Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School
| Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School Centre for Self-Directed Learning |
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3200 Kennedy Road Steeles, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, M1V 3S8 Canada |
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| Coordinates | 43°48′46″N 79°18′18″W / 43.8127°N 79.3050°WCoordinates: 43°48′46″N 79°18′18″W / 43.8127°N 79.3050°W |
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| School type | Catholic High school |
| Motto | Because We Believe |
| Religious affiliation(s) |
Roman Catholic (Loretto Sisters) |
| Founded | 1985 |
| School board | Toronto Catholic District School Board |
| Superintendent | Kevin Malcolm Area 7 |
| Area trustee |
Mike Del Grande Ward 7 |
| School number | 544 / 730882 |
| Principal | Andrea Magee |
| Grades | 9–12 (Non-semestered) |
| Enrollment | 1067 (2016-17) |
| Language | English |
| Area | Northwest Scarborough |
| Colour(s) | Red and Blue |
| Team name | Ward Wolverines |
| Newspaper | Mary Ward Planet |
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TTC: North/South: 43 Kennedy West/East: 42 Cummer Rapid Transit: Kennedy, Finch |
| Parish | Epiphany of Our Lord |
| Specialist High Skills Majors | Health Care and Construction Technology |
| Program Focus | Extended French Self-Directed Learning |
| Website | [1] |
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School (abbreviated Mary Ward C.S.S., MWCSS, MW, Mary Ward, or simply Ward) is a Roman Catholic secondary school of the Toronto Catholic District School Board in Scarborough, a district of Toronto. Also called the Wolverine's Den, Mary Ward is a unique centre of self-directed learning and a member of the Canadian Coalition of Self-Directed Learning. It is one of only two self-directed learning schools currently in Ontario and seven in Canada. The school is named after Mary Ward, a seventeenth-century English Catholic nun who founded the Loreto Sisters.
We should be such as we appear, and appear such as we are
Ward was born to Marmaduke Ward and Ursula Wright. Mary's first word was "Jesus", which was a sign of things to come. Mary was born at a time of great conflict for Roman Catholics in England. She was born in Ripon and in 1595 saw her family home burned down in anti-Catholic rioting. As the home was burning, Mary and her sisters knelt down and prayed for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary; the children were saved by their father. In 1599 she moved to the house of Sir Ralph Babthorpe at Osgodby, Selby. It was there at the age of 15 that Mary felt called to the religious life. She entered a monastery of Poor Clares at Saint-Omer in northern France, then in Spanish Flanders, as a lay sister in 1606 and the following year she founded a new monastery of the Order for English women at nearby Gravelines.
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