It is essential that St Mary's keeps up to date with infrastructure development to ensure a world class school for its pupils.  To this end the School has, after careful consideration of the feasibility and benefits, embarked on the following projects:

The Aquatics Centre

One of the benefits of living in South Africa is that we can offer our children the opportunity of learning life skills through sports. A school like St Mary's would like to have outstanding facilities for all sports. Rowing, Hockey, Squash, Tennis and Netball have excellent facilities.

St Mary's has built an Aquatics Centre which was completed at the end of 2008.

The Aquatics Centre contains an Olympic size pool, a bulkhead which allows for a waterpolo pool and a short course competition pool.  There are six diving boards ranging from a 5m down to a half metre practice board.  There are change rooms for both genders and shaded grandstands for spectators as well as a refreshment pavilion.

Hence, the new Aquatics Centre will allow for participation in swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming.

This facility will be enjoyed by our girls and in turn their daughters.

The Education Centre - Project Edge

St Mary's provides a balanced education and excels in many academic, sporting and cultural arenas. Cultural activities, such as Music, Art, Dance and Drama are firmly entrenched in the curriculum to afford a truly holistic education to its students and the surrounding community.

The School has decided to undertake a much needed expansion to its current Music, Art, Dance and Drama facilities to provide additional Music, Art, Dance and Drama teaching and practice rooms as well as additional classroom space for the language department.  The centre will house a concert hall and an auditorium with a capacity to seat 530 people.  The current school hall falls far short of this capacity.

The new classroom space will enable the school to reconfigure some of its existing facilities to provide expansion in the Junior School Grade 3 classrooms.  The Junior School will benefit from the creation of a Drama teaching classroom, art rooms and more frequent use of the existing Senior School Hall. 

It is well known that there is a shortage of venues in Gauteng that offer capacity for 500 seats.  The venue will allow for choral rehearsal space, instrumental groups and theatre space for use by the community.  The facility will have a sprung floor for dance and this will double as an experimental theatre space.

In addition to being aware of developing the broader community, the School is also cognisant of the environment and has decided to ensure that the facility is as much a "green building" as can be afforded.