Queen Margaret College, Wellington

Queen Margaret College is an independent girls’ school in Wellington, New Zealand, providing education for students from Year 1 to 13 with a co-educational Pre-School.

The students have numerous opportunities for involvement, high-level performance and leadership through sporting and cultural activities and extensive exchange programmes with sister schools.

Queen Margaret College also has an extensive exchange programme with sister schools from Chile, Tahiti, France, Australia, China, Europe, US and Japan encouraging language development and global citizenship.

[citation needed] Queen Margaret College was founded on its present site in Hobson Street, Thorndon, in 1919 as an independent girls' school by the Hon John Aitken and The Very Rev.

Its general aim as stated in the first prospectus was "to provide for girls a sound intellectual and moral education, and to build up strong Christian character on board religious basis, and thus to develop the best type of girlhood and womanhood".

The Queen Margaret College Tower Building is registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category II structure, with registration number 1419.

Queen Margaret College