St. Mary’s Cambridge School was established by the Mill Hill London Catholic Fathers in March 1949. Rev. Fr. Thijssen became the founding principal who started the school in the new Holy Family Hospital Building, Saidpur Road.

Later on, the Sisters of the old Holy Family Hospital were shifted to the new hospital building and the old hospital building in Murree Road was given to the Diocesan Board of Education to operate St. Mary’s Cambridge School.

In January 1956 St. Mary’s School, Chaklala was established and educated a number of boys until 1964 when it was handed over to the P.A.F. With the increasing demand for enrollments and the need for a boys school in the Cantonment area, St. Mary’s Academy was established at Lalazar in 1962 with a senior section accommodating classes from Class Six to Matriculation and Senior Cambridge.

The founding Principal was Rev. Fr. Patrick Byrne whose dream it was to eventually provide a comprehensive educational system from Nursery to A Levels and graduation. In 1966 the junior section commenced operation and in 1998 A level classes were added.

In 2007 the school offered HSSC classes to its graduating matriculation class. For a few years girls were also enrolled in the junior primary classes and currently forty five girls are enrolled for A Level studies.

Today St. Mary’s Academy offers classes for boys from Prep to HSSC and A Level preparing students to follow in the footsteps of earlier St. Marians who have taken their place as honorable and leading Pakistanis and world citizens.

St. Marians have excelled in academic and sporting fields and play an important role in Government, the professions, business and in the Defence Forces.

VISION

The school is under the management of the Diocesan Board of Education of the Catholic Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi. This board conducts a number of schools and other educational institution in the northern Punjab and NWFP based on a vision of working cooperatively in supporting and encouraging education initiatives in Pakistan which

• Help young people know and realize their own power to develop and transform themselves and society in a progressive realization of theKingdomofGod
• Focus on education for life, the development of the whole person, the integration of faith and culture in the changing world, acceptance of a social responsibility, the encouragement of critical thinking, the nurturing of the intellectual capacity to commit oneself to carry our responsible and meaningful tasks
• Inculcate values such as self respect, personal worth, open mindedness, tolerance, honesty, social responsibility and justice
• Reach out to all especially the marginalize
• Promote trust and co-operation between educators and the community they serve.

St. Marians are persons who

•  Have a strong values system that guides their decisions and behavior
•  Are articulate and thinking
•  Are well educated
•  Are committed to making a contribution to the betterment of their country and the wider community

CURRICULUM

• The school offers an innovative curriculum that aims to allow all students to
• achieve their maximum potential,
• pursue through both formal studies and their extra curricular activities wide ranging interests
• become critical thinkers in accessing and applying their knowledge….Click here for more…

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