With the second Kindy room completed and some serious unboxing occurring as furniture and resources are assembled and set up ready for an expected start next month, there are a number of families expressing interest to take up these new Kindy places.
For those wanting their children to start their schooling in Prep at St Peters in 2022, attending St Peters Kindy makes the transition into school so much smoother. As the great majority of students continue from St Peters Kindy to Prep at St Peters, there are many friendships already established. Students are also already familiar with the school site and are regularly visited in Kindy by Ps Matt and the Head of the Primary School, Mrs West-Mcinnes. Kindy students have traditionally been included in events such as our Lower Primary athletics carnival and borrow books from our library to not only support their learning but intentionally aid in their transition to schooling at St Peters – albeit recently tempered by COVID safe considerations.
If you have an interest in snapping up one of these new places, contact St Peters Kindergarten as soon as possible to express your interest: Email:stpeters.kgtsfield@qlecs.org.au | Phone: 3470 3830
Enrolment in Prep at St Peters Springfield is not automatic from enrolment in St Peters Kindy though the vast majority of students continue on. If you are interested in enrolling your child for Prep for 2022 (or beyond) at St Peters, applications can be made online through the St Peters website or you’re welcome to contact the College on 3470 3888 to find out more. Again, I would encourage you to do this as soon as possible.
Last year we honoured our first students who completed 13 years, from Prep to Year 12 at St Peters Lutheran College Springfield. In the years ahead those who complete 14 years at St Peters, from Kindy to Year 12, will be acknowledged with special honour and, most importantly, will be graduates who have been known well and cared for throughout the fullness of their schooling journey, as they have grown in character and capacity from children to responsible and confident young adults, and as they have formed, and been empowered to pursue, their goals and dreams. No matter where life and the world take them, they will remain a valued part of the St Peters community, Saints for Life, and part of a globally connected network of scholars. Craig Schmidt Principal
What's On
Date Claimers Monday 22 Feb - 26 Feb 2021
Monday 22 February Year 12 Biology excursion
Tuesday 23 February Year 9 student depart for Ironbark
Wednesday 24 February Met West Chandler Year 3 – Year 6 Swimming
Thursday 25 February Prep – Year 6 RACQ Streets Ahead
Friday 26 February Prep – Year 6 RACQ Streets Ahead AIC Swimming, Chandler
Ministry
Ash Wednesday
Christ humbled himself, by becoming obedient unto death – even death on a cross. Philippians 2:8
I made a startling discovery recently. I was describing a certain superhero to some primary school aged children and they had no idea whom I was talking about. Sometimes he wears glasses, sometimes not. No idea. Sometimes he is dressed as a mild-mannered reporter, sometimes he wears a cape. Nope. I could have launched into the acclamation: “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s …” And they would not have guessed. Kid’s today! I guess they have their own heroes. I suddenly felt old.
At risk of alienating our children, there is an interesting story from the first Superman movie, from 1978 starring Christopher Reeve. [Spoiler alert!] Lois Lane is crushed by rocks when a dam wall explodes and she dies. Superman, having fallen for Lois, is devastated and outraged. He channels his fury into flying around the earth at such great speed that he begins to make the earth’s rotation slow and then spin in reverse. I think it is a product of him travelling faster than the speed of light. Whatever the case he is able to turn back time and the dam wall is reinstated and Lois Lane is brought to life at a time before her death, giving Superman opportunity to change the course of events to save her.
If only life were like that. If we could turn back time to erase things we wish didn’t happen. Words we’ve said. Things we’ve done. Trust we’ve broken. People we’ve hurt. Ash Wednesday reminds us that there are things we can’t change in this broken world. Things go wrong. Dreams come to an end. Accidents happen. Relationships break down. Sickness plagues us. Sin is real and death is inescapable. Ash is a symbol of death.
Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent in which we remember Jesus’ journey to the cross and grave of Good Friday. He gave up his life, crucified unjustly for crimes he did not do, and dying for sins he did not commit. But the good news is that Jesus was raised to new life and we celebrate his resurrection each Easter.
