St. Peter's School (Cambridge)

St. Peter's School
Location
Private Bag 884, Cambridge
Coordinates	37°53′S 175°28′E
Information
Type	Private:Fully Reg Co-ed (Year 7-13) with Boarding Facilities
Motto	Structa Saxo "Built on a Rock"
Established	1936
Ministry of Education Institution no.	141
Principal	Steve Robb
School roll	Approx. 1050
Socio-economic decile	10
Website	stpeters.school.nz

St Peter's School, Cambridge is an independent, co-educational, Anglican secondary school for years 7-13 located in Cambridge, New Zealand. The School is located on 100 acres (0.40 km²) of ground, surround by school-owned farmland alongside the Waikato River.

The schools motto 'Structa Saxo' is Latin and translates to "Built on a Rock".

The school has extensive facilities made for Boarding and Day Students, as well as on Campus accommodation for Teachers, Tutors and Workers. The recent construction of the Robb Sports Centre is an example of this, with the sports centre including two indoor basketball or badminton courts with tiered seating for up to 200 people, a weights room, an aerobics studio, two squash courts and an artificial climbing wall. Construction has just been completed on a new block of English classrooms and a new library along with new computer rooms. The current English clasrooms will be used for Foreign Language, English as a Second Language, Religious Education and for the delivery of some special parts of the International Baccalaurate.

The School's history extends back to 1936, when it was founded by Arthur Broadhurst. St Peter's became a co-educational school in 1989.

Recently, the board of the school approved the International Baccalaurate programme to be taught alongside the current NCEA curriculum at year 12 and 13, effective 2009.

See also

• List of schools in New Zealand

External links

• St. Peter's School website