa Maria.
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Students Design Their Own Quilts
Year 10 Fashion & Textile classes have been working hard on a design and production task for the last 12-weeks, starting in Term 3.
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Welcome to Western Australia!
Students from the Santa Maria Seeds of Justice leadership group attended a ‘Welcome to WA’ picnic for refugee families and hosted by the St Vincent de Paul Society.
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Santa Students On Exchange
This year, 11 French and Italian Language students in years 10 and 11 will be traveling to Italy or France on exchange. Students will be spending 6 or 8 weeks immersing themselves in the Italian or French language and culture.
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Code Quest
Santa Maria College Year 6 students have taken their coding skills very seriously by entering the international code quest competition hosted by Grok Learning
IGSSA welcomes Australian Rules Football to its Sporting Competition
With over 1.64million people playing Australia Rules Football each year and 530,166 of them being female, it is no wonder there was a need for the introduction of Australian Rules Football to our IGSSA competition.
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Santa4Santa Day
Santa4Santa day is a day of Christmas celebrations to fundraise for those less fortunate. The money raised is combined with the donations and items collected for the Christmas Appeal and is donated to St Vincent de Paul, the Shopfront and St Patrick’s in Fremantle.
Academic Triathlon – McAuley Shield
In this exciting Interhouse event, teams of intellectual heavyweights from each Homeroom, will battle it out against the other Houses.
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Students Improvise their Way into the 2020 McAuley Shield
After months of preparation through workshops and team meetings, we came together on Monday and Tuesday night to compete in the House Drama competition.
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Mentor Project Celebration
The SMCOGA love to celebrate friendship and connection and this is what we did at the Mentoring Celebration.
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Sarah Takes on New Role
Sarah Ditchburn is excited to be stepping into the role of Dillon House Coordinator for 2020
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Santa Maria Wins School Award at Lester Youth Awards
Congratulations to Alice Handcock, Year 9, who was a finalist in the 2019 Lester Youth Art Awards. Santa Maria College were awarded the School Award in the Years 7 – 9 category,
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