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Striving for Excellence in the Marist Tradition

Saint Mary's Catholic School History

Our Catholic School was formed by the Marist Sisters and was opened on the 2nd of February 1944. The school was built by a local farmer and the parish men. Most of the materials for the school were donated by local farmers. There were only 3 teachers, 3 classrooms and only 38 students. Up until 1959 all the teachers were nuns. The teachers that joined after that were lay teachers. Our principal became a lay teacher in 1991. The school pool first opened in 1974 at the annual school gala day. All the money was fund raised for and the pool took ten weeks to build.
Our Beliefs:
Our school believes in the Marist tradition as we strive for excellence. As a Catholic School we believe in the Holy Bible and follow the Ten Commandments. We believe in the one and only God, the creator of all things big and small. As St. Mary's Catholic School, we follow in the footsteps of Mary.

What's happening at St Mary's Catholic School Putaruru?

Upcoming Events in August

Fri 14

Assumption School Mass

14 Aug 2026

Thu 20

Hearing & Vision Checks

20 Aug 2026

Wed 26

Junior Tough Girl/Guy in Rotorua

26 Aug 2026

Fri 28

Wearable Arts

28 Aug 2026

Latest Notices

Putaruru Schools Ag Day

11 Aug 2026

Dear All

There will be an Ag Day meeting this evening at 6:30pm in preparation for the 2026 Putaruru Schools Ag Day to be held on 14th October 2026.

The meeting will be held at the Graham Brown Putaruru office (next to BP). All welcome.

Sausage Sizzle

11 Aug 2026

Good morning

Just a reminder that sausage sizzle starts this Friday, thank you to Yazmine Ward for offering to cook them this week :)

For those parents who want to stay on the "always have a sausage" list - please let me know if you no longer want to remain on this and I will remove the student order from the list.

For our new parents .... if you would like to be added to the "always have a sausage" list, please let me know and I'll add your child on (just let me know if they want sauce or not).

Please note ... if your child is on the "always have a sausage list" and they are not at school for whatever reason on a Friday - I will remove them for that week and the sausage taken off their account.

Sausages are $2.00 each.

Those students who are currently on the "always have a sausage list" are:

ROOM 1

Hunter

Sophie

Olive

Lyla

Rhys

Anira

Billie

Harrison

ROOM 2

Maverick

Sinead

Remy

Levi

Luca

Colby

Xavier

Frankie

Isabella

Bodhi

ROOM 3

Jaycee

Kaiya

Katrina

Mila

Violet

Niamh

Jerickson

Maleka

Te Ahika

Ejay

James

Jordan-Florence
Andrew

ROOM 4

Aaron

Stella

Mateo

Jamison

Te Rehua

Renzy

Blake

Noah R

Harper

Emilia

Mikah

ROOM 5

Arlo

Jayce

Sienna H

Kenzie

Tadhg

Euan

Cooper

Ashlee

Theia

ROOM 6

Lylah

Brody

Tane

Caleb

Cillian

Cleo

Aurora

Scarlett

Chloe

Indy-Lee

Xavier

Harry

ROOM 7 & 8

Quinn

Wiremu

Sofia

Harper

Charlie

Charlotte L

William

Kauri-Lee

Marco

Declan

Toby

Jimmy

Koby

Lucas

Cade

Charlotte

Ryder

Sandra Louch

Office Manager

School Photos

7 Aug 2026

Year 7 & 8 Camp Fundraiser

7 Aug 2026

Pizza Fundraiser - 5th August

4 Aug 2026

Pizza orders should have been given to the office this morning - I'm missing a LOT - if your child wants pizza, and you haven't returned the form - please email me what they want and please pay online :) $3 a slice

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