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75 Years of Community
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.
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Springfield
Music has the power to enhance a sense of wellbeing
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.
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Community Indooroopilly
Incoming Innovation
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!
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Indooroopilly Learn Parents
The Growth Mindset
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.
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Community Indooroopilly
Music Masters
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.
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Community Wellbeing Indooroopilly
Connections At Home
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.
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Community Wellbeing Indooroopilly Springfield
Mental Health at Home
Mental health awareness is important at the best of times. In the midst of COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, it’s even more crucial that we take measures to ensure good mental health, especially given our teachers and students have started At Home Learning this week. This article presents a few top tips for maintaining good mental health while online learning. Read on to find out more.
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Community Indooroopilly Learn
Teacher 'Guess Who'
Elite-level athletes are common at St Peters, but more so in the student body, or so we thought! Before the Term 1 Break, we met up with one of our new members of staff to find out a little more about them and their elite sporting career. Can you pick who it is?
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Community Wellbeing Indooroopilly
St Peters and COVID-19
COVID-19 has caused a lot of uncertainty everywhere but, at St Peters, it's encouraged our College community to band together. Read how St Peters is keeping Care, Dignity & Respect at the forefront during the Coronavirus.
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Indooroopilly Springfield
Saints smash swimming pool records
March has been a big month for St Peters students in the swimming pool—from the AIC Championships on 2 March; QGSSSA Championships on 4 March; and, this week, the Inter-Lutheran Swimming Carnival for our Years 4-6 students. Click to read how they all went!
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Indooroopilly
Reigniting the College Spirit Legacy
In February, our College and Vice Captains joined with other Brisbane school leaders (including our Springfield College and Vice Captains) to share their vision for 2020. Here's what they had to say.
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Indooroopilly
French Cultural Exchange
On Friday 7 February a group of 35 French Exchange Students arrived from our sister school, Jean XXIII Metz. The students have been on a whirlwind adventure around the College and Brisbane so far and, this week, they even spent two days at Ironbark!
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Indooroopilly
Academic Results 2019
Last Friday 7 February, we honoured our OP 1, 2 and IB 39 recipients at the annual Scholars Assembly. These students were part of the 2019 graduating Year 12 cohort—a cohort who should all be extremely proud of their results.
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Community
Ironbark in the Press
At St Peters, we’re immensely proud of Ironbark. For years, our Outdoor Education program, based at Crows Nest in the Darling Downs, has been challenging and shaping our students—encouraging them to grow in their self-confidence and work closely with their peers away from the distractions of modern technology. Ironbark was profiled in the January 2020 edition of Country Style magazine, bringing to light the pioneering aspects of the program. Click through to read the full article.
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Students share invaluable experiences from Wesley Healthcare Day
Five Year 11 St Peters students participated in the highly competitive annual Wesley Healthcare day, accompanied by Careers Counsellor, Jacqui Estevao. Our students participated in rounds of practical activities with healthcare professionals at Wesley Hospital during the Wesley Healthcare Day. During the day students were shown specialist equipment and learned some techniques for everyday patient checkups. Students have provided their insights from an invaluable day of learning about the healthcare industry and where this career could potentially take them.
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Learn
Lighting the way to a solar STEAM project
Year 5 students, Josh and Steven, took up the challenge from their teacher Ms Hannan to unbox and teach themselves the KANO Pixel Kit—to code a digital animation for their recent Solar System project.
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Wellbeing Learn
St Peters Year 8 and 9 students—leading the way
Approximately fifty Year 8 students volunteered to attend the ‘Leadershift Day’ last term, along with the Year 9 Student Leadership team who attended as peer mentors.
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The community appeal of visual and performing arts at St Peters
The incredibly popular Visual Arts and Performing Arts review (VAPAr) is a culmination of student fashion, design, art, film, media, music, performances and drama. VAPAr is a huge event and a credit to staff, supporters and students (Year 7 to 12) who creatively collaborate and connect with the St Peters community through this annual event.
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Community Learn Parents
New Ironbark tradition seen as badge of honour
Last week a new tradition at St Peters was welcomed — the presentation of Ironbark Badges to formally recognise the completion of an extraordinary outdoor education program seen as a significant Rite of Passage for Year 9 students. Students from 9A, B, C & D were the first groups presented with their Ironbark badges by representatives from the 2018 9A–D groups.
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Every culture, everyone, everywhere — dedication of Multicultural Committee
The Multicultural Committee have been part of the St Peters Community for well over ten years celebrating cultural diversity. Part of that cultural celebration is the St Peters Multicultural Week 2019 (29 July to 2 August – Term 3 week 3). The Multicultural Week was a huge success with the Whole of College International Parade of Nations, the Multicultural Gala and International Food Festival/fair. The week-long festival has grown considerably in the last eight years and it is a testament to the dedication of students, teachers and volunteers behind the scenes contributing to its success.
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66 Harts Road
Indooroopilly
QLD 4068
+61 7 3377 6222
ABN 64 176 884 840

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42 Wellness Way
Springfield Central
QLD 4300
+61 7 3470 3888
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Back Creek Road
Crows Nest QLD 4355
+61 7 4698 1171

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