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As we begin our 113th year of educating young women's minds and hearts, it is with great pride that we reflect on our rich history and decades of cherished traditions. Most of all, we celebrate more than a century of nurturing the spiritual, intellectual, social, and moral development of students whose formal education has been entrusted to our care. True to our philosophy and mission, we have long been committed to addressing each individual's uniqueness and thereby strengthening her belief in herself and her seemingly unlimited potential. Many of our earliest graduates were pioneers in fields rarely open to women. Today, virtually 100% of our students go on to college immediately after graduation, often to some of the country's most prestigious. Our alumnae, who number more than 10,000, have distinguished themselves as women of great heart and right conscience through their leadership and service in the home, church, community, and professional lives. An independent, Catholic, college preparatory school, governed by a board of trustees, we have been located on a beautiful hillside property in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles since our founding by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1906. We continue to attract very talented and highly motivated young women who represent the religious, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity of the City of Los Angeles and its suburbs. Our students are immersed in an exciting and challenging curriculum that inspires a love of learning while demanding the focus and self-discipline necessary for success in college and beyond. Complementing the academic program, we offer a broad spectrum of extracurricular activities designed to help students explore their interests and tap into their unique gifts and talents. Immaculate Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school dedicated to intellectual vitality, spiritual growth, moral strength, and social-emotional development. Immaculate Heart fosters academic excellence and creativity in an environment that empowers students to become women of great heart and right conscience. Students embrace a life-long commitment to compassionate service, leadership, and humanitarian values. Immaculate Heart strives to fulfill its mission by its commitment to a Christian philosophy, its stated goals, its program of instruction carefully designed to meet the increasing needs of women in the contemporary world, its liturgies and days of recollection, its activities, and its policies and programs, which foster the spiritual, intellectual, social, and aesthetic development of the student. Also, Immaculate Heart's mission is facilitated by a competent, caring, and supportive administration, faculty, and staff who have the utmost respect for the uniqueness of the individual and their students' religious and ethnic diversity. While Immaculate Heart recognizes that parents are the primary educators of their children, the school assists parents by helping their daughters to develop in such a way that they will become women of great heart and of right conscience knowledgeable and concerned about the earth and the global community in which they live creative as problem-solvers capable of building on their appreciation of and acquired skills in the humanities and sciences aware that learning is a lifetime endeavor and convinced that, ultimately, all must develop within themselves a capacity for integrity, wisdom, humor, joy, peace, and love, to "make gentle the life of this world." Our Goals: To help students to mature in their faith, to refine their consciences, and to achieve a sense of moral power, as women, that will enable them to think and judge clearly and to live responsibly To help students to experience the satisfaction and joy that can be found in the learning experience and to develop an appreciation of and a readiness to pursue life-long learning To help students develop an understanding of and appreciation for the economic, religious, political, ethnic, cultural, and social diversity of the world, and to recognize the responsibility that each person has to contribute to the well-being of the global community and the care of the earth To help students to develop an appreciation of and proficiency in a language, science, mathematics, and the arts To help students to develop leadership skills and a life-long commitment to service To help students to experience the joy of being a member of a nurturing school community through collaborative learning, school-wide celebrations, and play and To help students to be competent and self-confident users of technology and wise consumers of information. The technology goal of Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School is to effectively prepare all students for a multicultural, global, digital, 21st Century world by providing them with the necessary resources and essential skills they will need for college and their future careers. These skills include the ability and confidence to use a broad range of technologies for problem-solving, research, productivity, communications, and lifelong learning. Technology should always improve student academic achievement and enhance the curriculum with challenging, purposeful instructional design. View full school

The College’s staff will keep in close contact with parents and mentor individual students throughout their education to be given the best possible means to develop holistically. View full school

