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 | 1325 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is high) | 10 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 318 |
| Website | http://www.stac.school.nz |
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, (known as StAC for short) is currently lead by Rector Harvey Reece-Thomas.
St Andrew's has a wide range of activities available to the students, including hockey, rugby, netball, fencing, canoe polo, stage band or jazz band, 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.
In addition to the Pipe Band, the St Andrew's College Stage Band has had great success over the past few years, particularly in the Southern Jam Youth Festival, which is held annually in Blenheim. The band first competed in 2003, winning the festival with the Best Big Band Award. In 2004 they were stripped of their victory but came back on top in 2005, winning the festival again, as well as picking up several awards for including Best Vocals and Best Drummer. In 2006, the band picked up 1st place, also gaining Best Bass and Drums. Thomas Eves won Best Trumpet and Best Musician. The Band has also recently recorded another album.
The Theatre Sports team is one of the most valued parts of the College, with the Senior Team coming 2nd in 2005 and 2006 at the Court Theatre Competition. After a narrow loss in 2005's Junior Court Theatre competition, the Junior team took out the title in 2006.
The College's major sporting success of late was the winning of the Rankin Cup in 2001 and 2002. Since then the College has seen its boys' hockey 1st XI remain in the Rankin Cup and in 2006 the team won the local competition, cementing its place as the College's premier sports team.
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