It’s nearing that time of year, when the days shorten, the weather gets cooler and enthusiasm starts to dwindle. With student motivation in mind, St Peters School Counsellor, Jess Young, has devised these top 5 tips for managing the midyear blues. Read on to find out how you can help your children this winter.

The 124th Queensland Athletics Championships took place from 11-14 March—the state’s premier Track & Field event for the year. Featured in the Championships were more than a handful of St Peters Track & Field stars, proving we’ve definitely got a few to watch as the years progress!

St Peters Indooroopilly’s 2021 College Captains recently participated in a Courier Mail feature on Queensland’s school leaders. The Captains were asked about their vision for the year—what they planned to do with their leadership over the course of 2021. Read on to find out what they said!

To develop further knowledge of road safety rules RACQ's Education Officers visited our Primary Years students with a series of engaging activities around pedestrian awareness, passenger, bike and skateboard safety.

It’s no secret that the onset of COVID-19 disrupted what everyone once knew as ‘normal’, especially in the school setting. 2020 saw an absence of College events and, for a time, students on campus, but, surprisingly, it wasn’t all bad. Creative thinking thrived and, of that, many new programs and initiatives were born. One such program was the St Peters ‘Find Your Future’ program.

To support our Year 6 students in understanding what it means to be a supportive leader in Primary School, we organised them to work with a team from ‘Character Builders​’. The program was run over two days — one at school and one on the Kokoda track at Mt Coot-tha.

Boarding school is more than just a place of education—it is a home-away-from-home and a place where students come to thrive. Making decisions about boarding schools can be tough, but it doesn’t have to be…just ask proud St Peters Lutheran College boarder, Ben Roberton.

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.