STICKING TO THE LEARNER PROFILE IN PRIMARY

The College Bell, a 160-year-old bell, was smartened up and recommissioned last year. It garnered more attention than ever before during its years as the one and only College Bell, when every 2022 Year 12 student rang the bell in the Chapel forecourt as part of their graduation celebrations.

The bell has a long and interesting history. It travelled from Germany in the 1870s when German families fled their homeland because of religious persecution. One of three bells, each with its unique tone, it belonged to the Benfer family who, alongside the Heinemanns and Holzapfels, settled in Mt Cotton to begin farming. The bells were put into service on each farm to summon labourers for meals and to mark the beginning and end of each workday.

On 24 May 1945, the Benfer family presented the bell to the fledgling St Peters Lutheran College to call the students to meals and for assemblies in Ross Roy.

The bell started College service suspended from the fork of a pine tree near Ross Roy until it was blown down in a storm. It was then attached to a cross beam from one corner of the Ross Roy western verandah. As the College expanded, the bell was moved to a new location outside Headmaster Wilfred Schneider’s office, next to the dining hall.

There it hung and rang faithfully until Theile House was erected and the bell was moved to the eastern end of Luther House.

In the early 1970s, when the bell was nudging one hundred years of age, it was retired and replaced by a modern electric bell. Stored in an unlocked shed it disappeared until well into the 2020s. The mystery of its disappearance was attributed to a group of Old Scholars who were purported to have stolen the bell and later returned it. The truth behind this remains unknown.

Today, the bell resides in Ross Roy and there are plans to permanently display it in the foyer of the new Centre for Learning and Innovation where it can be viewed and appreciated by the College community.

In Upper Primary, a Visual Art project has helped to breathe life into the Learner

Profile Attributes central to the International Baccalaureate (IB) PYP framework.

As an introductory activity in Visual Art, Years 5 and 6 students were asked to design a character that represented one of the ten attributes of the Learner Profile, an essential element of the IB PYP framework.

The Learner Profile aims to establish a set of values that students strive to develop as they work towards becoming global citizens who respect themselves, others and the world around them. These attributes are: Inquirer; Knowledgeable; Thinker; Communicator;

Principled; Open-minded; Caring; Risk-Taker; Balanced and Reflective. As these qualities are recognised in students by their peers and teachers, they are informed of the value they are exhibiting. This is often reinforced by a card or a sticker displaying the attribute.

Once created, the designs were given to IB Art students in Years 11 and 12 and, with the help of Arts Curriculum Leader, Julie Seidel, a selection of the images was chosen for a limited run of stickers. The stickers are presented to children who demonstrate a particular attribute to encourage and support these valuable qualities of a St Peters Student.

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