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Late 2021*

Waitaha Canterbury Youth Award Oscar Bloom (Year 13) won The Collective Success and ELG Supreme Award for Christchurch for his dedicated service, not only to the Environment Canterbury Youth Rōpū, but to a number of other activities.

Year 9 Community Service Day Year 9 students participated in a Community Service Day, which started with a presentation from the Environmental Council, before the students were split into class groups and were given an area around New Brighton to pick up rubbish. After lunch, the students repotted plants that will then be replanted in the Christchurch Red Zone in 2022.

Year 9 students repotting plants.

Year 12 Business Year 12 Business team Stinky Cars, made up of Patrick Ryan, Joshua Carr, Tom Turner, Zach Hedgcock and Wyatt Gowans, created car air fresheners as their business, and donated $1300 of their profits to the Chalky Carr Trust after running a successful social media campaign. Honouring his greatgrandfather’s sacrifice Toby Cammock-Elliott (Year 12), a member of the St Andrew’s Pipe Band, played the Military Lament at a special ceremony in the Dutch town of Lochem, wearing his St Andrew’s College Pipe Band uniform, to honour his late grandfather, Raymond, who served as a pilot Flying Officer in WWII. Raymond flew his plane directly into an enemy ammunition train, paying the ultimate price. Toby and his family travelled to the Netherlands to attend a ceremony, and the opening of a new tunnel, called Flying Officer R J Cammock in honour of Raymond’s bravery and sacrifice.

So They Can theme day On Thursday 10 March, the Community Service team held a blue-themed day in the Secondary School in support of charity So They Can, with students and staff wearing various shades of blue clothes to co-ordinate with the charity’s colours. A total of $1669 was raised for Mwikantsi Primary School in Tanzania, the partner school of St Andrew’s through So They Can. Other funds raised by St Andrew’s for So They Can supports the charity’s important work supporting 45,000 children and their communities in Kenya and Tanzania through 37 schools, a teachers’ college, microfinance, a children’s village, and clinics. The Community Service team also ran a quiz, during tutor time, when whole tutor groups participated to win prizes.

* Please note the use of 2021 year groups.

2022

Students creating Easter crosses.

Tonga Appeal St Andrew’s College joined with other Presbyterian schools around the country to raise money for Tonga, in response to January’s devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami. Head Sacristan, Sarah Anthony (Year 13), and the Community Service Leaders, under the creative guidance of Catering Manager, Russell Gray, worked to create 1176 chocolate Easter crosses. In exchange for a donation, prefects and Community Service Leaders delivered a box of chocolate Easter crosses to every tutor group in the College, raising $944.20 for the appeal.

Luke Wylie, Mia Walker and Jack Guest (all Year 12) and the impressive Bake Sale.

Baking for the Ukraine A group of Year 12 students, led by Juliette Noordanus and Mia Walker, encouraged their peers to bring along some baking as a way of raising funds to support the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. Their Bake Sale raised $927.00 for the World Central Kitchen, a Non-Profit Organisation which is feeding Ukrainian refugees.