Changes in a developing global, knowledge-based world, together with a growing understanding of how people learn, have shifted the focus of education from gaining and replicating knowledge, to developing students who can transfer and apply their knowledge both in and beyond the classroom.
Our Approach
When a child joins Sacred Heart College, he or she begins a journey that will carry them through to 18 and beyond.
Our curriculum runs seamlessly through every section and is designed to prepare your child for life in the 21st century. It teaches children and young people to think creatively and critically, to care and build flexible skills for a fast-changing world of new technologies.
Our Values
We are guided by the five Characteristics of our Founder, St Marcellin Champagnat
Simplicity
Relate with sincerity and openness
Avoid pretence and duplicity
Be humble and modest
Avoid elitism
Presence
Be present
Spend time with each other beyond the classroom
Listen to each other
Make an effort to understand the world
In the Mary’s Way
Reflect on the meaning of life
Be grateful for God’s love
Practise perseverance
Love of Work
Recognise work as an act of service and love
Do your work. Do it well
Appreciate the dignity of work
Balance work with rest and recreation
Family Spirit
Welcome all
Care for each other
Share responsibilities
Lookout and care for the weaker ones
The Marist History
The Marist Brother movement dates back to 1816, where Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest, tended to a young boy on his deathbed, who had no knowledge of God and His love. He founded an order of teaching brothers near Lyon. They called themselves The Little Brothers of Mary. As the Brothers grew in number, they travelled around the world, with their mission to make God known and loved. They arrived in South Africa in 1867 and began to transform the way the education system worked.
Global
The Marist Network
In South Africa, we have 6 schools – 4 schools in Johannesburg (Marist Brothers Linmeyer, Sacred Heart College, St David’s Marist Inanda and Dominican Convent School), 1 school in Durban (St Henry’s) and 1 school in Cape Town (St Joseph’s). There are around 3,000 Marist Brothers, 40,000 lay Marists, and 750,000 students in 600 Marist schools in over 80 countries on five continents.
14
Marist university hospitals
53 million
Educational books published each year
30
Centres of higher education
5 Marist schools in South Africa
Sacred Heart College
Johannesburg
Marist Brothers Linmeyer
Johannesburg South
St David’s Inanda
Johannesburg
St Henry’s Marist College
Durban
St Joseph’s Marist College
Cape Town