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Community connection is an important strategic intention at St Peters. In our 2016–20 Strategic Vision document it states: ‘We aspire to enrich our partnership with parents and the wider community’. Over the past eleven years, strong relationships have been formed within our local community…
Ministry
I wrote in this column before the holidays about the upcoming staff tour in Luther’s Footsteps. Well, we are back! It was an amazing two weeks, exploring our roots and history and seeing how the insights of Martin Luther (1483–1546) and his fellow reformers impacted the world…
Head of College
On Friday 26 October schools around Australia will celebrate World Teachers Day. World Teachers Day is a time to acknowledge those who teach and work in our College and thank them for what they do...
Important Notices
In the last issue of Plus Ultra, we announced the arrival of the St Peters blog. The blog is a wonderful resource, located on our website; designed to help you and your child/ren journey through the schooling years, with new content added regularly by each of the College departments…
Next year’s term dates are now available to view or download…
Access important notices, latest newsletters, school calendars, photo galleries, sports draws, and more…
Around the School
Schools are the perfect place to begin to flourish. We have been discussing mindset amongst the staff and it has been interesting to note that many people find themselves thinking that they have a growth mindset, but find they are in some ways holding on to a perceived view of: ‘I’m not good at —’…
As I write this article for Cornerstone, I sit in a French classroom, 16,512 km from my home in Brisbane, travelling as part of St Peters Springfield’s annual French exchange program. Over the past three weeks, I have visited Disneyland, the Louvre, Sacré-Cœur, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and much, much more…
More than 20,000 students from around the world participated in the National Computer Science School Challenge 2018. They competed for five weeks, learning to code by solving interesting and engaging problems. The results of the competition have now been released…
Music
Congratulations to Poco Voce, and the combined Mezzo Voce/Fella Voce choirs who performed at this event. Poco Voce performed the upbeat action song, ‘Old Shoe Blues’ acapella. With a theme of resilience in the face of adversity, ‘Titanium’ was the song...