The Maker Club that meets on Thursday after school, work with Bryn Lewis to code and create cool projects. Over recent weeks the girls and Bryn have been getting their heads around the code and attempting to launch a rocket.
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EPro8 Design Winner
Congratulations to Millie Edwards for creating a winning design for the EPr08 Design Competition (Engineering, Problem Solving and...
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Nov 29, 20221 min read
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PROJECT X - Celebrating Learning
We had a wonderful afternoon of presentations from the year 11 - 13 project X students to showcase the mahi in a range of topics which...
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Oct 27, 20221 min read
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Laser Cutting
The laser cutter continues to be a resource that is used by year 10 - 13 students. Many of our senior students are taking advantage of...
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Sep 29, 20221 min read
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Robocup Nationals 2022
Congratulations Millie Edwards The Premiere Theatre Category is a section of the robocup competition where coding skills and creativity...
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Sep 16, 20221 min read
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Esports
Congratulations to SMC's first Esports Minecraft Speed Build winners. Esports, short for electronic sports, is organised competitive...
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Aug 6, 20221 min read
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Using the App - Reality Composer in Maths
Sometimes a number doesn’t mean too much until you put it into context. As the athletics in the Commonwealth Games is currently being...
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Aug 3, 20221 min read
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SMC Minions
Cartia, Eva, Georgia and Elise together make up the Y7 SMC Minions, one of SMC’s seven EPro8 teams this year. They first competed in an...
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Aug 2, 20221 min read
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Engineering, Problem Solving and Innovation
There was a huge build up for our SMC internal qualifying event for the Inter-school EPro8 competition. We had three Year 5/6 teams...
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Jun 12, 20221 min read
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SMC Tech Week
From the Head of the Junior School Last week was New Zealand Tech Week, a week that celebrates innovations happening in the New Zealand...
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May 29, 20222 min read
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Google Leaders at SMC
Next Story from 'St Margaret's College Evergreen Magazine Autumn 2022' Audrey Campbell and Nicole Lloyd A thirst for knowledge, a desire...
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Apr 8, 20223 min read
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Magic at SMC
in Minecraft SMC Minecraft Club is abuzz with magic and potions. This term’s challenge was to create Hogwarts City. This task was...
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Mar 30, 20221 min read
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Advanced Coding
We are fortunate welcome back again our volunteer tutor Bryn Lewis. Bryn continues to guide our students through individual projects...
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Mar 22, 20221 min read
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Robotics 2022
The robotics club is up and running. Although the number of students interested in participating in the robotics club has dropped, this...
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Mar 22, 20221 min read
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Stencils
For a while now I have been wondering if we could repurpose the covers of clear files that have been discarded by students. Today I...
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Mar 22, 20221 min read
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Squeals of Delight
Year 4 girl engineers were thrilled when they completed the challenge to make their vehicle move using our new EPro8 electronics kit. The...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
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Drone in the skies
Our greatest challenge has been the battle in the skies has been sharing this space with the resident magpies and seagulls. Staff and...
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Feb 28, 20221 min read
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Girl Engineers
Our long awaited electronic kits have arrived! These starter kits contain a battery, direction box, a motor & switches. This is perfect...
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Feb 23, 20221 min read
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Creative, Innovative & Heartfelt
Lifelong learning - What exactly does this mean? According to the Ministry of Education, the following are characteristics of a lifelong...
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Oct 13, 20212 min read
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The Regional Robocup Competition
Robotics is a club where students get to learn to code and build robots with a range of sensors. This seems simple enough, but, this club...
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Aug 18, 20212 min read
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Intergenerational Learning
This beautiful photo represents intergenerational learning. Year 3 students at SMC had the joy of meeting their honorary grandparents to...
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Aug 14, 20211 min read
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Preparing students for unpredictable future
When I was a teenager, the future my parents strongly suggested that with a good education and a university degree I could get a better...
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Jul 4, 20212 min read
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Beginner/ Intermediate Code Club Returns
I am pleased to announce that we are keen to restart our beginner/intermediate club at the start of Term 3. If you would like to join...
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Jul 1, 20211 min read
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T3A Field Trip
T3A is a class running at St Margarets College for older adults. It is Technology For The 3rd Age, a class for adults to become more...
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Jun 14, 20211 min read
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T3A members experience some 21st century learning
Few people know who Charles Hull is! In 1983, Chuck invented the first 3D printing machine. It's only been in the last decade that this...
