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Ursuline schools began over 560 years ago. In the year 1535, the Order of St Ursula was founded by St Angela Merici, in Brescia, Northern Italy. St Angela saw her task as the formation of educated Christian women. She encouraged her sisters in faith, and St Ursula's School is one of the wonders brought by such faith, effort and confidence.
The history of the Ursuline's is one of pioneering and adventure - they were the first female teaching order to venture out into the New World, as missionaries. Today there are Ursuline schools in 26 countries all over the world, which means that we are part of an international community of private, Catholic schools.
In 1895, the first group of six Ursuline sisters from Sittard, Holland, arrived in Mozambique. They made their way to Barbeton where they started a school, with great success.
In 1902 a second group left Sittard. They started an additional private Catholic school in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, which flourished. Continual requests were made to open an Ursuline school in the small mining and farming town of Krugersdorp, on the West Rand.
In 1903 circumstances made it possible for the sisters to buy 13 acres of land in Krugersdorp North, and this is where St Ursula's School stands today. The property consisted of an old farmhouse standing on uncultivated veld and was purchased for 7500,00.
St Ursula's School opened on the 9th February 1904, with five boarders and 12 day scholars.