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Tënä Koutou Katoa, Cead Mile Failte, Welcome to Villa Maria College!

As you tune into our website you get in touch with 90 years of Mercy education. For 90 years the vision of Catherine McAuley (founder of the Sisters of Mercy) has been implemented, tested and challenged. 

Why Villa Maria, the House of Mary?  If you are seeking quality education, academic achievement and wide co-curricular programmes - then Villa Maria College has to be on your shortlist.  The College annually achieves academic results which are among the best in New Zealand.

It is the special character, the Mercy Character, which makes Villa different.  We expect respect - student to student, teacher to teacher, students to support staff and so on.  In the words of the prophet Hosea:

Hear then what the prophet Micah asks of you: 

• To live justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God

Justice is mercy/love distributed.  Quality relationships are necessary for all learning and teaching and humility is knowing that one needs God - that the individual is not the be all of creation.

It is hard to believe that girls who enter Year 7 at Villa Maria College in 2012 will be the senior class for the Centennial.

We hope you will choose not only to be part of Villa's community, but to help write a new chapter in College history.

We welcome new, intending and prospective students and their families, as well as other visitors on Open Day to see our College community in action - to talk to our staff and students and to celebrate our cultural performances.

Mrs. Mary Lynch
Principal