Blog post 1: Saturday 29 September Written by Romy O’Keeffe Johannesburg: Constitution Hill, art Africa, Apartheid museum Today we started out relatively early – Emily and I were up at 7:00am. We then all then met up as
2 October 2018
Congratulations to our Superstar Coders of Year 6 who have just been named joint winners of NSW Tech Girls Movement 2018 competition. There were over 1000 entries in Australia including four teams from Santa Sabina College. The Year 6 Superstar Coders – Madeline Douglas, Rochelle Dias, Bronte Sprotte, Su Yee
10 September 2018
I write to inform you that Dr Herrett has advised the College Board that she has decided to retire as Principal at the end of the 2019 school year. By that time, Dr Herrett will have served as our Principal for seven years and together with her previous
6 September 2018
Santa Sabina College topped the state in six out of 11 categories in this week’s 2018 Investigating with Mathematics competition run by the Mathematical Association of NSW Inc! We congratulate the following students for their outstanding wins, “First in State”: Year 1 Carr/McKelvey class for “War on Waste” Year
22 August 2018
World first in music Elizabeth Younan of the Class of 2011 has been awarded a fully funded position at the prestigious postgraduate music school, Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia USA. Elizabeth is the first female Australian composer to attend, and credits her early music education at Santa Sabina as being
16 August 2018
As many as 120 students from Years 2 to 6 at Santa Sabina College performed in the IPSHA Performing Arts Festival at the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday 15 August. The audience were delighted by the sounds of the Liturgy Ensemble, Advanced Trio, Primary Years Advanced Taiko Ensemble, Combined Band
16 August 2018
Every two weeks the students of Santa Sabina’s Middle and Senior Years enjoy in-depth, immersive activities to augment their learning and animate their College experience. Some of the activities have been part of Santa Sabina life for decades, but have evolved as part of Deeper Learning Days to include new
13 August 2018
The students in Middle Years Leadership team are working together to raise awareness of global issues within their College community. They work with students in the Middle Years to solve problems and to be a voice for their peers. The team is led by the Middle Years Captain, Elena Frigo
2 August 2018
On Sunday 29 July the entire Santa Sabina College Dance team attended the Ultimate Dance Challenge at Pacific Hills Christian School. Each of the teams performed extremely well with very strong results across the day. The Infants dance team performed first, with many of our students performing on the stage
31 July 2018
One of our Santa Sabina IB Diploma “Trailblazers” – Patricia Schwarzkopf – answered our questions on how the Programme is going. The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme started at Santa this year. Which Diploma subjects are you taking? I have chosen, standard level: Mathematics, Italian and History, and higher level:
20 July 2018
Our Primary Years Italian co-curricular activity, Cucina Italiana (Italian Kitchen), commenced last term, with an impressive 101 students expressing interest in joining the weekly lunchtime cooking sessions. The 15 students selected from Years 3, 4 and 5 have begun learning how to prepare some traditional Italian cuisine from scratch. They
18 July 2018
Four Year 8 students from Santa Sabina College have won Best High School in the School Science Project Competition run by the NSW Health Department’s Sydney Local Health District. The competition encourages students to get thinking about what it means to be healthy. The theme was: Imagine. Transform. Lead.
4 July 2018