All Things Bright and Beautiful
Our annual gala concert in the Sydney Town Hall featured more than 500 musicians, singers and dancers from Santa Sabina, performing to a sell-out audience. Here are a few minutes of highlights.
21 June 2022
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There is no place like the Ethics Olympiads
Congratulations to our Ethics Olympiads Middle School Gold medallists who qualified for the International Ethics Olympiads. They were one of 36 qualifying teams participating in the international final. The students engaged in impressive ethical discourse in topics such as the ‘right to be forgotten on the internet’, ‘(Un)Charitable donations’ and ‘The
16 March 2022
Little Big Idea Competition national finalist
This National Australian Competition promoted Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths learning, and championed creative thinking. It encouraged students to create innovative ideas to help solve real-world problems that will shape the future, that they themselves will live through. One little idea is all it takes! Students had to generate
15 March 2022
Santa at the farm
Year 1 went on their first school excursion in early 2022 – an exciting visit to the farm!
14 March 2022
Air Bee & Bees
Mathematics through enquiry Year 3 discovered they could design and make bee hotels for the native bees around the school native garden. Their teacher, Luke Carr, explained how the children love to learn about sustainability in a fun, engaging and hands-on way: After investigating the ecosystem in and around our
6 July 2021
Silver medals for ethics team
A team of Year 10 Santa girls has won Silver in the Senior High School Ethics Olympiad. The students will represent Australia in the international final on 23 July, competing against teams from NZ, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Canada. The Ethics Olympiad provides students with a creative vehicle for
6 July 2021
Drama risk takers!
Improvisation and Theatresports develop the creative confidence of young actors to be risk takers and to explore the art of storytelling. Year 8 Drama was lucky enough to work all day on 26 March 2021, with Impro. Australia, the home of Theatresports® in Sydney. The students watched professional actors improvise
29 March 2021
Communicating COVID updates to adolescents – a novel idea for a novel virus
Today is the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the theme is ‘Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19’. We are thrilled to announce that five Year 11 students from Santa Sabina College have come up with a prize-winning solution to
11 February 2021
ENCORE nomination
Warmest congratulations to Mariahna Mastro whose HSC Music 2 core composition was nominated for ENCORE, the NSW Education Standards Authority showcase for exceptional works. Mariahna’s piece, Recordare, Iesu (Remember, Jesus), is a choral piece for eight voices, inspired by a Latin inscription on the ceiling of Salzburg Cathedral which Mariahna
15 December 2020
Interior Design award winner
Antonia Moulos, who has just finished Year 12, has won the Interior Design category of the prestigious Bright Awards 2020. Antonia entered her HSC Major Work, Rehabilitation Facility for Young Australians – age-appropriate housing for young people with severe disabilities and complex needs who are too often placed into aged-care
10 December 2020
ICT explorer state winner!
Inez Crosby of Year 8 is the NSW winner of Division 7-8 of the Young ICT Explorers competition for her PyScore software application. Inez started this project during our COVID-19 remote learning program and spent hours developing code that transcribes the musical notes played by a cello, generating a digital
7 December 2020
Theatre is still happening at Santa Sabina!
In November 2020 the Year 10 Drama class directed and performed As I Lay Dreaming by Catherine McKinnon to a full house of Year 9 and 10 students in the Black Box Theatre. According to Head of Drama and Visual Arts, Ms Nicole Ellis-Windsor, the play follows the interweaving stories of people
3 December 2020