Our missions:
Teaching knowledge, confidence, creativity and generosity in loving and resposible service.
The education of girls and young women has always been and will continue to be one of our key ministry, especially in those parts of the world where girls and young women are often deprived of the opportunity of an education.
Both Mary Ward and Teresa Ball, 200 years later, responded to the growing need for the education of girls at a time when this was practically non-existent. This endeavour has continued in our Institute and today, with over Mary Ward educational establishments worldwide, we remain committed to the education of girls and young women. Our educational ministries include early learning centres, primary and secondary schools, as well as university colleges.
Inspired by Mary Ward’s and Teresa Ball’s initiative to provide a broad and varied curriculum for their students, our educational establishments are centres of learning where friendships are forged and faith is cultivated. We strive to provide a holistic education, promoting care of self and others as well as providing rigorous academic studies and a variety of extra-curricular activities.
In working with young people, our aim is to prepare leaders for the future. The charism of Mary Ward is an integral part of the formation of students, teachers and parents. Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation actions and networking with our IBVM UN NGO representative are actively promoted within our educational establishments.
Mary Ward educational establishments offer a Catholic education which liberates, empowers and motivates students to use their individual gifts with confidence, creativity and generosity in loving and responsible service.
The Mary Ward Education Network is made up of over 180 Mary Ward educational establishments worldwide. The Mary Ward Schools’ Compass identifies 8 markers which our educational establishments use to ensure that they continue to offer educational, co-curricular and student wellbeing programs which are relevant in a rapidly changing world and which empower students to become agents of change in a global society.
His gospel and our particular charism offer to an education centred on a profound way of living and learning, acting as a positive force for transformation of lives.
Content created by the Mary Ward School in Badalona
In many of our projects and missions, education also takes place outside of the formal school environment. We offer access to education and knowledge, for example in
We also increasingly work at tertiary level as more sisters qualify to teach at college and university level.
Mary Ward Schools’ Compass
The Mary Ward Schools’ Compass is a guiding educational document developed in 2017 at an international conference held in South Africa with sisters and representatives from Mary Ward educational establishments in 21 countries.