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Jun 4, 20211 min read
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SMC Robotics showcased on What Now
Thank you to Millie, Tessa and Ida for being wonderful advocates of coding and robotics. See our students with their robots in action on...
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Jun 2, 20211 min read
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Grow Ōtautahi
Grow Ōtautahi With the school’s theme this year being “create your own masterpiece”, there is no doubt that the Junior School has...
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Mar 15, 20211 min read
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2021 TECH CLUBS
We are so pleased to restart our technology clubs during lunch and after school. Students have many opportunities to learn new skills...
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Mar 8, 20212 min read
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We have launch
The Maker Club that meets on Thursday after school, work with Bryn Lewis to code and create cool projects. Over recent weeks the girls...
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Nov 9, 20201 min read
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Robocup 2020
In light of the what we have all experienced this year with the Covid 19 pandemic, Robocup took on a different form to previous...
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Oct 13, 20201 min read
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EPro8 - Problem Based learning
Problem Based Learning this term has been using EPro8 equipment, which has proved to be fun, challenging, frustrating and extremely...
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Sep 24, 20201 min read
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Eco Friendly - Interface Minecraft Competition
The SMC Minecraft Club have been busy this term focused on the Interface Minecraft Competition, titled Better Futures. Our focus was how...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read
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Problem Based Learning
Engineers are problem solvers. We want SMC girls to be problem solvers who use technology for a purpose. The girls used a methodology...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read
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Godwits Take Flight
Year 3 SMC students are learning of the strains and struggles of the lifecycle of Godwits. Students discovered the vast journeys these...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read
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Y5-8 EPRO8 Competition
Congratulations to the girls who spent the first day of their holiday break in school completing in the EPRO8 Competition. The challenge...
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Jul 8, 20201 min read
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Jun 18, 20200 min read
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Competitions to Students Post Covid
As you can imagine with the time we have face in lockdown, the new normal is looking different. Robocup will no longer run in 2020...
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May 28, 20201 min read
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Term 2 Post Covid looks a little different
We have restarted our tech clubs for our girls. Our volunteer tutors and student leaders have been very keen to get back to sharing...
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May 28, 20201 min read
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Scratch Coding meets World War 1 History
A visit to Christchurch City Library inspired SMC students to investigate "How History Is Remembered and Shared". A photographic tour of...
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Jan 30, 20201 min read
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Problem Solving with Thymio Robots
At the end of 2019, all year 7 students had an opportunity to begin some basic programming. We used the Thymio robots and block coding...
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Jan 8, 20201 min read
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Novel Study/ Green Screen
(Designing & Developing Digital Outcome, new progress outcome) Y5/6 Novel Study - this project was a great collaboration of Literacy,...
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Nov 18, 20191 min read
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Music Videos
As part of the English curriculum, through the years at school, students are asked to analyse the work of others. Text, movies, and...
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Nov 5, 20192 min read
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Our Mission
In April of 2015 the Centre for Innovation at St Margaret's College was opened. Our mission in 2015 was to create a space where our...
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Oct 30, 20191 min read
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Spatial Design
The year is drawing to a close for senior students. It has been wonderful to celebrate and showcase the wonderful work created by some...
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Oct 16, 20191 min read
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iCreate - How Technology Has Changed - Photography
Year 4 students have created an outstanding photo montage showcasing their understanding of photographic elements. Investigation through...
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Sep 19, 20191 min read
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Technology for the 3rd Age
Join us in Term 4 for more workshops to help you navigate your mobile device.
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Sep 9, 20191 min read
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Robocup 2019
I have been involved in robotics for a number of years now and it never ceases to amaze me that robots in an unfamiliar environment...
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Sep 9, 20192 min read
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EPro8 Competition ( Engineering, Problem Solving & Innovation)
Over the past two weeks, the Year 5-9 Construction Club girls have competed in the EPro8 competition. EPro8 is an Engineering, Problem...
Audrey Campbell
Aug 26, 20191 min read
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Space School
STEAM - Science Technology Engineering Art and Maths I was tremendously excited that students from St Margaret’s College had an...
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Jul 26, 20193 min read
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WiECAN
Are you 16 years old by 19 January 2020? Are you interested in engineering? Check out this link https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/...
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Jul 24, 20191 min read
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Welcome to SMC Centre For Innovation Blog
Rethink What's Possible (Mission statement) We 'walk and chew gum' and have 'blue sky thinking' Not only are we looking to improve how...
Audrey Campbell
Jul 1, 20191 min read
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