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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 April

Thu 23

Year 5 & 6 EPRO8 Interschool Final

23 Apr 2026

Latest Notices

ANZAC

22 Apr 2026

Good afternoon

If you can - can you please provide your child with a photograph of a family member who served for their country - this is for our Anzac Liturgy on Tuesday at 12pm. You are very welcome to join us.

Photos can be brought in or emailed to karen@stmarysput.school.nz

SWCA Schools cricket this afternoon

31 Mar 2026

Welcome to the last day of schools cricket this term. It looks like the weather is going to cooperate.

Remember, all games are at DAVID FOOTE PARK in TOKOROA today.

There will also be free sausages for the kids after and a short presentation.

That likely means we go a bit later, closer to 6.30 or 7pm finish, though we'll try and keep the games quicker today.

On the West pitch we will have BEGS vs St Marys.

On the middle pitch we will have Te Waotu vs Amisfield

On the east pitch we will have Cargill vs Lichfield

As usual we may have to mix the teams up a bit to juggle numbers.

See you this afternoon.