St Peters Indooroopilly's 2021 Prefects got busy getting muddy at Ironbark recently, completely immersing themselves in their Leadership Camp experience. Since returning to Brisbane, they’ve hit the ground running, leading by example and proving that the College’s future is in good hands.

Instead of being a time for wrapping up and finalising assessment, the end of Term 4 marked a chance for St Peters Indooroopilly’s Year 10 Business and Technology students to learn about digital technologies, entrepreneurial opportunities and innovation from a panel of industry experts.

​We are nearing the end of the school year—a year unlike any other in so many ways. When we gathered on the Concourse for our Founders’ Day Service in January, none of us had any inkling of what lay ahead.

In the lead-up to the centenary of Rotary Australia, the Rotary Club of Kenmore donated a Peace Pole to our Upper Primary students. The pole, one of just 100 donated in Australia, was officially welcomed by our Year 6 students on Tuesday 5 November, 2020—in the College’s 75th year.

During the extraordinary circumstances of 2020 we noticed our students adapted and developed exceptional skills including—innovation, resilience, problem solving, perseverance, creativity, optimism — skills identified in our St Peters Springfield Graduate Tree.

Part of our job as parents and teachers is to encourage our children to explore, to challenge and to take risks while we walk alongside supporting and guiding them. We need to pick them up when they fall down, and celebrate with them when they fly high.

During their holidays most people were relaxing but St Peters Springfield students — Bailey S. (Year 12) and Harry S. (Year 10) cycled over 1,000 km and raised over $10,600 for charity. Their challenge began on Monday 21 September and went to Sunday 27 September.

Today, we recognised RUOK day which is an annual day reminding us that we need to check in on others throughout the year and a time to ensure we have the check-in skills needed to support others if they are not OK.

Appreciating or recognising the positive qualities of someone or something flows into gratitude, one of the qualities on our graduate tree. Being grateful for the blessings that enrich our lives leads us to compassion.

The annual St Peters Multicultural Week is one of the College’s key calendar events. Celebrated, typically, as a whole-of-College event, the pinnacle of the week is the Parade of Nations ceremony. This year, we united online to celebrate what makes our community unique: our cultural diversity.

It is our challenge as parents and educators to create optimal conditions for growth, to protect and nurture curiosity and creativity which leads to learning and innovation and empowers our young people for the future.

The more we can use arts forms like drama, art, music and dance, which are all literacies in different ways, because they’re all about making meaning in different ways, the more we will be able to imagine different possibilities and different ways of making the world a better and more socially just place.

Stories can sweep us away, make our hearts pound, prompt us to laugh and bring us to tears. The by-product of reading for pleasure is improvement in academic achievement. We may not have Book Week this August but we can all do our bit to find the ‘right book’ for the young people in our lives.

The ‘New Normal’ is a phrase that’s being thrown around a lot lately, but what does it look like at St Peters Lutheran College? The obvious changes are in the day-to-day College activities (socially distanced assemblies and split lunch hours to reduce the students at serveries and in common areas), but they also extend to livestreamed events, spectator limits at co and extra-curricular activities and the extension of annual College Sports Carnivals.

St Peters has a proud 75-year history of creating and nurturing strong community connections. With the outbreak of COVID-19, many of our College departments have been faced with how to continue to cultivate these connections despite physical distancing restrictions. A range of creative solutions have arisen. Read on to find out all about them.

The power of music is most significant in the field of education. It impacts positively upon the social and cognitive development of children, and these effects are long-lasting.

Huge changes continue to take place on campus at St Peters Indooroopilly and, if you haven’t had a chance to read the latest edition of the College’s biannual magazine, Plus Ultra, you may not know what they’re all about. In this post, we’ll fill you in!

The International Baccalaureate (IB) has long elevated St Peters Indooroopilly amongst the pool of Queensland’s leading private schools in Brisbane. The IB’s incorporation of a ‘Growth Mindset’ has enabled St Peters staff to encourage risk-taking which, in turn, has led to prolonged student success. Read on to find out why.

It’s no secret that St Peters boasts one of Australia’s leading school Music programs, but, if you weren’t aware, there’s definitely no denying that now! Where many school programs and activities might have pulled the pin, the St Peters Music department chose, instead, to thrive. Read on to find out how our music masters adapted to the COVID-19 world.

Cooking, exercise classes, trivia, pet appreciation, drama club and more—whoever said At Home Learning meant being alone didn’t know our St Peters community! Over the last month, staff and students from all year-levels have banded together after school hours to participate in a range of Zoom Extra-Curricular Activities. While many of these activities have wrapped up (with students now back on campus), the glowing reports are still rolling in. We caught up with Mrs Maynard to find out more about the innovative initiative that ensured St Peters maintained connections at home.