On Tuesday the Santa Maria athletics team competed at the IGSSA Athletics Carnival. The girls had set themselves some big goals for the 2017 season and the mood around the team was extremely positive and enthusiastic.
During Mercy Day, all of the boarding students wore an orange hair ribbon, which is the colour of the Leukaemia foundation. The girls processed into the McDonald Building together during Mass this morning as a mark of remembrance for Linda Bulloch, Head of Boarding, who passed away twelve months ago.
This morning, four Year 5/6 students represented SMC at the 2017 South-Central Regional Schools Interschool Spelling Bee. The girls were the top ranked students from a spelling competition held in school and went on to compete today against students from five primary schools.
The annual Music Showcase performance took place on Saturday night in the McDonald Building and involved the combined talents of …
Between 14 August and 21 August as part of Science Week activities, students in Years 7 – 10, participated in the Education Perfect Science competition, where they were tested on all elements of science from the Australian Curriculum.
Five minutes with Ailsa Harris our Head of Science.
Congratulations to Anna Monaghan (Year 10) who has been selected in the Western Australian swimming team,
Our 2018 leaders have just been elected! This week we sat down with our Head Border and Deputy Head Border to find out all about them.
Congratulations to Kate Collins, Georgia Vinci and Megan Cranley who will represent the Melville Water Polo Club at Nationals in the school holidays.
Strive9 is a service based social justice program for our Year 9 students. Over the course of the term, the girls have been preparing service programs in their Homeroom groups. This week all their planning and hard work came to fruition. On Thursday, the girls implemented their projects.
Congratulations to Year 10 students, Anna Monaghan and Kara Broadbridge who competed in the State Championships last weekend. Both girls had a great meet and have been selected for the state team. The girls will compete in Canberra later this month.
Congratulations to Ice Skater, Isabel Gaglia (Year 10) who has been chosen, for the fourth year, to represent Western Australia
We are really proud to introduce to you our new Middle Years Leaders for 2018. When all our Year 7s are settled in next year, their elections will take place.
On Saturday 2 September, two of our competitive cheerleading teams the SMC Comets (Level 2) and SMC Gravity (Level 1) competed at the Australian All Star Cheerleading Federation (AASCF) State Championships at HBF Arena. Both teams have worked tirelessly to perfect and upgrade their routines in just five weeks. The girls in both teams were highly committed to creating their amazing routines.
On Wednesday 6 September, 13 students and two teachers from Irene McCormack Catholic College visited Santa Maria as part of a five day pilgrimage they are undertaking to commemorate the significance of Sister Irene McCormack.
Our 2018 leaders have just been elected! This week we sat down with our Head Girl and Deputy Head Girl to find out all about them.
How can our daughters be so connected, and yet often feel so utterly, utterly alone? That irony surfaced in the research of my book Being 14: Helping fierce teens become awesome women. Interviews with almost 200 of them showed they were permanently connected, living in a world of touch screen and wifi, of devices and apps, of television on demand, music in the pocket, and instant gratification. And that was what they saw as the divider between their generation, and that of their parents.
Five minutes with Stephen King our Head of Humanities and Social Sciences.
On Wednesday evening, 104 Year 10 students and ten staff members enjoyed an evening out to see Bell Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth
It’s been a very busy week yet again here at the College.  There is never a dull moment.  Enjoy 🙂
Today, Dillon spoke to all students at Santa Maria College in Years 10 to 12. He presented a graduated program that focused on the needs of each year group.
The Year 7 Father Daughter Evening was a great success. The Dads and Daughters shared a delicious dinner and then the dads learnt how to do their daughter’s hair. There were so many beautiful ponytails, buns and plaits. Some dads were also treated to creative hair do’s by their daughters!
Our Year 5 and 6 IGNITE students had a great time today, participating in a BASF Chemistry Lab at Curtin University
“It was already getting dark when the car stopped in front of a big cream coloured building overlooking the Swan River. As I got out, I could not help but notice the picturesque location of my new school, Santa Maria Ladies’ College in Attadale.”
Year 5 and 6 classes had a fun mathematical incursion on Wednesday as a part of the numeracy day festivities.
Our Year 7 Religious Education classes are currently learning about the Sacrament of Baptism.
Congratulations to Grace Foster (Year 6) who has been selected in the U/13 WA State Hockey team.
Our Year 5 students use their creative talents while learning about perimeter in maths.
Santa Maria College has volunteered to be a trial school for online NAPLAN, assisting with the rollout and helping to ‘iron out’ any potential problems.
It’s been a very busy week here at the College with Purple Bra Day, Science Day, Book Week, Year 11 Father Daughter Dinner just to name a few. We hope you enjoy looking back over the week.