The University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) traces its roots to the Beaterio de la Compaňia, the first community of indigenous women formed during Hispanic colonial times. Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a mestiza from Binondo who decided to serve the Divine Majesty by the sweat of her brow, started the Beaterio de la Compañia 1684. This community of indigenous women, now better known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM), has grown through the years. It has extended itself through its different ministries, especially in the area of education. The mission of the RVM in Mindanao started in 1902 when the late Rev. Superior General, M. Ma. Efigenia Alvarez sent three Sisters to Davao City. They were M. Severina Santos, Superior, M. Clara Ramirez, and M. Engracia Herrera. When they arrived in Davao, they met with the Hon. Teodoro Palma Gil, who was appointed Davao deputy representative to Governor-General Harrison. The pioneer Sisters stayed in the residence of the Palma Gil Family. University of the Immaculate Conception is committed to providing quality Ignatian Marian education to mold students to be Ignatian Marian leaders of faith, excellence, and service wherever they are at all times.UIC commits to collaboratively maintain and comply with an effective quality management system by periodically reviewing and validating its instruction, processes, and services against quality objectives and standards for continual improvement. The PAASCU accreditations characterize UIC's commitment to providing transformative quality Ignatian Marian education to all of its stakeholders to most of the institution's academic programs. This status about a university already hints that the organization focuses on achieving the highest performance it can deliver to establish effectiveness. To approximate our vision and live our mission, we dedicate all our human resources to transform the UIC family members to become enlightened, empowered, pro-active and liberated Christian leaders living in a humane and harmonious community for the love of God and love of country. With the increase in enrollment in 1906, the house of Mr. Cenon Rasay in San Pedro-Anda intersection was used as classrooms. In 1907, the construction of the Sisters' Convent was started in the San Pedro-Bolton-Claveria site. At the end of the year, the Sisters transferred to their new convent. Originally established exclusively for girls, the RVM Sisters laid the foundation starting as a parochial school named "Escuela Catolica de San Pedro" with only the introductory and intermediate courses offered and were given government recognition in 1933. When the high school opened in 1934, the school assumed the name "Immaculate Conception Academy," By 1938, the first batch of high school students graduated. By then, the school had been re-named "Immaculate Conception Institute." As World War II broke out in 1941, the school closed and was re-opened five years later. The school received government recognition for the high school level in 1947. A year later, the school was named "Immaculate Conception College (ICC)," which then offered initial two collegiate courses: Collegiate Secretarial and Pharmacy. In the fifties, from 1951-1958, Immaculate Conception College (ICC) opened additional courses: BS in Education, BS in Home Economics, BS in Music, and BS in Elementary Education. With the increasing enrollment and the demand for more courses, the following programs were added in 1961-62, namely: Liberal Arts, BS Commerce, and BS Medical Technology. In 1969, the Grade and High School Departments were moved to ICC's new site at Fr. Selga St. and followed by the College Department in 1971. Three more courses were then added: BS Chemistry, Pharmacy Aide, and BS in Nutrition and Dietetics. Moreover, in 1983-1986, four more courses were opened: Cafeteria Management, BS in Civil Engineering, MA in Theology, and MA in Elementary Education. In December 2016, as UIC continuously strive for quality education through accreditation, the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) through PAASCU awards UIC an Institutional Accreditation valid until November 2018. This type of accreditation is comprehensive. It indicates that the institution has achieved quality standards in all areas and is held in high regard in education (Source: PAASCU Handbook on Accreditation, p.9). Likewise, in the same year, Liberal Arts, Elementary and Secondary Education, and Business Administration programs were granted Level IV Accredited Status, valid until November 2018. Level IV accredited status is granted to highly respected institutions possessing very high-quality academic programs in the Philippines and prestige and authority comparable to similar programs in excellent foreign universities (Source: MORPHE p. 55). In May 2017, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) upgraded UIC's status from Deregulated to Autonomous. The University of the Immaculate Conception (UIC) takes on the challenge to lead in Humanities, Science, and Technology in a globalized society. She desires to provide transformative quality Ignatian Marian education, be relevant to the demands of the time, able to produce the ideal RVM Ignatian Marian graduate imbued with profound faith in God, inspired by the spirituality of humble service committed to a continuous search for excellence and achieve its vision of a transformed society where persons live their dignity as children of God enjoying the fullness of life in Jesus Christ. View full university