Jesus does not turn back time, as if that were possible, but he transforms our world by his dying and rising. He remakes the world. He heals and renews our broken hearts. He revives our spirit. He ushers in a new age, with new hope for a new era.
The powers Jesus uses to accomplish this were not magical superpowers, rather were simply his humility and obedience to his Heavenly Father. So we learn humble obedience to God’s will as the way that overcomes death and leads to life.
This Lent may you remember Jesus’ journey to the cross and the empty grave and know his life-giving power!
Pastor Matt Wilksch Springfield Chaplain
Arise Lutheran Church
Arise is a Christian Community where people gather each Sunday morning at 9am in the St Peter’s Hub, to meet Jesus the Light of the World. "Arise, shine, your light has come!" Isaiah 60:1
All are welcome.
The video on Facebook is of the complete worship service.
Over the course of the past two years the College has been steadily developing its new Strategic Intent. With input from various stakeholders, informed by data and evidence and research trends, and underpinned by our Christian Ethos the result is Plus Ultra 2025.
Plus Ultra 2025, our Strategic Intent builds on the successes of the past 75 years, and lays out our collective vision, ambition and direction for St Peters in the years ahead.
Consultation during the planning process resulted in the distillation of twelve Strategic Pillars and corresponding Strategic Intents that will help shape St Peters over the course of this decade and beyond. It will guide our decisions, actions and interactions into the future, and will create a framework for resource allocation across the College.
Our Strategic Intent provides a road map to help St Peters reach its vision and mission. The next steps will be translating the strategic initiatives into actions and creating operational plans to guide and align our efforts. Some of these actions will be ongoing, many will be new, arising in response to the direction and focus on shaping St Peters over the next decade.
Some of the latter can or must be initiated in the first year or two of the Intent; others will follow. Some will be whole of College initiatives; others will be specific to one or more parts of the College. Actions will be revisited and renewed annually.
In charting our course for this decade Plus Ultra 2025 is future focused and embraces leading practice, next practice and innovation; yet at the same time remains true to the vision of our founding Headmaster Mr W C Schneider, whose great hope for St Peters was that it would be ‘a school where your sons and daughters will get the best possible training, a school which should do much good for the church and the country’.
St Peters has benefited greatly from the contribution and commitment of staff, students, parents and Old Scholars and will further benefit from our continued work together as we move into implementation of Plus Ultra 2025 in the coming years.
On behalf of St Peters I invite you to be part of our exciting future.
To read our new Strategic Intent in full please visit the College’s website or click on :
Year 12 Visual Art students sought inspiration for their art-making by exploring the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art last week.
Primary Years
2021 Term 1 Lunchtime Clubs
Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
10:20 - 10:40am | Year 4-6 Play
Yr 4-6 'Children of Courage' - Fiona Rice
Yr 4 - 6 Pen Pals (Ch10)
Yr 4-6 Cricket Skills Club (Oval)
Yr 4-6 Origami Craft (CH08-09) Yr 4-6 Drawing and Colouring (Ch10)
10:40 - 11:00am | Year P-3 Play
Yr 1-3 Music and Dance Club (Ch08-09)
Yr 2-3 Puppet Club (Ch15)
Yr 1-3 Construction Club (CH14) Lego and block construction
Year 1-3 Mindfulness colouring in (CH16)
Afternoon Tea Break 12:35pm
Yr 3-6 Chess (CH18) | Student Council (P-6)
Yr 4-6 Math Competitions (CH13)
Yr 4-6 Book Club (CH12)
Yr 4-6 Drama Games (CH08-09)
Year 5 Chess Competition Prize Winner
On Saturday 13 February, Yuvi K from 5T placed third at the Cookies QLD Rapids Chess Competition at the Gold Coast. There were 28 participants which consisted of rated and unrated chess players of all ages. It was a great achievement for Yuvi who also placed second last year at a local schools competition.
