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For the third year running Santa Maria College is involved in the IGSSA Indigenous Round in both netball and hockey.

  The Santa Maria Science Department has some unusual pets – Goliath and Spiny Leaf Phasmids. They’ve been busy laying a large number of eggs. Did you know that baby stick [...]

Building of the new deck adjoining the boarders' dining room commenced last week with excavation works.  It is anticipated that the project will continue throughout Term 4 and the January [...]

Most parents of adolescent children would be aware of the online game, ‘Fortnite’. For many young people, the addictive nature of this game is having adverse effects on children’s behaviour and [...]

The Year 12 Biology students visited the Zoo on Monday afternoon, to further explore concepts being studied including; homeostasis, evolution and conservation through captive breeding.

In celebration of Boarding Week this week, we asked the Boarding Housemothers some questions to gain an insight into these special women, who care for your daughters when they are away from home. [...]

Congratulations to Chloe Thong (Year 7), who had been selected to dance at the Asia Pacific Dance Competitions in Singapore latest this year.

Five minutes with Ailsa Harris our Head of Science.

Our Year 5.5 Class have been studying “Santa Maria throughout the years” in Geography class. The girls have had the opportunity to view historic images of the College from 1939 to 2016. Their [...]

The College annual Winter Appeal was a huge success. Staff, students and parents responded with generosity and compassion to the call for much needed donations.

During Terms 1 and 2, twelve Year 10 dancers participated in rehearsals to prepare a dance for the ACHPER Dance Festival which took place at St Mary’s Anglican Girls School on Wednesday.

Our Social Justice Group ran a reflection afternoon where two guest speakers, Kathy Fagan and Sister Kaye Bolwell, came to speak to us about the complexity of forced marriage situations both in [...]

Our Year 6 students have been looking at the world as a village of 100 people, and looking at data trends over seven years. They were asked the question 'What areas in the village do you think [...]

The Year 12 Retreat concluded today. It is one of the most memorable events for students as they transition towards graduation.

The cross country season has now come to an end, with some excellent performances at the IGSSA event, our final competition for the year.

Spark6 is a program for Year 6 students, which encourages students to form an opinion and make decisions and then give evidence to support their point of view.

This week our Year 7 and Year 8 students have participated in Reflection Days run by Project Hatch.

This week our Year 7 students have been involved in the SEEK7 program. SEEK7 is a three-day Enhanced Learning Program for Year 7 students. The program is a mixture of skills sessions and work [...]

Santa Maria students received a number of awards last night at the Atwell Youth Art Awards and Year 12 student, Ava Gamblin has been accepted into the 25under25 Art Award and exhibition, run by [...]