St Andrew’s College Pre-school to Year 13 education
St Andrew’s College is the South Island’s only independent school offering Preschool to Year 13 education for both boys and girls. This year we celebrate 32 years since St Andrew’s became co-educational. The percentage of girls across the College is now 45 per cent.
At the end of 2023, we celebrated much success at our College Prizegiving at Wolfbrook Arena.
The student performance of Stairway to Heaven, which ended the event, became a phenomenon drawing world-wide acclaim. It certainly ended what was an already memorable year on a magical high.
This year, we are pleased to be opening our new Ngā Toi – Performing Arts Centre, incorporating the Gough Family Theatre. This wonderful new venue will complement the outstanding campus facilities St Andrew’s students already enjoy and further enhance the opportunities for music, drama and dance performance.
First and foremost, St Andrew’s College is a place of learning, with a focus on developing our students’ growth mindset and a love of learning. In the 2023 NZQA Scholarship examinations, our students achieved an impressive 64 Scholarships, with six of these at the Outstanding level. Our students’ NCEA results were also pleasing, with achievement across all three levels in the 98 and 99 percentile.
Taking part in our broad co-curricular programmes, whole-school celebrations, and service activities also helps our students to learn many valuable skills and attributes, which complement their academic learning.
In 2024, we are focussing on whole school initiatives of well-being, sustainability, Mātauranga Māori, innovation, student leadership, and targets for achieving personal excellence.
At our recent Leadership Assembly, we recognised a large number of students in Years 12–13, who are undertaking various leadership roles across the College.
We are delighted to have Head Prefects, Meg Simpson and Hugo Ranken, Deputy Head Prefects, Holly Maraki and Carter Rhodes, and Heads of Boarding, Gretal Tavendale and Alex Kinney, take up these positions in 2024.
In striking a unique blend between the traditional and the innovative, St Andrew’s has built a brand of education which adapts quickly to the demands of the present while holding true to the values of our founders.
This gives our young people a combination of freedom and boundaries which we believe results in graduates with roots and wings to flourish in an ever changing world.