The Arts
Music News, Term 1 Week 4
Arts and Minds – Part Two: Mary Jo Capps AM
Mary Jo Capps AM, former CEO of Musica Viva and leadership consultant, is passionate about the vital role arts education plays in the development of students and society.
Based on her research, Mary Jo has found two main areas of benefits gained from an arts-rich education:
1. Better cognition in all areas
2. Better mental health.
Better Cognition
Active engagement in the arts improves academic and often social outcomes for students in both primary and secondary education. The Dana Arts and Cognition Consortium found that an interest in the performing arts leads to higher states of motivation that produce the sustained attention necessary to improve performance, and the training of attention leads to improvement in other areas of cognition.
This study also demonstrated specific links between high levels of music training and the ability to manipulate information in both working and long-term memory; substantial improvement in numeracy and geometric skills; and more highly developed skills in reading and sequence learning.
The US study, “Champion of Change” (2000), followed 20 000 young people for 10 years to see if engagement in the arts made any difference. The study showed that, regardless of background, young people who engaged in the arts had better academic results, were less involved in substance abuse and had higher levels of civic engagement. Music students also exhibited advanced maths proficiency and higher overall academic proficiency over non-music students.
Better Mental Health
The Australia Council (2020) research highlights that Australians have noted that the largest increases have been the proportion of people agreeing on the impact of arts and creativity on:
Child development
Our sense of wellbeing and happiness
On helping us deal with stress, anxiety or depression, and
On stimulating our minds.
The arts and creativity are important in shaping expressing Australian identity, and in building creative skills that will be necessary for the workforce.
Indeed, that arts help students achieve all manner of good outcomes beyond the arts. But the arts are important because they are good in themselves, because they are inspiring, because they make us feel and think differently about ourselves and about the world around us.
Sport
St Peters Springfield
Secondary Inter-House Swimming Carnival
The Junior High and Senior School swimming carnivals despite being split were outstanding days with students out supporting their houses, swimming and earning points for their houses. With less than 100 points separating the houses, it was a closely fought contest. Congratulations to Leichhardt on 1105 points who came out on top as the Champion House for 2021 followed by Mitchell on 1047 points and Cunningham on 989 points. Leichhardt also took out the House Spirit award for 2021 making it a clean sweep for Swimming.
We also acknowledge our individual Age Champions. Many age groups were closely fought with only a few points separating some students. Age Champions are as follows:
Age
Girls
Boys
12 Years
Jillian F
Xavier F
13 Years
Ruby-Jane K
Thomas G
14 Years
Bella P
Ethan R
15 Years
Tiare R
John J
16 Years
Claveria J-T
Aiden M
17 Years
Jessica G
Themys A-M
Congratulations to all students who did an outstanding job. We now look forward to the Inter-House Cross Country Carnival in the last week of Term 1.
Upper Primary Inter-House Swimming Carnival
Congratulations to all Year 4 – 6 Upper Primary students for your participation and efforts throughout the Upper Primary Inter-House Swimming Carnival. It was a fantastic day of competition, fun and colour. It was great to see so many students out and about in the house coloured t-shirts. Overall, Cunningham were the clear winners on the day followed by Leichhardt and Mitchell.
We also acknowledge individual students who achieved success on the day. The following students were awarded Age Champions:
Age
Girl
Boy
9 Years
Sienna M
Ethan S
10 Years
Isobel B
Charlie M
11 Years
Sophie S
Gus F
12 Years
Ami G
Fred M
Thank you also to the year 10 students who attended and provided leadership and support to our students in and out of the water.
First VI Volleyball
Congratulations to Zane P in Year 12 who has been selected St Peters VI Volleyball team in the 2021 AIC Volleyball season. Zane has made an outstanding contribution to Volleyball over a number of years and has been rewarded for his dedication with this selection. Zane set himself a goal a number of years ago to make the 1st’s Volleyball and has achieved this in his final season. Well done Zane!
