Meet the Principal 2019: Diana Patchett of St Margaret’s College
St Margaret’s College is the best of both worlds – it’s a modern school with incredible facilities and opportunities for girls, founded on traditional family and Christian values. It’s a traditional school, rich in culture and heritage, filled by modern girls who can realise gender equality in their future and modern families who share high expectations for their girls. These expectations are not just academic ones, for today’s parents know the importance of developing the so-called soft skills in setting each girl up for a bright future. St Margaret’s continues to be amongst the top academic schools in the country while giving our girls a rich and rewarding involvement in sports and the arts to an elite level.
Making that all important decision around schooling is one no parent takes lightly. It is a significant investment, but one that your child will reap the rewards of for the rest of their life. “No two children are the same, and that is a good thing,” Executive Principal Diana Patchett says. “At SMC, we celebrate diversity, we amplify it, for we know that each girl comes to us with her own gifts and abilities, and that it is our privilege to uncover those, and more, to set her up for success, whatever success looks like for her, as she moves through our school and then out into the world.”
Knowing and playing to your strengths, being an open-minded and flexible thinker, having confidence in your own skills and abilities, practising well-developed interpersonal and collaborative skills to be able to work well with others, and perhaps most importantly, demonstrating the resilience to embrace failure as a necessary means to realising a solution to new challenges – these are invaluable life skills for all ages. It is the aspiration of St Margaret’s College to set its students up for success.
The development of these powerful graduate attributes is intrinsic to the academic, social, physical and spiritual programmes they afford the girls in their care. In this way, any concerns for the unknown aspects of their future can become a tailwind that propels them forward and not a headwind to hold them back. St Margaret’s College looks forward to welcoming you to the school, so you can experience first-hand how they can set your daughter up for success.
Book your personal tour by contacting registrar Lizzie Dyer at enrol@stmargarets.school.nz. For further information visit www.stmargarets.school.nz.
