At St Cuthbert’s we know girls – we’ve been educating and growing amazing young women for over a century now and our heritage and values are renowned. So are our academic results, but here excellence isn’t just a grade, it’s about encouraging every girl to achieve her personal best. By choosing St Cuthbert’s you are giving your daughter an advantage she will carry through life.St Cuthbert’s College is an independent day and boarding school for girls from Year 0 to Year 13. From age 5 to 18, we recognise that personal success comes in different shapes and sizes.

St Cuthbert’s College accepts both day students and boarding students. Boarding students from Years 7 to 13 live in one of St. Cuthbert’s three boarding houses: Dunblane, Elgin or Melrose. The boarding community at St Cuthbert’s College is very diverse. Boarders come from Asia, the Pacific Islands and a range of other overseas locations, as well as from both urban and rural New Zealand. An increasing number of boarders are local students living between Karaka and the North Shore.

While our academic results are exceptional, a St Cuthbert’s education is much more than just top grades. From Year 12 onwards, your daughter will have the option of either continuing on the NCEA pathway or pursuing IB (International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme). Our record speaks for itself, with our girls consistently achieving some of the best results across both NCEA and IB.

St Cuthbert’s students have a reputation for obtaining exceptional academic results. We are now offering our own St Cuthbert’s Year 11 Diploma.

From Years 12 and 13 there is a choice of two academic pathways. With both NCEA and International Baccalaureate (IB) qualifications on offer, no matter your daughter’s academic aspirations and interests, our approach to teaching means that our students gain the tools to become adaptable, forward-thinking, life-long learners.

We have three boarding houses and each boarding house caters for designated year levels. Girls move between boarding houses as they progress through the Senior School.

St Cuthbert’s provides three Boarding options:

• Full Boarding: Boarders remain at the school during the weekend, with the option of taking leave on any weekend.
• Weekly Boarding: Boarders return home during the weekend, with the option of remaining in boarding during the weekend if needed.
• Flexi Boarding: Day students stay as temporary boarders (short stays if parents are away or when girls have school commitments out of hours).

Boardingware (an online tool) ensures that you as parents have complete oversight of your daughter’s leave requests.

The Boarding House offers a structured Prep Programme in the evenings to enable students to complete their homework and study for assessments and examinations.

International Boarders
At St Cuthbert’s we give international students an extra level of support. Our wraparound pastoral care programme recognises the difficult transition these girls face when they move to another country and includes for our international families: an induction day; student lunches; themed dinners; and regular meetings with the international students’ co-ordinator and counsellor.

We have budding scientists, potential sports stars, aspiring artists and performers – as well as lots of girls who are yet to discover their passions and strengths.

What’s important to us, is that every girl feels confident to have a go and try everything – having fun in the process.

From a young age we ask our students to look beyond the classroom and embrace educational opportunities that spark their curiosity.

Camps and trips allow girls to experience memorable education outside of our Epsom campus and allow St Cuthbert’s girls to make important connections between what they are learning in class to the world around them… Not to mention they are incredibly fun!

Extracurricular activities are divided into:

• Performing Arts (Dance, Music, Drama, Speech)
• Sports (Social Sports, Competitive Sports, Athlete Pathway Programme)
• Beyond the Classroom activities
• Leadership