St Matthews Collegiate School
High School in Masterton
www.stmatts.school.nz/
Address
66 Pownall Street. 5810, Masterton, Wellington.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
What you should know about St Matthews Collegiate School
Although Anglican, the Trinity Schools welcome students from all cultures, religions and faiths who undertake to uphold the special character. She moved with her family to Masterton in 1904 and established her own day school for boys and girls. Ella Hampton’s private school was bought by St Matthew’s Church Vestry in 1913 and in 1914 opened as St Matthew’s Collegiate School on the Church Street site in Masterton. Founded in 1914, St Matthew’s is an integrated day and boarding school for girls from Year 7 to Year 13. St Matthew’s is part of the Trinity family of schools which includes Hadlow Preparatory School for boys and girls from pre school to Year 8, St Matthew’s for girls and Rathkeale College for boys from Year 9 to Year 13. The work The Friends does benefits not only present students, but also future generations of students to enjoy.
The Foundation has been established to support the development and advancement of St Matthew’s Collegiate School and the young women within it. The stated aim of the Foundation is the advancement of education at St Matthew’s by supporting and providing funds and other benefits to or for the School. We are encouraging past pupils, staff members, parents, grandparents and friends of St Matthew’s who have benefited from their association with the school, to make a financial contribution to help ensure the continued success in the future. The uniform symbolises the traditions and achievements of St Matthew’s and it is important that the uniform is always neat and clean. All state integrated schools teach the New Zealand Curriculum, but keep their own Special Character usually a philosophical or religious belief as part of their school programme.
As an integrated school, certain aspects of St Matthew’s are governed by the Board of Proprietors, which is the Trinity Schools Trust Board. Hadlow Preparatory School and Rathkeale College are also state integrated schools owned by the Trinity Schools Trust Board. Significantly, we also ister a Scholarship which is offered to a daughter of an Old Girl whose parents require financial assistance to send their daughter to St Matthew’s. In an increasingly secular world, St Matthew’s Special Character stands for . Students and staff are part of a family which participates together in all school activities academic, sporting, cultural and spiritual.
Sound management, teaching and governance contribute to high levels of student achievement and progress. It was a weekend of events, activities and memorials to reconnect old school friends, teachers, staff and supporters of both schools. This unique artwork brings great sentiment to the past, present and future generations of St Matthew’s women as we celebrate 100 years and the future of the school. The weekend was warmly received by all who attended and we received many delightful letters, emails and cards containing joy and stories of reconnecting and remembering
Through its many developments over the past ten decades, the school’s original aims and Christian origins endure today.
She desperately wanted to do something more in society than follow the general pattern for women in the early 1900s. Ella Hampton graduated from Otago University in 1900, partially deaf and blind as a result of scarlet fever. She moved with her family to Masterton in 1904 and established her own day school for boys and girls. Ella Hampton’s private school was bought by St Matthew’s Church Vestry in 1913 and in 1914 opened as St Matthew’s Collegiate School on the Church Street site in Masterton.
It then moved across the road from the church and in 1917 moved to its current site. The main school building now Main House for boarders opened in 1921 as a day school only and was completed in 1926
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Services
years 7 - 13
senior college (years 12 & 13) is co-ed
Christian environment
international students
sport & physical education programmes
Anglican Church
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