Central District Swimming
Congratulations to all 28 swimmers who trialled at the Central District Swimming trials last week. In a brilliant performance, all 28 swimmers were successful in making the district team to attend the Met West trials next week. This is an outstanding effort by our swimmers and is reward for the many hours they spend training. To cap off the individual success, St Peters Lutheran College Springfield also took out the 10 – 12 Years Champion School Trophy, 13 – 19 Year Champion School Trophy as well as the Overall Percentage Trophy in a clean sweep of trophies available. Students who swam on the day include:
Names
Randiv K
Tamika R
Ethan R
Kaia S
Sophie S
Alex S
Rav S
Leilani R
Kate E
Thomas G
Tiare R
Lillian K
Fred M
Vasili M
Justin P
Jessica G
Jillian F
Stella S
Abdiel S
Themys A-M
Israiel T
Bella P
John J
Well done to all students. We wish you well next week as you trial at Met West.
Representative Sport
Over the last few weeks we have had a number of students trial at both Central District Sport Trials as well as Met West Sport trials. Hayley J, Tahlia K, Kaito N and Michael K all trialled as part of the Central District Tennis team. Kaito and Hayley both made it through to the final stages. Tahlia and Michael both made it through to finals and were selected in the Met West team to trial at the State Titles later this term.
This week, Toby S, Taylah H, Jazelle D and Ella M trialled the Central District 13 – 15 years Netball trials. Congratulations to Jazelle, Ella and Taylah for making the team to trial at Met West.
We also congratulate Aspen S in Year 12 who successfully trialled at Met West Golf last week. Aspen shot a good round and will now compete at the State Titles later in Term 1. Well done Aspen!
Lucy O and Bek Q (Football) and Shanteal H and Laylani V (Touch) have also been selected to represent Central District in their respective sports at the upcoming Met West trials. These girls have represented St Peters over a long period time in their chosen sports. Good luck girls!
Students are reminded to nominate through Mr Lohe if they wish to trial for a respective sport.
QGSSSA Girls Sport
Sporting Behaviour
As we enter a busy time in Girls Sport at St Peters with the QGSSSA Swimming Championships and the start of the Autumn fixtures just around the corner, it is a timely reminder to reflect as a community on our conduct.
Sporting behaviour is the term used to reflect sportsmanship, as it pertains to ethical behaviour, fair play, and respect for the sport, the participants, and the spectators.
As participants, we need to appreciate the good sportsmanship and skills of opponents, always display good temper and grace and give congratulations, thanks and support as appropriate.
As Parents and spectators, we are reminded that children learn best by example. Never use profane language or harass coaches or officials and teach your children that honest effort is as important as victory.
Please recognise the value and importance of coordinators and coaches and support their decisions.
Wet Weather
With wet weather predicted for this week, please keep an eye on the St Peters App for cancellations. We will endeavour to do this by 1.30pm for afternoon training sessions and 5.30am for morning training sessions. Students will also receive an email.
Our Senior Softball team were greeted on Tuesday morning by this spectacular rainbow – photo curtesy of Head Coach Vaughan, what a great way to start the morning!!!
Congratulations
In fantastic news this week two of our Year 12 girls have excelled in their chosen sport. Brianna F did amazingly well last weekend at the QLD Triathlon State Championships where she won the Senior competition. Brianna was the fastest athlete over the course and came off the bike with a 3-minute lead, Brianna will go on to represent Queensland at the National Triathlon Championships later in the year. Congratulations Brianna pictured below with Tom F who also did amazingly well finishing second place in the senior boy’s division.
Continuing from her fantastic selection in the Indoor Hockey Queensland team, Jane R has been selected in the U18 Outdoor Hockey Queensland team to play at the National Hockey Championships in Tasmania in April. Congratulations to Jane on this amazing achievement, Jane also this week accepted an offer to be an ambassador for a Hockey brand.
TWO WEEKS UNTIL THE QGSSSA SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS!
The second official QGSSSA Swim Meet is on this Friday 19 February, this meet is hosted by St Margaret’s & Clayfield College at the Valley Pool (please see the St Peters App for the Program of Events).
