Ngā mihi o te rā, and a warm welcome to St Margaret’s College, Christchurch’s leading girls’ school.
It is our privilege to realise the next generation of young women, ready to step confidently into the modern world, fortified with strong traditional values. It is this balanced foundation that encourages our girls to know and play to their strengths, be open-minded flexible thinkers, have confidence in their skills and abilities, possess well-developed collaboration skills, and perhaps most importantly, demonstrate the resilience to embrace failure as a necessary means to realising a solution to new challenges – invaluable life skills for all ages.
At SMC, the development of these powerful graduate attributes is intrinsic to the academic, social, physical and spiritual programmes we afford our girls. We are proud that SMC students achieve amongst the best academic results in New Zealand and internationally, supported by a curriculum that we, as an independent school, have tailored to best meet their needs, while giving them a rich involvement in sports and the arts to an elite level.
With the most modern facilities in Christchurch and professional teaching staff committed to ensuring our girls can be the best they can be, each girl is supported in discovering her own gifts, and empowered to learn, live and lead.
Diana Patchett
Executive Principal
