Each year, since 2006, the Altiora Peto Award has been presented at the Founders Day Assembly.

The selection committee has requested that Members be invited to put forward names of Old Boys who might be considered as appropriate candidates for the Award.

The criteria for the Altiora Peto Award are set out below. Members wishing to propose candidates for this prestigious Award should forward names, plus brief details of the candidate’s career and achievements, to the Association Secretary.

(The recipient will be required to attend the assembly to receive the Award and present a speech to the assembly.)

The Christchurch Boys’ High School Old Boys - Altiora Peto Award
‘Scholarship, Service, Sport and Spirit’

The Altiora Peto Award:

Recognises the outstanding character and achievement of a past student of the School. The recipient will best reflect the School’s motto ‘Altiora Peto’ – ‘I seek higher things’; he will be a fine role model for the young men of today’s school.

The Altiora Peto Award:

• is presented at the annual Founders’ Day Assembly on or near May 18th
  
• the first awards were presented in 2006, on the occasion of the School’s 125th Reunion
  

The Awardee:

• is presented with the Altiora Peto Medal – and then speaks to the School, reunion groups, invited Old Boys and other guests at the Founders’ Day Assembly
  
• is recognised on the Altiora Peto Honours Board that is to hang in the School Hall
  
• is recognised in articles in the School Magazine and the Old Boys Newsletter. Wider media are made aware of the assembly and of the awardee.
  

The Selection Criteria:

• national and/or international achievement in one or more of the areas of ‘Scholarship, Service, Sport and Spirit’
  
• a fine role model for past and present young men
  

The Selection Process:

• a timeline details the process
  
• the Selection Committee seeks the names of possible awardees from regional associations and Old Boys
  

Awardees:

2006 - Walter Arnold Hadlee / Charles Seymor Luney / Sir Lawrence Herbert Govan
2007 - John Frederick Burrows
2008 - Christophe Keith Doig
2009 - Sir Richard John Hadlee
2010 - Peter West England
2011 - Sir Graham William Henry
2012 - Barry John Maister
2013 - Prof Emeritus Robin Wayne Carrell
2014 - Ian Charles Athfield
2015 - Hon David Francis Caygill
2016 - Selwyn Gerald Maister
2017 - David Conway Hopkins OAM
2017 - Anson William Austin
2018 - Dr John Wood