Loreto College, Marryatville, South Australia, is an independent Catholic day and boarding school for girls in Adelaide that provides outstanding educational opportunities, for national and international students, with a broad range of subjects and co-curricular programs from Reception to Year 12. We have approximately 900 girls: 300 in each of the 3 sub-schools: primary, middle and senior. We also have a Montessori early learning centre for pre-school age children that caters for both girls and boys. In the middle years we offer the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program and currently the College is a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program. We are one of 7 Loreto Schools in Australia proud to be part of a 400-year international tradition. It is our privilege to continue the work of Mary Ward who founded a religious order for women, and her first school for girls in 1609. Mary Ward believed passionately in the potential of women to contribute significantly to society and the church. She said, “There is no such difference between men and women that women may not do great things.” Her vision that, “Women in time to come will do much”, was prophetic. We aim to ensure Loreto remains faithful, in all we do, to this time-honoured tradition by providing “a schooling of the heart”: where learning is “at the heart, from the heart and about the heart”. The essential elements of a Mary Ward education are : felicity, verity, sincerity, justice and freedom. At Loreto, our ultimate aim is to nurture the development of the unique person; to develop each student’s awareness of and response to others; and to bring the student to a knowledge and love of God. In so doing, we provide a Catholic education which liberates, empowers and motivates students to use their individual gifts with confidence, creativity and generosity, in loving and responsible service. A vigorous belief in the capacity and responsibility of women to contribute significantly to society and to..