Navigating Life’s Challenges: Alternative Learning Days
Along with camp, our Year 7s participated in the Alternative Learning Days, an extension of the Year 7 transition to high school program.
ProblemSolving
Achievers’ Club: Recognising Academic Excellence
148 girls from Years 8-12 gathered for Achievers’ Club lunches to celebrate and acknowledge their outstanding efforts in Semester 2, 2022.
Weekly Wrap Up: Term 4, Week 8, 2022
In our last wrap up of the year, you’ll see photos from the Awards Night, Future10, Reptile Incursion, Year 9 Camp, and more!
Happy Campers
Year 9 Camp gives students the opportunity to work with different people, widen their circle of friends and work through their fears.
STEngineering: All Things Forces, Friction & Gravity
Year 7 STEngineering students were tasked with designing a mini golf course, which needed to include at least two obstacles.
Weekly Wrap Up: Term 4, Week 6, 2022
This week, we had the annual Santa4Santa Day, House Drama Competition, Year 7 Orientation Day, and lots more!
IGNITING Their Passion
IGNITE is our Gifted and Talented program which focuses on developing skills rather than just content knowledge.
Marianne Adds Social Value to WAs Mining Sector
To put it simply, Marianne and her team focus on commercial partnerships through both a communities and innovation lens for BHP.
Weekly Wrap Up: Term 4, Week 5, 2022
This week, we had the Year 6 Celebration Day, Interhouse Academic Triathlon, Golden Girls’ Luncheon, and more!
Weekly Wrap Up: Term 4, Week 4, 2022
This week saw some exciting events, including the middle school production performance, and the art and design parade and exhibition!
Weekly Wrap Up: Term 4, Week 3, 2022
This week, we had the Music Tribute Night, Seeds of Justice conference, SLC inaugural dinner and meeting, House Drama rehearsals, and more!
Introducing… The Santa Maria College Podcast
Once a month, we’ll be sitting down with members of our community, who are contributing to making the world a better place.
Young Physicists Win Gold & Silver
Congratulations to Year 10 students Annika, Mackenzie, Emily, Grace and Sanjana, who recently competed in the Junior Young Physicist Tournament.
Charge Around Australia
Students learned about the Charge Around Australia project, which highlights the future of sustainable power generation for transport.
Spark6: Creating Positive Change with Technology
As part of Spark6, our Year 6s have been exploring ways they can use technology to create positive change in areas they are passionate about.
Professional Learning: Stimulating Thinking & Generating Ideas
Before the return of students, our staff engaged in a day of professional learning, in which they further developed their expertise.
Another Semester of Success: The National Computer Science Schools Challenge
Once again, Santa Maria has produced some wonderful results in the National Computer Science Schools Challenge this Semester.
BrainSTEM Students’ Focus on Neuroscience
BrainSTEm students have been focussing on neuroscience. This week they enjoyed a hands-on workshop with guests from Murdoch University.
Resilience, Teamwork and Courage
Year 10 Outdoor Ed classes headed off on a hiking expedition to the Augusta area last week, putting the skills they’d learned in class into action.
Girls Try A Trade
For the second year, some of our Year 10 students took part in the Try A Trade program, where they get a taste of the construction industry.
Robocup 2022
Thirteen students from Years 6 – 8 entered the 2022 Western Australian State RoboCup competition at Curtin University last weekend.
Seek7: Exploring Clean Water and Sanitation
The theme of Seek7 is sustainability and looks at the importance of caring for our planet and the resources we rely on, including water.
Alicia Awarded Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs Award
It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Alicia on receiving the Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs Award for the Zonta Club Perth.
Extending Our Maths Students
Maths Enrichment Club is a program giving talented maths students opportunities to extend their knowledge through competition and exploration.
Northcott Sisters: Sugar Coat It
After seeing a gap in the market for last-minute gifts, Northcott sisters Holly (2015) and Hannah (2011) created their empire, Sugar Coat It.
Understanding the Solar System
Students in Year 5 have been studying Earth and Space Sciences, through a collaboration between Science, Design & Technologies, and English.
Year 6 River Explorers
As part of their Eco Warriors unit, the girls (aka River Explorers!), headed down to the Swan River foreshore for some science observations.
Year 6: Solving Big Problems
Spark6 is part of our Enhanced Learning Program with a technology focus that develops the 3Cs – critical thinking, creative thinking, and collaboration.
Fearless5: Bringing Birds Back to Santa Maria
For their Fearless5 projects this year, Year 5 students decided to investigate how they could bring more native birds back to the College. They came up with some amazing ideas.
Sailing Around Up North
Our Year 11 Outdoor Education class spent part of their holidays sailing around the beautiful waters of Shark Bay.