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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 November

Sun 15

School Mass @ 9.30am

15 Nov 2026

Mon 16

Year 7 & 8 Camp @ Blue Mountain Adventure Centre

16 Nov 2026 - 20 Nov 2026

Tue 24

Interschool Athletics

24 Nov 2026

Mon 30

Swim Safe

30 Nov 2026 - 4 Dec 2026

Latest Notices

Bank Account Payments

13 Nov 2026

Good afternoon parents/caregivers

Can I please ask that when you are making a payment online that you use a reference - some people are not putting references on payments and I therefore have NO idea what the payments are for.

We have so many things going on, and so many payments coming in - I just need some clue as to what is being paid for please.

Thank you

Sandra Louch

Office Manager

Details Change

12 Nov 2026

Good morning - have any of your contact details changed? If so, please reply to this message asap with updated information

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CONTACT NUMBER:

EMERGENCY CONTACT:

EMERGENCY CONTACT NUMBER:

It is vital that the school has the correct information so that if an emergency occurs we can contact you

Postponement of Local Hockey

10 Nov 2026

Ahiahi marie koutou,

Unfortunately, we have had to make the tough decision to call off our festival for tonight. With quite consistent rain and more warnings or rain to come we thought it would be better to postpone our last evening until next week Tuesday 17th.

So, no hockey tonight.

Schools/Kura, if you can please let me know if next week doesn't work for your teams as then we will work out an alternative plan for what next week may look like - we aim to still finish with a fun night of hockey with the whānau.

Thanks so much and I will let you all know the finalised plan later in the week.

Sonja

Message from Sonja Rennie | Hockey Development Team

9 Nov 2026

Message from Sonja Rennie | Hockey Development Team

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you have had a great week. It was awesome to see all the improvement at last weeks games! Well done!

The festival is tomorrow afternoon with games starting at 4pm. Please check the draw as there are two shorter games for each team. Dress up, enjoy the sausage sizzle and bring a picnic and some fun. See you there! (please see attached)

Great news!

There will be another round of local hockey starting in Term 1. Please see the flyer attached. I will be sending out the registrations to the schools towards the end of this term. But share it around and start getting excited to play more hockey in 2027!

Any questions, please ask, otherwise see you all tomorrow for the festival.

Sonja

Wk-7-DrawTue-10-Nov-Festival2026-2.pdf

Hooked-2-PlayLocal-Hockey-PosterT42026-1.pdf

Touch - Cancelled

6 Nov 2026

Due to the weather not being able to make a choice - and the sky looks pretty threatening ... we have made the call to cancel touch this evening

Thank you for your understanding