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PLUS ULTRA 2025 | OUR STRATEGIC INTENT
Plus Ultra 2025 Meeting the Needs of Our World
Plus Ultra 2025, in setting out our vision and ambition for the future of St Peters, is also a response to meeting a deep need in our world. As we embark on the third decade of the 21st Century our children and young people are growing up in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment and our world is facing deep challenges around reconciliation, pandemics, wellbeing, the distribution of resources, sustainability and the environment, ideological extremism, and the economy. Martin Luther, whose courageous actions 500 years ago sparked the Reformation, wrote that ‘a city’s best and greatest welfare, safety and strength consist in its having many able, learned, wise, honourable and welleducated citizens’. Plus Ultra 2025 is St Peters vision for an education that seeks to form many able, learned, wise, honourable and well-educated young people who respond to these challenges and make a difference in the world by leading and serving the communities in which they live. Plus Ultra 2025, in rising to these challenges aspires to create a future-focused education in a Christian context that empowers fine young people. Our world has much need for the fine young people of St Peters. In charting our course for this decade Plus Ultra 2025 remains true to the vision of founding Headmaster of St Peters Indooroopilly, 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’.
Introduction
Plus Ultra 2025, our Strategic Intent builds on the successes of the past, 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. This plan provides a road map to help St Peters reach its vision and mission and a mechanism through which we can be held accountable. The next steps will be translating these 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 of 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. 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.
Tim Kotzur Head of College