The Dominican House of Studies traces its mission to the preaching charism and Catholic intellectual heritage bequeathed to the Order of Preachers by its founder, St. Dominic de Guzman. Dominic constructed a religious order international in scope yet decentralized in structure to address the needs of the Church by preparing preachers, both intellectually informed and pastorally competent. This evangelizing mission is asserted in the primary claim of the Fundamental Constitution of the Order of Preachers that the Order was instituted "especially for preaching and the salvation of souls." To prepare preachers, Dominic established houses near the leading universities of his time. Students of the Order could follow a prescribed course of study in preparation for their pastoral work. Dominic insisted that spiritual formation is essential to the intellectual formation. The academic study was situated within a religious community shaped by ordinary life, liturgical prayer, modified monastic observance, a democratic form of government, and fraternal charity. St. Thomas Aquinas completed this vision by sharpening the speculative quest for truth within a broad Aristotelian framework, marked by a respect for the scientific method, freedom of inquiry, the broadness of scope, the precision of concepts, and largeness of spirit. Thomas remains even today guide and model of the Dominican intellectual life because of his docility of mind to Revelation, unwavering respect for the visible world and the human person, and unflagging commitment to think with and within the Church. The Dominican House of Studies is the direct heir to this theological and spiritual tradition that Dominic founded. Thomas developed a theological heritage, both speculatively inclined and pastorally charged, that spans eight centuries. In service to the Dominican Order's evangelizing mission, the primary purpose of the Dominican House of Studies is to provide a Catholic theological education that prepares students for the ordained ministry in the Province of St. Joseph. Recognizing the broad appeal of theological education in the Dominican tradition, the Dominican House of Studies accepts all interested and qualified students without regard to race, gender, religion, or ethnic background. The Dominican House of Studies is committed to imparting to all of its students a capacity for serious scholarship and basic competence in philosophy and theology through the study of St. Thomas Aquinas in dialogue with the best of contemporary thought. For ministry preparation, it offers a comprehensive program of studies integrated with spiritual and pastoral components to form students imbued with a desire for holiness, capable of effective preaching, and competent pastoral ministry. With an academic environment shaped by a Thomistic focus, a small student enrollment, and a high faculty-student ratio, the Dominican House of Studies fosters among students and faculty an intimacy conducive to the personal formation in the spiritual, intellectual, and ministerial spheres of preaching, teaching, and other ministries. The Pontifical Faculty believes that a bachelor's degree is essential preparation for theological study. Applicants for admission to the Pontifical Faculty are required to hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, from a college or university, regionally accredited in the United States or Canada. Taking courses at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception is a great way to continue to learn and grow in the Catholic Faith. To serve those who wish to further their education and their professional competence, but who do not currently desire to embark on a full degree program, the PFIC offers courses on an individual basis. Courses may be audited or taken for credit throughout the year. Persons who have earned a B.A. degree or equivalent from an accredited institution may take up to four courses per semester as a non-matriculated student. Admission as a Non-Degree Seeking (N.D.S.) student does not constitute admission to any degree program. However, suppose such a student should later apply for admission to a degree program. In that case, course credits earned in the non-degree seeking study may be applied to the degree, and the application fee for the degree would also be waived. Persons may also audit courses to understand that no papers or examinations will be required or graded, and no academic credit will be given. All N.D.S. students must submit an application, official transcripts, an application fee, and a recent photo. Students who attend the PFIC are most concerned with intellectual and spiritual growth, and the school is ordered to provide an atmosphere conducive to that end. As the genuine study of theology requires living a life of grace, the PFIC offers many opportunities to grow spiritually. All students are welcome to join the Dominican community for prayer, both for Mass and the Divine Office. The chapel is open for personal prayer throughout the day. Many Dominican priests are available as confessors or spiritual directors, and special Masses and adoration are offered for the students throughout the year. One of the unique benefits of study at the PFIC is studying alongside many Dominicans and other diocesan and religious seminarians and priests, whose joy and dedication foster hope for the future of the Church. There is a student lounge where students gather between classes to relax with some coffee and conversation, and the library provides a pleasant and quiet place to study. Also, throughout the year, there are occasional casual gatherings and outings planned for the non-Dominican students. The students elect a student representative who regularly meets with the administration to foster a healthy and happy relationship and experience. View full university

