St Mary's School, Waverley

St Mary's School is a South African Anglican private boarding school for girls located in Waverley, Johannesburg.

St Mary's School
Address
55 Athol Street Waverly Johannesburg 2090 South Africa
Information
Type	Private, Boarding
Motto	Latin: Candida Rectaque (Fair, and straight)
Established	1888 (1888)
Locale	Suburban
Headmistress	Ms Deanne King
Exam board	IEB
Grades	000 - 12
Number of students	1,057 girls
School color(s)	red and white
Fees 2013	R 74 600 p.a. (boarding termly) R 92 450 p.a. (tuition Form V)
Website	www.stmaryschool.co.za

Established in 1888, it is the oldest school in Johannesburg. It was founded by the Anglican clergyman the Rev. John T. Darragh, who also founded its brother school St. John's College, Johannesburg in Houghton ten years later in 1898.

St Mary's School writes the Independent Examinations Board exams.

Alumnae and Old Girls

• Cindy Brown
• Lisa-Marie Deetlefs
• Natalie Grainger (squash)
• Claire Nitch (squash)
• Lize-Mari Retief (swimming)
• Ashley Callie
• Prue Leith
• Lerato Mbele
• Carolyn Slaughter
• Jane Dutton

Houses

St Mary's consists of four houses, each with a different colour, which compete in inter-house events such as hockey, tennis, swimming, athletics, squash, music, debating and theatre.

Junior school houses

• Hares (Yellow)
• Zebras (Red)
• Springboks (Green)
• Lions (Blue)

Pupils in grade 0 are placed in houses in the first term and stay throughout until grade 7

High school houses

• Clayton (Yellow)
• Furse (Red)
• Karney (Green)
• Phelps (Blue)

The house system was introduced in 1934 and students wear their house badges on their blazers with pride. The houses are named after bishops of Johannesburg; Geoffrey Clayton 1934-1949 and Arthur Karney 1922-1933; bishop of Pretoria, Michael Furse 1909–1920 and archbishop of Cape Town, Francis Phelps 1931–1938.

See also

• List of boarding schools