Facilities

Complementing the aesthetic beauty of the campus, the school boasts some of the finest facilities in Southern Africa.

Sports facilities include 8 rugby fields, 9 tennis courts and 5 squash courts. The school has access to the astroturf at Rhodes University for hockey, as well as having 4 grass fields of its own. There are three swimming pools, an Olympic sized pool used for waterpolo, a heated pool for year-round training, and a third pool for recreational activities in the heat of Grahamstown’s summer weather. Cricketers can practice in 14 nets with the use of bowling machines and play on seven turf wickets.

The David Wynne Music School is shared with DSG. It consists of a concert room, five teaching rooms and 12 practice rooms. Here the wind orchestra, the jazz band, the chamber orchestra, the string and brass quartets and the chapel and chamber choir practice and prepare for their performances.

The Cawse Library is run by two qualified librarians and an assistant. It is fully computerised and is equipped with a CD Rom server. Pupils have access to the Internet and our own Intranet for research purposes.

The Art Department has well equipped senior and junior art studios as well as an audio-visual room where History of Art is taught.

The Design and Technology Centre is widely recognised as one of the finest in the Southern Hemisphere. In a sense it is the intellectual nerve-centre of the school and activities conducted in the Center are focussed on cross-curricular work and creative thinking. The building has an extraordinary "cutting-edge" atmosphere to which pupils respond with resourcefulness and ingenuity when faced with a range of problems.

120 computer terminals are linked by a network and the computer rooms have two full-time information technology teachers and a network manager. On-line facilities exist for teachers and pupils to find resources for their subjects and assignments. A range of projects, from research to presentations and programming, is undertaken. The extensive network encourages collaboration between the pupils of St Andrew’s and DSG, and those of other schools. Email provides for a social and communicative aspect of computer usage and each boy, on acceptance to College, is given an E-mail address.