We aim to provide the very best education we can. As a successful school with high achieving pupils, we will demand the best of them, but also support and guide them to ensure they can succeed at everything they do. Our Mission is to be a Catholic School that promotes positive relationships founded on the gospel values of respect, care, compassion, and love. We firmly believe that each individual can discover, develop and achieve their full potential to take their place in our ever-changing world. Our core purpose is to “achieve the best for all. This philosophy is at the heart of everything we aspire to do for each member of our community. Ours is a relatively small secondary school which helps us to build strong relationships and to get to know each student as an individual, creating a family-like atmosphere. There is an outstanding pastoral care system in place, which Estyn praised. Pupils can be offered bespoke support and the school works with a wide array of external agencies. As you will see from the data included in this prospectus, Mary Immaculate High School is a high achieving school. The progress young people make is excellent, not only for the more able students but for every child, including those who have learning difficulties or special needs. The staff works exceptionally hard to try to get the best possible results for every pupil. Central to the smooth running of a school are high standards of discipline. We believe that good behavior and respect are essential and we work hard to maintain high standards, expecting and receiving support from parents. The school is proud of its rich extended school program with numerous clubs and activities available each day for an hour after school, with an additional late bus for those who wish to stay. We encourage all of our students to take part in at least one of these. View full school

The school is a Catholic Voluntary Aided School for boys and girls in the 3 to 11 age range. The school is comprised of a Foundation Stage with 52 part-time places and two full-time Reception classes, four Key Stage One classes, and six Key Stage Two classes. The main catchment area is the parish of Our Lady Immaculate, Everton, Liverpool 5. Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Primary School is based in Everton near Liverpool city center. We want our school to be very much at the heart of the community we serve and we look to work with parents, carers, and the local community to ensure we not only have a positive impact on the lives of our children but also on anyone who may come into contact with our school for whatever reason. We do all this while recognizing Christ’s love in every person. Our mission is to develop a Christ-centered community that recognizes Christ’s love in every person and reflects the gospel values in everything that we do. We are a Catholic school, one family living and learning together in faith. Provide a safe, caring environment where we share strong, positive relationships and have respect for ourselves and others. To achieve this aim the school will: Ensure that the school provides a safe and secure environment for all Through our example, enhance pupils self-esteem, self-respect, and respect for others Deliver a strong PHSE curriculum to support the children’s social and emotional development Work with the children and school community to embed the school code of conduct Provide the children with opportunities to express feelings, thoughts, and concerns and develop strategies to resolve issues positively and respectfully Invite parents into school to share in celebrations, assemblies, and social events Educate our children within our Catholic faith, fostering an awareness of oneself as a member of a family, school, parish, and our wider community. To achieve this aim the school will: Value all children as unique Celebrate together an act of collective worship each day and develop the prayer life of the school enabling the children to pray in a variety of ways Monitor and assess pupils progress within religious education, to ensure effective learning and celebrate growth and achievement and enable further progress Offer equal opportunities to all and promote racial tolerance Be involved in the initiatives and developments of the local community Work with all outside agencies to promote the health, emotional, environmental, and social needs of our community Promote understanding of citizenship, religious diversity, and equality Take part in charitable events and fundraising so that the children understand that we can all contribute positively and help others around us Foster strong links and positive relationships with our sister primary schools (Holy Cross and Trinity) and with Notre Dame Catholic College, our feeder secondary school Raise standards and set high expectations for the personal development and academic potential of all. Encourage and support each child so that they develop the skills to become an integral member of