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St Peters Lutheran College
File:Stpeterslutheran.jpg
Location
Map
Indooroopilly
,
Queensland

Australia
Coordinates27°30′18″S 152°59′4″E / 27.50500°S 152.98444°E / -27.50500; 152.98444
Information
TypeIndependent, day and boarding
MottoLatin: Plus Ultra
(Ever Higher)
DenominationLutheran
Established1945
PrincipalTim Kotzur[2]
Staff183 teaching, 182 non-teaching (in 2017)[3]
GradesP–12
GenderCo-educational
Enrolment1986 (in 2017)[3]
HousesGould, Mitchell, Leichhardt, Cawley, Bradman, Cunningham, Chisolm, Laver, Sutherland          
Colour(s)Maroon and white   
SloganExcellence in Christian Co-education[1]
Websitewww.stpeters.qld.edu.au

St Peters Lutheran College is an independent, co-educational, Lutheran, day and boarding school, situated on a 21 hectares (52 acres) campus in Indooroopilly, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Established in 1945, St Peters caters for students from Prep to Year 12,[4] including boarders from Years 6 to 12. In January 2008, St Peters Lutheran College Springfield opened with almost 100 students from Prep to Year 8 in multi-age classes. St Peters Springfield has since grown to a Kindergarten to Year 12 school and moved to a new state of the art location in Health City.

In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 1986 students with a teaching staff of 183 teachers with 182 non-teaching staff.[3]

The school's chapel is heritage-listed, having been added to the Queensland Heritage Register in 2012.[5]

Symbolism

Luther's seal

There are certain symbolic icons present in the college emblem, including Martin Luther's iconic white rose from his seal, and an inverted cross for St Peter, leader of the Apostles in the early Christian Church, who was crucified upside-down.

The School's motto, Plus Ultra, which is Latin for "Ever Higher", is said to emphasise the College's desire for the students to reach their goals in their learning.

Campus

Science lab

From the 1897 Villa "Ross Roy", bought and used as the first building of St Peters in 1945, the College campus has seen significant growth and change over the years.

Theile house, a four-storey building comprising computer labs, classrooms, Year 11/12 lockers, and the Theile study centre, was recently renovated and extended. The facilities in the new building include a study centre for students in years 11 and 12, with three private study/meeting rooms and numerous computers and laptops available to students. The girls' boarding houses have also been renovated, now featuring air conditioning, and a multi-purpose court.

There are three libraries on campus. The Senior School library is a three-storey facility where students and staff can access a collection of fiction and non-fiction. There are approximately 80 computers and students have access to a number of databases to which the school subscribes.

In 2013, a Performing Arts Centre was also opened. This is a three-storey facility including an auditorium, theatrette, orchestra and band rooms, music and drama classrooms, and rooms for instrumental tuition and practice.

Ironbark

Workshop at Ironbark

Ironbark is the outdoor campus of St Peters Lutheran College. Located near the town of Crows Nest, some 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Toowoomba and 150 kilometres (93 mi) north-west of Brisbane, the property consists of 600 hectares (1,483 acres) of heavily timbered, undulating granite country. The donation of land in 1971, provided the College with an opportunity to develop and implement an outdoor education program. After several years of discussion and planning, a pilot program was run in 1974. Following the success of the pilot program, Ironbark has been part of the College curriculum since 1976. Ironbark was named for the Eucalyptus Crebra, the narrow leaf Ironbark, which grows across the property.

Students from the College spend five weeks at Ironbark in Year 9. During their stay, students experience community living, help to run the farm and maintain the property, and undertake a range of outdoor adventure activities. The students have no formal academic lessons during their stay. Facilities on site include two dormitories, staff accommodation, a well-equipped workshop, a garden, and a mixed farm. Much of the food consumed by the students is produced on the property.

Whilst attending Ironbark, students must complete a 4-day hike covering a total geographic distance of 51.4 km, partake in a 48-hour team survival program and a 24-hour solo event.

In prior years, it was year 10 students who spent 8 weeks at Ironbark, with some classes attending Mt Binga camp instead.

