New Zealand Boarding Week Boarders’ Assembly

New Zealand Boarding Week

St Andrew’s College joined with 100 other boarding schools around New Zealand to mark New Zealand Boarding Week, a fun way to celebrate all the great things about being a boarder. The week kicked off with a Combined Chapel Service, which saw around 500 students from all seven Christchurch boarding schools, gather in the Centennial Chapel for an evening of song, messages, and coming together as friends. The Year 9 boarders enjoyed the opportunity to ‘bring a buddy to lunch’ on the Monday of Boarding Week, and the entire boarding community got together for a special rib night dinner, with Mr Whippy for dessert. A morning tea and Open House for all support and teaching staff was a way for St Andrew’s boarding to thank those who do so much behind the scenes at the College. The week culminated with a Linking the Tartan event, which saw parents come together from the rugby and boarding communities for a ‘good old fashioned get together’, said Director of Boarding, Matt Parr.

Boarders’

Assembly

Dogs, chickens, lambs, and even a mechanical bull made an appearance at the annual Boarders’ Assembly, which is always a highly anticipated event. This year’s clever theme was based on Sir David Attenborough, exploring how the St Andrew’s ecosystem supports the life of a boarder, and transporting those in attendance to some of the far-flung places St Andrew’s boarders come from. Heads of Boarding, Charlotte Brown and James McLaren (both Year 13), led a team of enthusiastic Year 13 boarders through a varied programme of singing, dancing, and a mechanical bull ride-off. Sophie McNee and Moses Armstrong-Ravula (both Year 13) delivered an honest and reflective Morning Comment. The assembly was a wonderful expression of the positive boarding culture at St Andrew’s College, and the boarders and boarding staff within it.