Curriculum Information

The NZ Curriculum Working Document for St Mary’s College, Wellington

“In discharging the great duty of teaching...labour as strenuously as if great efforts were necessary to ensure any degree of success, yet with an abiding consciousness that only God can fructify what His servants plant and water”
Catherine McAuley

Download the NZ Curriculum Working Document for St Mary's College, Wellington

At St Mary’s College we want each girl to be a woman of faith who can demonstrate by her day to day actions that she is:

  • resourceful and resilient, 
  • considerate and positive
  • aware of justice issues and has social values
  • healthy and well balanced
  • independent and has self-respect
  • a creative thinker
  • socially able in a variety of environments
  • a life long independent learner
  • caring and helpful,
  • socially aware,
  • a contributor to society,
  • able to show perseverance,
  • confident
  • kind, caring and empathetic
  • adaptable
  • able to care for self, others and the environment,
  • brave and courageous,
  • able to demonstrate a healthy cynicism
  • financially and socially literate
  • enterprising
  • a multi-faceted thinker
  • pro-active
  • a flexible thinker

History of St Mary's College

St Mary's College has been educating students since 1850.

History of St Mary's College

Our Mission

"To provide an excellent Catholic education for young women"

Our Mission

Special Character

St Mary's College combines its Catholic Mercy values with formal instruction, liturgy and apostolic work as part of the curriculum.

Special Character

Location

Situated in historic Thorndon, right in the heart of Wellington City.

Location