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School Spirit in their Sights
Earlier this year the St Peters Indooroopilly College Captains were invited by Quest News to share their leadership vision for 2022 as part of a feature on southeast Queensland's school leaders. Read on to find out what they said...
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Always Striving To Be The Best
Established in 2008, St Peters Lutheran College Springfield provides quality Christian Co-Education within Greater Springfield. The college is committed to students reaching their full potential and like our Plus Ultra motto - ever higher, more beyond; St Peters Springfield strives to provide the best education within the Greater Springfield area.
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Olympics, Here We Come!
It’s a year overdue, but, finally, the ‘Tokyo 2020’ Summer Olympic Games are almost here. With the Opening Ceremony taking place this Friday 23 July, it’s a very exciting time. At St Peters, we’re getting set to witness multiple members of our current and Old Scholar communities take the world by storm, including our Swimming Head Coach, Dean Boxall, and seven St Peters Western (SPW) swimmers.
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Old Scholar’s Olympic Dreams Realised
Eve Thomas (2018) was the first of Dean Boxall’s St Peters Western (SPW) swimmers to qualify for an Olympic team. Just three years out of high school, she qualified for the New Zealand team in Women’s 1500m Freestyle! As her fellow Old Scholars and current St Peters students continue trialing for the Australian Olympic swim team this week, we caught up with Eve to find out more about this huge achievement.
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Legally Beyond
Kerrie Anglin is a woman of many talents. Currently serving as Senior School Key Pastoral Care Teacher at St Peters Springfield, Kerrie is also a teacher and coordinator of Legal Studies, serves as WHS and Compliance Officer and much more. Now she has added one more title to this impressive list being that of a published author.
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A Vision for St Peters
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!
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Students Find their Futures
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.
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3 Reasons to Love St Peters Boarding
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.
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Upper Primary Peace Pole
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.
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Many Nations, One Family
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Celebrating our rich diversity during Multicultural Week
We are all different; individual gifts and talents, diverse backgrounds. We represent different countries, languages, faiths and spiritualties, traditions and customs. Community is a gift. Without the uniqueness in individuals, the community would miss out on your special gifts and talents and on your unique personality.