The School - Philosophy

Mission statement   “The College’s intent is to educate the whole person within our Catholic school community.”

Our mission is to give every girl at Marian a challenging, sound and enjoyable Catholic education within an environment that is friendly, happy and liberating.

The school guidelines are based on the following philosophy: to do one’s best to be courteous to respect others to respect oneself

Respect for others includes: their good name their feelings their way of doing things their property their ambitions their beliefs

Respect for yourself includes: the way you dress the way you conduct yourself the way you work the way you accept advice keeping your commitments the way you enter into the life of the school

The maximum roll set by the Integration Agreement is currently 430 with preference of enrolment given to Catholic girls. This number, though small for an urban secondary school, is ideal, allowing us to offer a wide range of subjects at each year level while maintaining a caring, happy and safe environment and giving individual attention to each girl. Although we are a school for girls we have a cultural relationship with our brother school, St Bede’s, and we share facilities and resources in the senior school with Shirley Boys’ High School.

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Marian College, 126 North Parade, PO Box 27-064, Christchurch New Zealand.
Telephone: 03 385 8449, Facsimile: 03 385 1022. email: exec@mariancollege.school.nz