Transport will be provided leaving the St Peters Bus Stop at 3.30pm and the estimated finish time of the meet is 6.30pm, the bus will return to the St Peters Bus Stop arriving @ approx. 7.00pm.
REMINDER - it is a requirement to wear St Peters togs when representing the College at a Swim Meet.
Another compulsory part of the St Peters Swimming uniform is the grey St Peters Swimming Shirt. This shirt must be worn to and from Swim Meets and the QGSSSA Championships (with HPE shorts) and also when not swimming at the meets (e.g. waiting in the stands). All students who attended the Swim Camp will already have this shirt. Grey shirts can be purchase from Sports House for $20 or via the St Peters Portal and once you have a receipt, you can collect the shirt from Sport House.
Senior Softball has hit the ground running, with games commencing in Week 2 of this term. So far it has been a great start with each team securing good wins in each of the rounds. Our Opens girls have won three from four of their matches and are looking to win a few more in the next coming weeks. The girls have shown great commitment to training and games and we are excited for what the rest of the season has for our girls.
The third week of games is this Saturday 20 February and the fourth and final round of the season is scheduled for 27 February, (6 & 13 March if wet weather occurs).
Girls Water Polo is speeding towards the end of the season. We have hit the stage of the season where we are seeing injuries and tiredness affect attendance at training, we ask the girl to please communicate if they are unable to attend training sessions. As always, our girls represent St Peters as good ambassadors for the sport and show grit and gratitude in their games each week. Keep up the great work girls and a special shout out to our coaches who are invested in their teams to learn and grow each week when they hit the pool deck.
Cross Country pre-season continues this week and we have had a steady flow of runners attending. There are many training sessions to choose from – please check the St Peters App for further details.
Do your best to attend as many of these sessions as you can, with Wednesday sessions being a priority.
Run Club is on again this week! Join our Running Community on Friday mornings - meet at 6.30am at the St Peters Bus Stop.
‘Run Club’ a fun way to improve fitness for all sports, meet new people and start training for our QGSSSA Cross Country season.
AIC Boys Sport
Luke Donatini Boys Sport Coordinator 3377 6234 | l.donatini@stpeters.qld.edu.au
Today I read our Head of College, Mr Tim Kotzur’s, weekly Staff Newsletter. Within it, Mr Kotzur covered a subject and topic which I feel is paramount when dealing with sport and the development of young sportsmen and women. The focus was on Resilience.
Enabling and teaching our students, though sport, the benefits of becoming resilient, I feel, will overlap in so many ways when they are faced with challenges in everyday life. Mr Kotzur highlighted the Six Pillars of Resilience (by Michael Herbert), which are 1. Confidence, 2. Adaptability, 3. Positivity, 4. Perspective, 5. Mastery, and 6. Stamina.
When you look at these six pillars of resilience, you can truly understand the value that sport can play in teaching and reinforcing to our teenagers and aspiring sportsmen and women not to give up, not to give in, dare to dream and most importantly challenge themselves to become better at every task they undertake both on and off the sporting field. To look at their successes as positives and the result of their working process. It should also highlight to them to view their losses, not as negatives or failure, but as areas of growth development, improvement and as minor setbacks which can be overcome by sticking with a plan and a workable process.
Last weekend’s Round 3 fixtures exemplified the above-mentioned topic of resilience, with both our First XI Cricketers and First VI Volleyballers overcoming the previous two weeks of disappointment and losses to show great grit, determination and skill execution to achieve success over St Edmunds College. To witness the excitement and adulation surrounding these two wins did indeed highlight how hard our boys have worked to overcome adversity and achieve success. This confidence and tenacity will stand them in a good position as they prepare for this weekend’s Round 4 games against St Laurence’s College.
This Week in Sport – AIC Round 4
This week in AIC Sport, St Peters compete against St Laurence’s College in Volleyball, Cricket and Open AFL.