Heads of College

The heads of college have been:[6]

Period Details
1945–1954 Wilfred Carl Schneider
1955–1970 Hermann Wilhelm Albrecht Lohe
1971–1994 Carson Dron
1995–2002, 2011 Sally Chandler
2003–2011 Stephen Rudolph
2012–2016 Adrian Wiles
2017– Tim Kotzur

Co-curriculum

Music

Tuition is available through the school on most instruments, as well as vocal lessons and musical theory (AMEB or Trinity). Music is an elective course in Years 9 to 12, while music is compulsory for students in Year 7 or below. Touring forms a significant part of the College's music program. Student ensembles have toured throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Russia, United States, Europe, China, Japan and Tasmania.

Chorale

St Peters Chorale is a youth choir directed by Kathryn Morton and forms part of the senior ensemble triad with Symphonic Winds and Soloists. Composed of students from Years 9 to 12 and occasionally some grade 8s, it frequently performs pieces of music from various composers, especially supporting Australian artists. Chorale tours internationally, every three years in cycle with the other senior ensembles, with the next tour to be held during December 2019 - January 2020 when they tour through England and Europe.

Symphonic winds

The St Peters' Symphonic Winds forms part of the senior ensemble traid with chorale and soloists. It has a major part of the band's program since its inception, integrating brass, woodwind and percussion students from years 9 to 12. The Symphonic Winds last tour covered the Southern states of the United States of America in December 2015.

Other ensembles

In addition, St Peters offers other ensembles, including:[7]

Singing groups
  • Junior School Choir
  • Bella Voce, the Middle School Girls choir
  • Forte Voce, the Middle School Boys choir
  • Junior High Songmakers - Students in grade 7 and 8
  • Cantique - an all girls choir for girls in 8-12 and occasionally students in grade 7.
  • Saints and Singers - an all boys choir for students in grade 8-12 and occasionally boys in grade 7 are accepted.
Bands and instrumental ensembles
  • Concert Band 2
  • Concert Band 1
  • Junior Stage Band
  • Intermediate Stage Band
  • Senior Stage Band
  • Guitar Ensemble
  • The Middle School Strings
  • The Senior Strings
  • The Wind Ensemble
  • The Percussion Ensemble
  • Super Strings
  • Neon Pulse

Sport

The cocurricular sporting program provides opportunities for students to participate in a variety of sports and physical pursuits. The school's sporting facilities include an indoor sports hall and weights room, a 50-metre and a 25-metre heated pool, six tennis-specific courts, eight additional multi-purpose outdoor courts and three ovals, two of which have turf cricket wickets.

The college offers a variety of sports from primary to senior, including:[8]

Boys in Years 5 to 12 compete in the Associated Independent Colleges (AIC) competition and girls in Years 7 to 12 compete in the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association (QGSSSA). Years 4 to 6 students compete in the AIC and QGSSSA junior competitions.

Other activities

St Peters students participate in a range of other co-curricular activities, including Opti-MINDS, Debating, Mooting, Public Speaking, Theatre Sports, Drama Access, Future Problem Solving, Bee-Keeping, Combobularity Club, the Year 8 Kaleidoscope Production and various outside competitions.

St Peters students have the chance to also participate in the St Peters Robotics program which includes programs such as the FIRST Tech Challenge, FIRST Robotics Challenge, Robocup and many more. Four St Peters students, partnered with Grace Lutheran College, represented Australia at the First Global Challenge in June 2017. They came 49th overall (out of 160 countries participating) and won a silver award for International Unity.

Curriculum

The St Peters curriculum is designed to provide a continuum of experience and knowledge acquisition from Prep to Year 12. To this end, St Peters offers programs within four separate sub-schools: Lower Primary (P–4), Upper Primary (5–6), Junior High (7–9) and Senior School (10–12). Each sub-school operates semi-autonomously with its own Head of Sub-School and administration. The Senior School offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.[9]

Since 2004, the school has run an exchange program in conjunction with sister school, Immanuel college, in Adelaide, South Australia. The focus of the exchange program, or "Mind Change" as it is known, is to allow gifted students from both schools a chance to meet students their age who they can relate their interests to.

