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[yiannis08]

Has anyone got any good feedback on St Mary's school.
Im thinking of sending my daughter there next year.
I hear that it is the cheapest amoung teh other private English schools.
I have heard good things about the school, but my concern is that they seem to focus on languages too much so I've heard
Any ifo would be appreciated

[juliesewell]

All I can tell you is that the hairdresser (an English lady) in the village next to ours sent her daughter there when they first came to Cyprus and was very pleased with the school.

It's a catholic school but pupils don't have to be practising catholics and the entrance exam is about 90 minutes long, which came as a bit of a shock as they were only expecting a "test"....

[yiannis08]

Thank for the info

[Greek_Cypriot_N_Proud]

I used to go to St Marys about 15 yrs ago. It was a good school, and did focus around the four languages: greek, english, italian and french. I learnt much there, but found it difficult to adjust to being taught by nuns!!

[Paphitis]

I still have nightmares about Nuns. My father sent me to Private Catholic Schools, and I remember in Primary school I use to always cop the ruler edge right across my knuckles. Ouch, that hurt so much. Never really did understand why, as I was such a well behaved boy.

Anyway, they did eventually mould me into a fine upstanding citizen.

[Get Real!]

Has anyone got any good feedback on St Mary's school.
Im thinking of sending my daughter there next year.
I hear that it is the cheapest amoung teh other private English schools.
I have heard good things about the school, but my concern is that they seem to focus on languages too much so I've heard
Any ifo would be appreciated

If this is the one in Limassol, my daughter graduated from there a couple of years ago. It’s overpriced, the nuns were pompous bitches, and the half-baked multi-language studies don't give a diverse employment scope so I wouldn’t enroll another kid there again.

[tassiesheila]

Get real i appreciate where your coming from. I was a product of an army officers upbringing, and palmed off to a boarding school in Nicosia and Larnaca St Josephs Scool. The army subsidised the school fees I believe but what should have been the happiest years of my life were horrendous, the nuns were total sadistic bitches.... hence I soon stopped being a Cathelic and converted to buddism! Convent schools is not a normal atmosphere to educate a child within, they are all sexually frustrated and this frustration is let onto the kids. I can imagine today they wouldnt pass a police criminal check for child abuse either!

[miltiades]

My daughter wanted to send her little girl , my granddaughter to St . Marys . I suggested that they ought to consider the DIMOTIKO at Ayios Athanasis , modern building and the kids get to learn their contrys language first before going on to an English school perhaps at at the age of 12 or so. The schooling in Cypriot schools I beleive is as good as any other school with the added advantage of learning properly the language of your people.

[waldorf]

Paphitis,

although there were no Nuns involved, I attended for a year the Terra Santa School in Nicosia, in the very late 50s.
What a knuckle bashing experience for an innoocent kid !
For example, just because the school bus was late to arrive... ?