St Peters Years 7 to 9 teams playing away at St Laurence’s venues whilst our Years 10 to 12 teams are once again at home at St Peters venues. Our Open AFL team will play against St Laurence’s College on Friday afternoon (4.45pm Kick Off) at Coorparoo AFL Grounds.
Please ensure you check the St Peters App. for both venue details and time of games for Round 3 of St Peters AIC Boys Sport.
This week’s AIC Invitational Swimming Meet will be held at St Peters 50m pool. St Peters will host Villanova College, St Laurence’s College and St Edmund’s College this Friday 19 February. The AIC Championships will be held at Chandler Aquatic Centre, Chandler on Friday 26 February.
2021 AIC Swimming Championships – No Student Spectators
This week the AIC Management Committee released a statement surrounding spectators at the up and coming AIC Championships on Friday 26 February. Parents and Caregivers are welcome to apply attend as spectators; however, it will be a ticketed event and only entry given to those who have applied for a ticket (allocated seating). There will no student spectators at this year’s AIC Swimming championships. For further information on how to apply for spectator tickets, please check the St Peters App where you can also read the full AIC Statement regarding this event.
Wet Weather and Cancellations
With regards to wet weather and any unforeseen or potential cancellations of AIC Sports, please ensure that you keep an eye out for notifications and alerts via the St Peters App. We will endeavour to keep everyone updated on both training cancellations and game day changes as the week progresses.
AIC Cross Country Training and Runners Club
Training for Cross Country has commenced. We encourage all students who are interested in running Cross Country for St Peters or are just keen to get their fitness up for other sports to get involved and participate. We have experienced coaches who are enthusiastic and happy to assist all runners of every ability level. Training times for Cross Country can be found on the St Peters App. Boys can also find more details about Cross Country from the weekly sport email sent to them.
Dress Standards at St Peters AIC Sporting Training and Games
A reminder that all our boys do need to be dressed correctly at both AIC training and games.
AIC Volleyball
Correct Training and Playing Uniform Requirements – At Training – All St Peters AIC Volleyballers are to be where their St Peters Sports Uniform to Volleyball training. At Games – All St Peters AIC Volleyballers must be wearing their numbered volleyball shirt and maroon PE/Sports Shorts. NO sports/PE shirts are to be worn at AIC games. WHITE SOCKS ONLY are to be worn at AIC Volleyball Games.
AIC Cricket
Correct Training and Playing Uniform Requirements – At Training – all AIC cricketers must wear their ‘Program Shirt’ to their first training session of the week. The second training session you are to wear your ‘Sports Uniform’. At Games – All St Peters Cricketers are to arrive to their game wearing their ‘Program Shirt’ and then get changed into your playing whites just before the start of play.
St Peters Student Spectators on Gamedays
Should any St Peters student be attending a St Peters sporting event/game outside of normal college hours, it is expected that they be dressed in St Peters apparel whilst attending these events.
If the sport specific information you are looking for cannot be found on the St Peters App, please contact the below sport specific coordinators directly:
Tuesday 9th March: Lutheran Primary Swimming @ St Peters Indooroopilly
Tuesday 30th April: Year 4 – 12 Inter-house Cross Country @ Robelle Domain
Communication of Sport Information
Information regarding the St Peters Lutheran College Springfield Sport program will be communicated through a range of modes including email, St Peters App and Cornerstone. Students and parents will primarily receive information from the Head of Sport at Springfield but at times may also receive information from the Girls and Boys Sport Coordinators or individual Sport Coordinators. Parents and students are encouraged to download and use the St Peters App for information regarding the Sport program.
St Peters APP
Please download the St Peters ‘app’ today!!
All information regarding the St Peters Lutheran College Sport program including sport training times and venues, draws, coordinator details and wet weather arrangements can be found on the St Peters App.
*Please ensure that you update your preferences in the Settings> Subscriptions section of the app so that you only receive information from your appointed Campus or area of interest that are relevant to your family e.g. Springfield or Sports.
The app can be downloaded free through iTunes or Google Play, please search for St Peters:
