Please download the linked document at the bottom of this page which outlines St Mary’s School Conditions of Admission. This will need to be signed once you have been offered a place for your daughter.

In these Regulations and Conditions ‘Parent’ includes the Legal Guardian. ‘The Headmistress’ includes the Headmistress of the Junior School.

1. St Mary’s School is a Church school of the Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican). Pupils at St Mary’s must attend morning assemblies and services. No girls will be compelled to take part in practices not appropriate to their beliefs, but must attend and behave in a respectful and reverent manner at Chapel services.
2. Girls of St Mary’s must behave in a manner which does not bring either themselves or the name of the School into disrepute. The Headmistress reserves the right to punish girls for misbehaviour both in school and out of school. This may include suspension. The Parent agrees to adhere to any decision of the Headmistress in all matters relating to school organization and discipline. The Headmistress may require parents to withdraw their daughter, in cases of serious or repeated misconduct, or if, in the Headmistress’ opinion, it is in the interest of the School. Parents also are required to respect the ethos of the School and uphold its values.
3. Smoking and the drinking of, trafficking in or use of alcohol or drugs are forbidden. Any breach of this rule will be regarded as a very serious offence and could lead to the parents being required to withdraw their daughter from the School.
4. St Mary’s School considers itself a family in which all members support one another. No form of bullying is tolerated.
5. When a pupil is absent through illness, the parent shall inform the School by telephone. A formal letter from the parent to the pupil’s Form Mistress must be presented on her return to school. If a pupil is absent for more than three days, a doctor’s certificate is required.
6. Permission for absence during the school term for reasons other than illness must be obtained from the Headmistress.
7. During the year there are several compulsory functions and activities. These take preference over home or other personal or family activities.
8. Upon acceptance of a pupil and prior to admission, the Parent shall pay a deposit. If you have chosen to have the deposit refunded without interest when your daughter leaves the School, the deposit will be refunded only when the School receives payment of its final account after the pupil has left the School. If you have chosen to donate the deposit to the School and to have it allowed as a deduction for income tax, the deposit may not be revoked. The School shall be entitled, in its sole discretion, to appropriate the deposit or any portion thereof towards payment of any amount due to the School by the Parent from whatever cause arising at whatsoever time. The deposit is not refundable unless written notice is received by the School at least one full term before the place is due to be taken up, in which case half of the deposit will be refunded.
9. The Parent shall pay in advance, and no later than the first day of each term, the tuition fees as laid down by the School together with all other charges incurred on behalf of the pupil. These charges may be for extras arranged or supplied with the consent of the Parents or for extras which, in the opinion of the Headmistress, are necessary for the pupil.
10. The School will be entitled to charge interest from the first day of each termonall over due accounts at a rate to be determined by the Board from time to time. In the event of accounts being unpaid on the last day of term, the pupil will not be permitted to return to the School at the beginning of the following term.
11. A 5% discount on tuition fees is given if fees for the full year are paid at the beginning of the first term.
    This percentage is subject to review annually, at the School’s discretion.
12. The Parent agrees to give one full term’s notice in writing before withdrawing the pupil from the School, such notice to reach the Headmistress before the first day of the term preceding the term when such withdrawal is to take place. If the Parent fails to give such notice, the Parent shall be liable for payment in full of the fees for the term in question whether the pupil attends or not.
13. The Parent shall not be entitled to any rebate of fees if the pupil is absent for any portion of any term owing to illness or any other cause. In the event of a pupil leaving the School during a term, for any reason whatever and the Parent failing to give notice as required in (12) above, then the full term’s fees shall be payable and no refund of fees already paid for that term shall be claimable.
14. The School shall be entitled to instruct its attorneys or debt collectors to attend to the collection of any overdue accounts and the Parent shall be liable for payment of costs so incurred, on the scale as between attorney and own client, including collection commission, whether proceedings are instituted or not.
15. The School reserves the right to vary these conditions including the tuition fees and extras, from time to time, in its entire discretion after giving one term’s notice of its intention to do so. Failure by the School to enforce any of these conditions shall not constitute a waiver of the School’s rights.
16. The liability of Parents under these terms and conditions is joint and several, the one paying the other to be absolved.

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