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)	Unavailable
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 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. With the Senior Team coming 2nd in 2005 and 2006 at the Court Theatre Competition, the seniors will no doubt look towards victory in 2007. 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.