Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has always been a focus at St Peters. Care has been taken to ensure that students have every chance to develop their skills in this area. The majority of our computers are located centrally within our Resource Centre. This allows students to use the computers throughout the day to enhance their learning. The staff at … Read More
Father’s Day Celebrations!
Friday the 31st of August was a special morning for our St Peters Lutheran community. With nearly 190 Dads, Grandfathers, father-figures and children in attendance, our Father’s Day Breakfast was another wonderful, busy, buzzing morning. With an abundant breakfast spread, coffees flowing, decorations, and some bad dad jokes, the scene was set for a morning of great community, conversation, and … Read More
St Peters Success!
Health and Physical Education is a highly valued part of the curriculum at St Peters Lutheran. Each individual child is catered for in the pursuit of success for all. No matter what their ability, students are able to access learning at their own level. Whilst ensuring that students feel safe and have positive experiences within the physical domain, we also … Read More
Polly Parrot and the Pirates!
Lights! Camera! Action! Our whole school musical for 2018 was a wonderful event bringing together the whole community to present a musical with song, dance, humour and excitement! The students were the stars of the show, so this week’s Inside Story is written by one of our musical stars, Theo from Year 6. Over to you Theo! During the preparation … Read More
Book Week 2018…Find Your Treasure!
Each year, across Australia, The Children’s Book Council Australia (CBCA) brings children and books together celebrating Children’s Book Week. During this time, St Peters Lutheran celebrates Australian Children’s Literature with a week jam-packed with activities that promote reading and the theme for the year. Book Week is always such a highlight at St Peters Lutheran. This year the theme is … Read More
Mathematics…Creative. Fascinating. Satisfying. Everywhere.
‘Creative. Fascinating. Satisfying. Everywhere.’ These are words used to describe mathematics by mathematicians. ‘Stressful. Pointless. Memorisation. Practice’. Sadly, these are words many students use to describe mathematics. At St Peters we support each and every student in viewing his or herself as a powerful mathematician who enthusiastically engages in the wonder of mathematics and develops ingenuity as he or she seeks and identifies patterns, rules and concepts, communicates mathematically, … Read More
A Boost to The Arts at St Peters Lutheran
This year at St Peters Lutheran, The Arts has been given a major boost! Added to the already existing Music and Visual Arts programme, we have included Media Arts, Dance and Drama (MADD) to the specialist subjects the students attend on a weekly basis. The students are loving MADD and have been involved in drama games, writing and performing monologues, … Read More
Christian Studies at St Peters
What makes St Peters different? What is central to what we do here at St Peters and why? What makes us unique and distinct? One aspect of this difference is that St Peters is a Lutheran School, where our community reflects a Christian approach to learning, living and working together. Part of how we reflect a Christian approach to learning … Read More
Not Just Monkeying About
Fundraising for the Orangutans One quality, out of many, that I am very proud of our students at St Peters Lutheran School is their philanthropy and compassion for others and the environment. This falls under the IB Learner Profile attribute of Caring, where learners ‘show empathy, compassion and respect. We have a commitment to service, and we act to make … Read More
Receptions Lead The Way!
Can the youngest of students influence the practices of a whole school? St Peters Receptions have recently done just that! Towards the end of last term, the Reception students at SPLS had been investigating their Sharing the Planet unit; “Practices can be established in order to sustain and maintain the Earth’s resources”. They have been developing their reflective thinking … Read More