St Andrew's College, Christchurch
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| St. Andrew's College | |
| Motto | Fides et Patria |
| Type | Private, fully reg. (Years 1-13) |
| Year established | 1917 |
| Address | Papanui Road, Merivale, Christchurch |
| Principal | Harvey Rees-Thomas (Rector) |
| School roll | 1294 (based on 2004 roll) |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is high) | Unavailable |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | |
| Website | [1] |
St. Andrew's College Christchurch, New Zealand is a private, co-educational school that enrolls from Pre School-Year 13. It was founded in 1917 and is the only independent, co-educational primary and secondary school in New Zealand's South Island. Although now a fully co-educational school, it was formerly an all-boys school. It became fully co-educational in 2000. St Andrew's is currently the only school in New Zealand to be a member of Round Square.
St Andrew's (or StAC for short) has a wide range of activities available to the students, including hockey, rugby, netball, fencing, canoe polo, chess, string ensemble, concert band, pipe band and many more. The pipe band is regarded as one of the best juvenile/college pipe bands in New Zealand, if not the best. The band is currently run by Richard Hawke (piping) Ian Steel (midsection) and Scott Mitchell (side section) with other tutors in the grade 4 band. The band won the aggregate, street march, juvenile, set and various other cups at the 2006 nationals.
Not to be outdone, the Theatre Sports team is one of the most valued parts of the College. Coming 2nd in the last two years at the Court Theatre Competition, the team will no doubt look towards victory next year.
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