Sacred Heart College, Napier: In 1867 the school for ‘Young Ladies’ that would eventually become known as Sacred Heart College was blessed and opened. It was the first Catholic school and hostel established by the Sisters in New Zealand.
http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz
Saint Joseph’s Maori Girls’ College, Greenmeadows: St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College was founded in 1867. The college commenced on the property which is now Sacred Heart College, Napier when the Sisters and the Māori Missioner, Fr Reigner SM started a little boarding school for Māori girls at first called St Joseph’s Providence, which was opened on 10 October with twenty pupils. After the Napier earthquake of 1931 St Joseph’s was rebuilt on its present site at Greenmeadows and reopened in 1935. http://www.sjmgc.school.nz
Catholic Cathedral College, Christchurch: The Sisters arrived in Christchurch in 1868 and by December 1869 a Ladies’ School had been established and had 23 students. This school was to become Sacred Heart College in 1881. In 1987 the school amalgamated with the Marist Brothers’ school, Xavier College, to form an integrated co-educational secondary school, Catholic Cathedral College.
http://www.cathcollege.school.nz/
Sacred Heart Girls’ College, Hamilton: In August 1884 the Sisters began to teach thirty boys and girls in the Hibernian Hall in Hamilton. A month later in response to a request from parents they opened a “select school” in a cottage next to their dwelling. This was to eventually become Sacred Heart Girls’ College Hamilton which today has a role of over 850 students. http://www.shgcham.school.nz
Sacred Heart College, New Plymouth: The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions started a convent school with a boarding hostel in 1884. The school was for primary and secondary students, next to St Joseph’s Church in New Plymouth. In 1960, the Secondary school shifted to its present site on Pukaka Street and was renamed Sacred Heart Girls’ College.
http://www.catholicgirlsnp.school.nz
Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt: Sacred Heart College Lower Hutt was established by The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in 1912. Sacred Heart College was the first secondary school to be opened in the Hutt Valley and was originally sited on High Street on the property now known as Margaret Street.
In 1957 the College shifted to its present location in Laings Road. In May 1980 it became the first Catholic School to be integrated. At the time the role was 600 and since then there has been a steady increase in numbers with a present role of over 800.
http://www.sacredheartcollege.school.nz
Sacred Heart Girls College, Pukekohe: Edinburgh Street, Pukekohe – Opened 1923 – Closed 1964
1923 new school of St Joseph’s was built in Seddon Street and the Sisters, re used the old classrooms in the convent starting a secondary department, later named Sacred Heart College. The school was registered with the Education Department in 1931.
The College consisted of three classrooms, a library, science room, sewing room and typing room. A classroom near the rear entrance to the chapel was for standards 4 to 6. Along with two netball courts and the tuck shop built by Sr Sheila O’Toole.
1959 A new Secondary School was opened which consisted of a main block, and two free standing classrooms. One was the Form iv classroom and the other a well-equipped science block. The main building held two classrooms and a library. The typing room and sewing room in the boarding school continued to be used.
Boarders were also part of the college scene
1931 a Juniorate for girls interested in a religious vocation was opened with fifteen girls introduced which continued until 1964 when the school closed and the Juvenists transferred to Fairfield, Hamilton.