Southwell School

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Southwell School

Motto	Per Aspera Ad Astram
Type	Private Co-ed Full Primary (Year 1-8) with Boarding Facilities
Year established	1911
Address	200 Peachgrove Road, Hamilton
Principal	R Helm
School roll	610
Socio-economic decile (10 is high)	10
Ministry of Education Institution no.	4141
Website	www.southwell.school.nz

Southwell School is an independent co-educational Anglican preparatory school located in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is considered to be a feeder school for St Paul's Collegiate School, although significant numbers of its students go on to attend other schools, most commonly St Peter's School, Hamilton Boys' High School and King's College.

1 Houses
2 Opera
3 Notable former pupils
4 Notable former staff

[edit] Houses

Southwell School currently has 6 houses which are named after famous cathedrals in England.

Lincoln
Sailsbury
Winchester
Durham
Canterbury
York

[edit] Opera

Southwell School is famous for the top quality operas they perform annually. Operas in recent years include The Gondoliers, written by Gilbert and Sullivan, and Titanic:The Musical, written by Peter Stone and Maury Yeaston. Southwell School was the first primary/intermediate school in the World to perform this opera. They recently performed "Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat. This production was undeniably the best yet with Isaac Griffiths, Geoffrey Upton, Max Hay, Amy Ruddick and Jonny Schroeder.