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St Andrew's Cathedral School

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St Andrew's Cathedral School

Motto	Via Crucis Via Lucis "The Way of the Cross is the Way of Light"
Established	14 July, 1885
Head of School	Phillip Heath, BA (Hons), MA (Hons), DipEd, MACE, MACEA
Chairman of the School Council	Rev Stuart P Robinson
Location	Sydney NSW, Australia
Students	Around 1030 (2004)
Homepage	http://www.sacs.nsw.edu.au

St Andrew's Cathedral School in an Anglican day school (Years K-12) in the heart of the city of Sydney, Australia, with a co-educational Senior College (Years 10-12).

Because the School was founded from the Cathedral traditions, St Andrew's is legally supervised by the Cathedral Chapter which appoints and approves members of the School Council which was formed in 1979. The Council is responsible for administering the School's policies and formulating its mission and vision as well as appointing successive Heads of School.

Former pupils include Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, John Henry Antill, Tim Harding, Simon Tedeschi, and Alexander Gavrilyuk.

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School Prayer

O God our Heavenly Father, whose blessed son Jesus Christ, went about doing good and teaching the good news of Your Kingdom, we give you humble thanks for the inspiration of the founder of this School, and for the lives and influence of those who during the past yearshave built up its traditions.

Help us, we humbly beseech You, to find the way of the Cross, and in finding it, to follow more closely. Him who on the cross gave His life, that we might have the Light of Life,through Him who is the true Light, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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History

St Andrew's Cathedral School was founded by the third Bishop of Sydney, Dr Alfred Barry. The School was opened on 14 July 1885 in the St Andrew's Schoolroom in Pitt Street, Sydney.

At the School opening, Bishop Barry stated that St Andrew's was established to provide 'the choristers with a high-class, free education on Church principles, in addition to a musical training'.

In 1997 the School Council decided that St Andrew's students would be better prepared for post-school work, study and lifestyle choices if the School became co-educational in Years 10, 11 and 12. Accordingly in Term 1, 1999 the first 76 girls commenced in the Senior College. St Andrew's had become the only co-educational school in the City.

In 1999 the School's Student Business Club formed a working partnership with the Sydney 2000 Paralympics Organising Committee (SPOC) to raise awareness of the Games. In addition the students conducted a range of events over a two year period that ultimately raised $130,000 to help stage the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.

The Reverend Canon Melville Cooper Newth OBE, the 11th and longest-serving Headmaster of St Andrew’s Cathedral School, passed away peacefully on 21 October, 2004. He was aged 90. Canon Newth served the School as Headmaster for 38th years.

2005 marks the School 120th years of education in the city. At the same time, Mr. Phillip Heath celebrate his 10th Anniversary year as the Head of School. Philip started at St Andrew's Cathedral School on May 8 1995.

2005 also see the School Council confirmed the decision to vacate the Leadership and Enterprise Centre at 495 Kent Street (fondly known as the “Annex”).

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Cathedral Choir

The Cathedral Choir can trace its origins to the consecration of St Andrew's Cathedral in 1868 and this establishes this group as one of the oldest continuously active choirs in Australia. The choir comprises boy choristers and choral scholars from St Andrews Cathedral School as well as a group of gentlemen, known as lay clerks who sing the lower parts.

Through overseas tours and recordings St Andrews Cathedral Choir has won an international reputation and has accepted invitations to deputise for the resident choirs in such places as St Pauls Cathedral, London, Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster and many other important centres of Anglican worship. In 2002 the choristers appeared before HM the Queen at a Golden Jubilee concert in St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle and also made a significant contribution to the ANZAC day service in Westminster Abbey.

A number of choristers participated in the 2004 music tour to the USA although this tour differed from previous UK music tours because of the liturgy expectation in cathedrals visited by the School. In addition a number of cathedrals, including the Washington National Cathedral, offered mixed gender chorales so numerous female singers from St Andrew's also contributed to uplifting church choral music at these locations.

In 2005, St Andrew's Cathedral Choir has been invited to deputise for the choirs of Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, sing at All Souls Langham Place and also in Holy Trinity Pro Cathedral in Brussels from 27 March 2005 to 16 April 2005.

The choir has made several recordings and the latest CDs are Fairest Lord Jesus and Choral Evensong. The latter was produced from a service broadcast throughout Britain on BBC Radio 3 at the time of the Sydney Olympics.

During the school terms the choir sings at the morning Sunday service at 10.30am and at Evensong on Thursdays at 5.30pm. The choristers also sing a service of Morning Prayer (Matins) each Wednesday at 8.15am, sometimes augmented to full choir status by the inclusion of the lower parts.

Michael Deasey, the Master of Choristers was appointed to this post in 1981 following extensive experience in Canada and the United Kingdom. He has given organ recitals and conducted choirs in many countries throughout the world and has been a featured organ recitalist at Westminster Abbey.

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