Vision and Mission
St Andrew’s College
• Is a 450-strong boys’ boarding school, founded in 1855.
• Is a community of committed staff and pupils, six boarding houses (420 beds) and excellent facilities.
• Participates in a unique family of integrated learning with the Diocesan School for Girls and St Andrew’s Preparatory School.
• Is located in Grahamstown, an Eastern Cape city with a national and international reputation as a centre of education, religion and culture.
• Enrols the main core of our boys from the Eastern Cape (including dayboys in Grahamstown), together with significant numbers from Gauteng, the southern and western Cape, and from southern, central and east African countries and beyond. It is therefore a local, national and international school.
The School Motto
Nec Aspera Terrent
Difficulties do not dismay us
Our Statement of Strategic Intent
Embracing New Frontiers
Our Vision
To be the boarding school of choice in Africa
Our Mission
• We are passionate about ensuring that each of our boys is schooled for life, develops character and strives to reach his full potential.
• We celebrate the following values and attributes at the core of our educational mission: honesty, confidence, independence, service, hard work, tenacity, humility, friendship, and ‘doing the best you can’.
• We seek to live out a Christian ethos as an Anglican foundation within a multi-cultural society.
• We strive to create a happy and fulfilled boarding experience.
• We offer a very wide choice of academic subjects and extra-mural activities.
• We reward effort and participation, and we promote success and excellence.
Our Mission Objectives
To embrace new frontiers as the boarding school of choice in Africa through
1. Renewing the Founder’s vision of a church school which nurtures balanced personal and spiritual growth.
2. Striving for excellence and innovation in teaching and learning.
3. Creating a strong sense of belonging, friendship and House ethos in a quality boarding environment.
4. Promoting a welcoming school for staff, boys and parents through effective communication and the creation of welcoming spaces.
5. Developing the potential and ensuring the enjoyment of each Andrean in sport, the Arts, culture and outdoor education, and promoting excellence in all of these.
6. Embracing South Africa’s future by developing a vigorous programme of local community engagement and service to others.
7. Ensuring optimal professional growth and skills development of our staff.
8. Maintaining sound, efficient and effective systems to support the governance, administration and management of the school as a community of pupils, staff and parents.
Amended (Feb 2005) after Council Strategic Planning Meeting and Staff Meeting discussions and the Combined Council Executive and Finance Committee meeting of 22 February 2005; Staff Planning Workshop 7-8 May 2006; Staff Master Planning meetings 9 and 15 March 2007.
Sir Henry Strakosch Memorial Scholarships 201229th January 2012
To encourage and reward excellence in Science and Maths
18th January 2012
Three College boys travelled to Kampalato to join this amazing experience.
