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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Ad Summa - Aim for the Highest
At Marsden, our relentless focus is on the ultimate goal of education. For us, education is much more than a step up to university and a career. Our purpose is to lay the foundation for lives of meaning, accomplishment and genuine happiness. We foster independent thinking, build resilience and instill the importance of community involvement.
At Marsden schools, children and young people flourish. They do well academically. They develop grit and grace. And they go on to enjoy their life and work. At Marsden, wonderful children realise their potential to become extraordinary people.
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School - Latest News [Page 2]
Marsden School Inducts Inspiring Women Into Hall Of Fame
Thursday, 19 November 2020, 3:22 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School (Karori, Wellington) recently inducted three inspiring and creative women, who are Old Girls of the school, as 2020 Laureates into the Marsden Hall of Fame . The Marsden Hall of Fame was established in 2006 as a way of celebrating ... More >>
Art, Creativity And Learning
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 3:16 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Creativity, problem-solving, sustainability and wellbeing are important principles guiding innovation in the curriculum and approaches to learning at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School. Actively seeking opportunities to embrace these principles has ... More >>
Alumni Giving Back To Local School
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 9:36 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Marsden Old Girls returning to inspire and share their knowledge with current students has always been an integral part of learning at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School. Prior to lockdown a group of Marsden students spent a weekend learning about lighting ... More >>
The Ultimate Creative Masterclass
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 9:47 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Mix a professional creative artist with impressionable students eager to learn and the results can be quite transformative – the ultimate outcome of the Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Artist in Residence programme . Marsden School established the ... More >>
Remote Learning At Marsden School
Wednesday, 25 March 2020, 5:31 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
As the country moves into isolation Preschool to Year 13 students at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School have started their remote learning. The campus is closed, but learning continues and students, staff and parents have all embraced the challenge and opportunity. ... More >>
Marsden School teacher to represent NZ in global research
Friday, 6 March 2020, 11:19 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Margaret Adeane, Academic Director at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School , has been selected to represent NZ on the Global Action Research Collaborative pilot programme in partnership with the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (US), Girls’ Schools ... More >>
New leaders at Marsden Primary and Preschool
Friday, 28 February 2020, 9:55 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Marsden Primary School girls and Preschool tamariki are warmly welcomed each day by their new leaders Jennifer Ioannou, Director of Marden Primary and Helen McConnell, Head of Marsden Preschool. Both have replaced long term staff members who retired ... More >>
Marsden School hosts Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
Friday, 7 February 2020, 11:07 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
International best-selling author and founder of the Arrowsmith cognitive learning program, Canadian Barbara ArrowsmithYoung will be speaking at a free event at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School on the evening of 25 February, followed by a book ... More >>
Marsden Student Creates Wellbeing Book
Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 10:14 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Olivia Boulieris, a Year 12 Samuel Marsden Collegiate School student, has a wonderful eye for photography and has used this to great effect to create a stunning self-published book entitled 'Wellbeing'. She says, “What started off as a project given to me ... More >>
Marsden students march for positive change
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 10:01 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Over 200 Samuel Marsden Collegiate School students, from Year 8 to Year 13, have signed up to be part of the Climate Change protest at Parliament tomorrow. ‘Globally we are seeing young people stand up and ensure their voices are heard on a subject ... More >>
Students sponsored to attend Innovative Young Minds
Thursday, 6 June 2019, 2:03 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Year 11 students Trinity Hunt of Karori and Grace Kerr of Roseneath have been selected to attend this year’s Innovative Young Minds (IYM) programme in Upper Hutt. IYM was established by Hutt City Council and Rotary ... More >>
Marsden School hockey success
Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 12:44 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Six talented players from Samuel Marsden Collegiate School ’s 1st XI Hockey team have won a place on teams that will represent Wellington and the wider region in the U18 age group. Maia Shackelford and Kate Thomason will play for the U18 Capital ... More >>
The Ultimate Creative Masterclass
Wednesday, 22 May 2019, 4:04 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Mix professional creative artist with impressionable students eager to learn and the results can be quite transformative – the ultimate outcome of the Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Artist in Residence programme . Marsden School established the ... More >>
World's first, Godspell in Te Reo
Wednesday, 8 May 2019, 2:54 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Year 10-13 students are rehearsing hard ahead of their upcoming production of Godspell, 21-24 May 2019. More >>
Positively Proactive. Leading the way in wellbeing education
Friday, 8 February 2019, 4:12 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate
In a first for New Zealand, Samuel Marsden Collegiate School has become a Visible Wellbeing TM school, partnering with leading international Positive Psychology expert, Professor Lea Waters, to expand their support of student wellbeing. This initiative ... More >>
Local icon celebrates 140 years
Monday, 10 December 2018, 10:57 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School has been celebrating its 140th birthday in style this year with a variety of occasions, starting with a wonderful pōwhiri welcoming new students and Principal Narelle Umbers. A full school Service at Wellington’s ... More >>
Innovation an integral part of Future-focused Learning
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 11:33 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School welcomed Jonathon Meichtry, Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, as the first presenter in the Marsden Innovation Series this week. The session was attended by Marsden Year 9-13 students, parents ... More >>
Saving the Māui dolphin
Monday, 1 October 2018, 2:54 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Year 8 students have been working on Social Justice Projects over the last few months. Their brief was to choose causes they are passionate about, with the emphasis on creating change. More >>
Creativity integral part of the show
Monday, 3 September 2018, 12:53 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Primary students will perform in their production ‘Pirates versus Mermaids’ on 19 and 20 September, but it isn’t only acting they have practised over the last couple of terms. Creativity and working together ... More >>
Marsden School’s Artist in Residence Programme
Tuesday, 26 June 2018, 11:29 am | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Mix professional creative artist with impressionable students eager to learn and the results can be quite transformative – the ultimate outcome of the Samuel Marsden Collegiate School Artist in Residence programme . Marsden School established the ... More >>
