The long anticipated SSC community cook book, ‘Gathering Around the Table’ has arrived from the printer and is being enjoyed to wide acclaim. It was launched at the P&F meeting with champagne and canapes cooked from the recipes in the book. Indeed it is more than a simple
29 November 2012
Santa Sabina’s famed Year 11 Debaters have won the senior division of the CSDA State Debating Championship for the 3rd time.Emilia, Olivia, Katie Garsia and Anna, who this year won the Catholic Schools’ Debating Association’s metropolitan competition for the 5th consecutive year in Term 3, debated against Mackillop College
19 November 2012
Children from St Lucy’s School in Wahroonga have joined us at SSC for a reunion with their Yr 11 camp leaders. The students reminisced about the experiences shared during their 3 days at Tallong, shared pizza, games and dancing. The children also delighted in recognising St Dominic on the Plot,.
15 November 2012
Kindergarten students have led the Primary School community in a moving ceremony to mark Remembrance Day 2013.The students laid wreaths as the flags were raised and the National Anthem was sung. The community paused for a minute’s silence and candles were lit in remembrance of all who have lost their
13 November 2012
Year 11 student Katie was chosen as the Community Guest Speaker at the recent Strathfield Council Citizenship ceremony. As well as welcoming new citizens to Australia Katie delivered a powerful speech on the privileges of being an Australian. She reflected on her work with Sudanese Refugees and her recent immersion
13 November 2012
Year 6 Music classes have joined with students across Australia to perform Different People(Stand Together) as part of Music Count Us In, a national initiative to encourage music participation in schools. Our singers and instrumentalists demonstrated great talent and enthusiasm as they performed in this exciting event which
1 November 2012
The College P&F have hosted a fantastic luncheon in the Secondary School for the winning colour house from the Fair, Teangi. From orange slushies to orange cupcakes, rice paper rolls and pizza, the girls were treated to a delicious feast. Our thanks go to the P&F for providing this special lunch in
1 November 2012
The congratulations of the College community go to Karen, a Year 11 student and 2011-2012 Social Justice Leader, who has been recognized in The Marie Bashir Peace Awards 2012 with one of four Highly Commended Certificates, for her efforts towards fostering peace and harmony. Karen has made an enormous contribution
28 October 2012
Santa’s spirit of community set sail with the P&F Association’s’Bon Voyage’Trivia Night as pirates and sailors came together to meet the challenge of the trivia questions and best decorated table, while also honouring the 20 year commitment to the College P&F by Elizabeth Pooley. Generosity of spirit and the many
28 October 2012
Year 6 students have made iPad movies to show their SKYPE friends in San Francisco some glimpses of their school. The girls chat to the students from Kent School in San Francisco using SKYPE and have discovered the challenges of working out the time zones for the two classes to
24 October 2012
An appreciative audience of parents and staff has enjoyed a new collaborative initiative of the Year 10 Music Theatre and Year 10 Food Technology classes on the production of a Theatre Restaurant. The Music Theatre class created a script and rehearsed their amusing performance over several weeks. The Food Technology students designed
23 October 2012
Representatives from the current cohort of ‘Homework Help’ volunteers have accepted an award in the West’s Ashfield Community Citizenship Awards. Since 2004, groups of Santa students have gone each week after school to St Joachim’s Primary School in Lidcombe to help refugee children with their homework. The recognition brings a cheque
22 October 2012