Publications

The school has a number of publications that are made available to the school community, including:[10]

  • The Rock, the Indooroopilly school's weekly newsletter
  • Cornerstone, the Springfield school's weekly newsletter
  • Pebbles, a publication for the primary years
  • Plus Ultra, a magazine printed three times a year
  • The Review, an annual publication reviewing the previous year
  • Maroon and White, a publication circulated to boarding families

Chapel

Main article: Chapel of St Peter's Lutheran College
St Peters College Chapel

The St Peters Lutheran College Chapel was built in 1968 to a design of the Austrian-born architect Karl Langer. Langer's work was in a distinctive sub-tropical modernist style and this was his last built project. The building has a large well-lit nave with a choir loft, vestry and meditation chapel and features a large bell tower. It is constructed of load-bearing face brick with a roof of flat metal sheeting.[5]

History

St Peters Lutheran College was established at Indooroopilly by the Lutheran Church in 1945 with 56 boarding students. Ross Roy was the main building and focus for early College life with Luther House built by voluntary labour soon after the College’s commencement. St Peters has had five Heads in its history and is the largest Lutheran school in Australia, today, with an enrolment maintained at approximately 2000 day and boarding students and 350 teaching and non-teaching staff. Our boarding enrolments are maintained at 150 students. St Peters Lutheran College – Ironbark Outdoor Education Centre, via Crows Nest, was established in 1974 as a trial program and in 1976 as an ongoing Outdoor Education Program. This life changing experience is a five-week program for Year 9 students and indicates St Peters positive and strong commitment to ‘growing’ our Junior High students in significant ways. The ‘Ironbark Experience’ is seen by staff, parents and students as a vital part of the St Peters journey, fostering independence, resilience, teamwork, problem solving, ethical decision making, sustainability and environmental awareness in our young people. Commencing in 2008, St Peters Lutheran College Springfield began as a Prep to Year 8 school. It now caters for Prep to Year 12 and provides the Springfield and adjacent communities with the many benefits of the St Peters journey. All St Peters schools operate under the control of the St Peters Lutheran College Council and Head of College, governed by the Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland District.

Alumni

Alumni of St. Peters Lutheran College are known as Old Scholars. All students graduate as Life Members of the St Peters Old Scholars Association (SPOSA).[11] Notable St. Peter's Old Scholars include North Queensland indigenous leader, Noel Pearson, Olympic athletes Dane Bird-Smith,[12] Maxine Seear, Georgia Bohl, Chris Noffke, Shane Gould, and Pita Taufatofua, and musicians and actors Sigrid Thornton, Hamish Prasad, Craig Horner, and Sam Atwell.

Other well-known past students include ex-Brisbane Lions (now Essendon) Australian football player Mal Michael; 1986 Commonwealth Games 1500m Freestyle Gold Medalist Jason Plummer, Federal MHRs Steven Ciobo and Michael Johnson; TV sports reporter Stephanie Brantz; romance novelist and former Brisbane Broncos cheerleader Ally Blake; and current Brisbane Lions rookie listed Australian football player Adam Spackman.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Welcome Message". About Us. St. Peters Lutheran College. 2007. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2007.
  2. ^ "Welcome from the Head of College". St Peters Lutheran College. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Indooroopilly 2017 School Report" (PDF). St Peters Lutheran College. pp. 5, 12. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Introduction & School Details" (PDF). School Report 2007. St. Peters Lutheran College. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2007.
  5. ^ a b "Chapel of St Peter's Lutheran College, Indooroopilly (entry 602816)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  6. ^ "St Peters Lutheran College". St Peters Lutheran College. p. 4 (photo captions). Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  7. ^ "Music". Archived from the original on 17 February 2011.
  8. ^ "The Curricular Sport Program". St Peters Lutheran College. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014.
  9. ^ St. Peters Lutheran College Archived 4 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, from ibo.org. Retrieved 19 April 2008.
  10. ^ "Publications". 2007. Archived from the original on 16 June 2006.
  11. ^ "About SPOSA". Old Scholars (SPOSA). St. Peters Lutheran College. Archived from the original on 22 July 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  12. ^ "Dane Bird-Smith". Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.

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