Marcellin College, Auckland

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Marcellin College
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Marcellin College, Auckland
617 Mt Albert Road,
Royal Oak,
Auckland,
New Zealand
Coordinates 36°54′39″S174°45′59″E / 36.9108°S 174.7665°E / -36.9108; 174.7665
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TypeIntegrated secondary (year 7–13) Roman Catholic Co-Ed
MottoOptima Quaere (Seek The Best)
Established1958; 66 years ago (St Benedict's College founded 1884)
Ministry of Education Institution no. 63
PrincipalMs Maria Prescott
School roll611 [1] (August 2024)
Socio-economic decile2F [2]
Website www.marcellin.school.nz

Marcellin College is a Catholic, integrated, co-educational college in Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand for students in Year 7 to Year 13. The college was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1958 as a school for boys only. The school follows the values of Marist education, which was formed by the name of the school and patron saint, St Marcellin Champagnat. [3] The school is located on grounds which had been part of the Pah estate. It has an extensive woodland on its southern and western boundaries. [4] Most of the former Pah estate contiguous with Marcellin College is now owned by the Auckland Council and is maintained as a park known as "Monte Cecilia Park." The Auckland Franciscan Friary and Retreat Centre is just across Monte Cecilia Park from the college. [5] A Discalced Carmelite Monastery (under the patronage of the Holy Family and St Thomas, Apostle) is directly opposite the college on Mt Albert Rd. [6] The school became co-educational in 1981 when it amalgamated with St Benedict's College, a girls' school.

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History

Origins

The college was established in 1958, for boys, by the Marist Brothers as a normal school [7] for the training of Brothers as teachers in intermediate classes. [8] Until 1958 the site of the college had been occupied by the Marist Brothers scholasticate. From the scholasticate, which was established in 1943, the young teachers had to travel to the Marist school in Vermont St, Ponsonby. [9] This was expensive and inconvenient. In 1957 the scholasticate was removed to new buildings erected on land (called Monte Cecelia) purchased from the Sisters of Mercy behind and adjacent to the college site. A new building called Marcellin Hall was built for the training of Marist Brothers. This opened in 1961. In 1979 Marcellin Hall became a Pastoral Centre for personal renewal, theological reflection and apostolic effectiveness with residential courses, seminars and retreats there conducted by a community of nuns, priests and brothers. [7] Some parts of this building are included in the present school. [10]

Early days

The first building of the school was a block of four classrooms [7] and when the college commenced in 1958 it had only two year levels, years 7 and 8 – then called Forms 1 and 2. The staff of the scholasticate acted as the teachers until the College was staffed independently. The College was soon operating as a full secondary school. [11] The need to devote resources to the new school considerably stretched the Marist Brothers and they had to reduce staff or increase class sizes at some other schools. [12]

Co-education and integration

In 1982 the proprietor of Marcellin College signed an integration agreement with the Minister of Education and the college entered the State education system as a State-integrated school. However, it entered the state system as a co-educational secondary school because in 1981 the school had incorporated a secondary school for girls, St Benedict's College, Newton, which closed in that year.

St Benedict's College

St Benedict's College had its origins in 1884 when the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, at the behest of their founder, Mary MacKillop (St Mary of the Cross), arrived in Auckland from Adelaide and opened their first school in a converted shop in Karangahape Road. They founded St Benedict's College (secondary) and St Benedict's School (primary) near St Benedict's Church, Newton in 1886, and in 1898 a large new school was built on the opposite corner from the church. From the early 1970s, population drift coinciding with, and to some extent due to, the construction of the nearby Auckland motorway system, led to a dramatic fall off in pupils. The secondary college merged with Marcellin College in 1981, and the primary school closed. [13] [8] The writer Ruth Park, who attended St Benedict's in the 1930s and finished her years there as Head Girl, wrote lovingly of her school years with the sisters. "St Benedict's, unfunded, unheated, elderly and shabby, how much I owe you!" [14] The memory of St Benedict's College is treasured as an important part of the tradition of Marcellin College.

Ethos

In 2022, "Marcellin College has seen strong roll growth and rapidly growing popularity". [15] The college has a diverse, multicultural roll. In 2014, the school's gender composition was Male 56% and Female 44% and its ethnic composition was Māori 7%, NZ European/Pakeha 8%, Pacifica 58%. Asian 24% and other 3%. There were four international students. [16] Academically, the school offers for senior years the National Certificate of Educational Achievement assessment system (NCEA). [8]

Principals

Notable alumni

This is a list of notable former students of Marcellin College, Auckland and St Benedict's College, Newton, which amalgamated with Marcellin College in 1981.

Notes

  1. ↑ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Reidy, Jade (2013). Not Just Passing Through: the Making of Mt Roskill (2nd ed.). Auckland: Puketāpapa Local Board. p. 162. ISBN   978-1-927216-97-2. OCLC   889931177. Wikidata   Q116775081.
  4. ↑ Roskill: An illustrated history of New Zealand's largest borough, Mt Roskill Borough Council, 1984, p. 48.
  5. ↑ St Francis Retreat Centre, Auckland (Retrieved 9 June 2016)
  6. ↑ Carmel of St Thomas, Apostle, Auckland (Retrieved 10 June 2016)
  7. 1 2 3 Marist Brothers' Centenary: 100 years in Auckland 1885-1985, Marist Brothers, Auckland, 1985, p. 13.
  8. 1 2 3 Marcellin College Prospectus 2016 Archived 7 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved 10 June 2016)
  9. ↑ Marist Brothers School Vermont St Auckland Golden Jubilee 1913-1963, Marist Brothers, Auckland, 1963, p. 25.
  10. ↑ History of the college, Marcellin College website (Retrieved 19 June 20220
  11. ↑ "Brothers Plan Normal School". Zealandia. Vol. XXIV, no. 25. Auckland. 10 October 1957. p. 1.
  12. ↑ Tony Waters, Confortare, A History of Sacred Heart College, Auckland 1903 - 2003: a Marist Brothers secondary school, Sacred Heart College, Auckland, 2003, p. 139.
  13. ↑ Strevens 2008, p. 232.
  14. 1 2 Tony Eyre, "The Book Collector: Reading and Living with Literature"", Mary Egan, Dunedin, 2023, pp. 183 and 184.
  15. ↑ "Foundation principal appointed", NZ Catholic, July 3 - 16, 2022 (Retrieved 5 July 2022)
  16. ↑ Education Review Office, Marcellin College Education Review, 15 December 2014 (Retrieved 10 June 2016)
  17. ↑ Jessup, Peter (25 September 2004). "League Kiwi flavour to NRL showdown". NZ Herald. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
  18. ↑ Von Dincklage, Vaelei (13 May 2021). "Manu Sina excited to take on Australian Wallaroos". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  19. ↑ Bennett, Adam (9 August 2008). "Exhilarating ride may finally be over". New Zealand Herald . ISSN   1170-0777 . Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  20. ↑ "Artist reclaims and reframes Pacific narrative". Ministry for Pacific Peoples. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  21. ↑ Joseph Romanos, Chris Lewis: All the Way to Wimbledon, Rugby Press, Auckland, 1984, p. 43, ISBN   090863014X.

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