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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

​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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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!