our society today and in the future. Our core curriculum is made up of English and maths, taught primarily in the mornings. The English curriculum consists of reading, writing, and GPS (Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling). Maths is also woven into foundation subjects through science and the learning challenge curriculum. Maths lessons are taught through School Improvement Liverpool and MathsHUBS White Rose Mastery plans. The curriculum we teach is built around the National Curriculum programs of study and aims. As a Catholic school, we also teach the ‘Come and See’ Religious Education Programme as well as the SRE program ‘Journey of Love’. Our Lady Immaculate Early Years vision is to provide the very best care and education to every child through quality interactions and play-based experiences, which build upon children’s interests and curiosity of the world around them. We are committed to ensuring full coverage of the EYFS Curriculum 2014 as well as acting upon current research into effective Early Years pedagogy when planning purposeful, first-hand experiences and opportunities. We enable children to be active, independent learners by providing a safe, stimulating, and exciting indoor and outdoor learning environment, in which children are encouraged and supported to develop critical thinking skills to achieve their maximum potential. Our Early Years setting provides children with a stimulating indoor and outdoor environment in which children are given opportunities to express themselves, apply new skills, set their challenges, and manage their risks through play, exploration, and investigation. View full school

Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University is a new university for women that opened on April 1st, 1994. We take an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to education based on the underlying principles of Christian humanism. This university has a graduate school of Human Science, specializing in Clinical Psychology, and two faculties: the Faculty of International Human Studies and the Faculty of Nursing and Nutrition. Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University is located in Satsumasendai City in Kagoshima Prefecture, situated in the southernmost part of Kyushu, one of the four main islands that make up Japan. Kagoshima Prefecture has long been a doorway for the intake of innovation from overseas. The people of Kagoshima are well known for their enterprising spirit. Inspired by the Christian belief that each person has an irreplaceable value and role in this world, Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University wishes to be an academic community where staff and students work together to discover each person's intellectual potential and develop it into a well-trained and mature personality. The Graduate School of Human Science aims at producing highly-qualified researchers in clinical psychology through its master's program, who can also offer, as well-trained specialists, appropriate and adequate support in various fields such as education, medical services, and mental health care in the industry. The Faculty of International Human Studies has two different fields, language and culture studies and an interdisciplinary study of childhood and youth, which are both fundamental in dealing with the modern world's problems. Nursing and Nutrition are vital to enhancing the quality of life for all people, whatever their physical condition. Recent incidents throughout the world convince us of the urgent need for mutual understanding and tolerance between peoples of different racial and cultural backgrounds. The best and most natural way to achieve this is, of course, through direct contact taking place in conducive circumstances. Study overseas at Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University provides this opportunity in the most suitable environment. Kagoshima has a long tradition of positive attitudes towards other cultures, and the overseas students of our university are well received by the local people here in Satsumasendai City. Knowledge should lead to love through understanding. Our university is dedicated to Our Lady's Immaculate Heart, full of the love of God and humankind. Under her graceful guidance, let us prepare ourselves to play whatever role is expected of us in the present society to restore peace and harmony in our world. Being a small, closely-knit community, Kagoshima Immaculate Heart University has ample opportunities for a full and active social and sporting life. The university has a well-equipped sports hall. Clubs include tennis, volleyball, and badminton. There are also various cultural clubs featuring traditional Japanese activities such as flower arrangement, tea ceremony, and Kimono-dressing. View full university

Mary Immaculate English Medium School was founded in the year 2013. It is an English medium Co-educational Independent school affiliated to CBSE with affiliation number 931305 and has a General affiliation which is valid up to 31/3/2022. It is located in the Alappuzha district of Kerala and is currently being managed by the Society Of Sisters Of Mary Immaculate Of Bishop Morrow, Bangalore, Kerala. It is presently under the principal -administration of MISS SMITHA GEORGE. You can find other information about the school in the tables below. NATURE OF THE SCHOOL Category of School Co-educational Medium of Instruction English Types of School Independent View full school