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CHOOSE KINDNESS With such a whirlwind start to the year, the students at St Peters Springfield have chosen to spread kindness across the College and community.
MAI THATCHER
Springfield Marketing & Events Officer
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n Term 2, our Upper Primary students began their ‘Thriving Thursdays’. Students from Years 4 to 6 were given the opportunity during a double lesson every Thursday to undertake activities that tap into their passions and serve others.
were all delighted to receive their pots. This simple act of empathy and generosity helped strengthen bonds across the College. The Kindness Crew is now searching for their next project to help spread more kindness throughout the community.
A group of 15 students decided to create the ‘Kindness Crew’ as part of their Thriving Thursday initiative. The Kindness Crew aims to spread friendship, support and positivity throughout the College through kind deeds and acts of service.
Another group of students participating in Thriving Thursday saw a different opportunity for service. They noticed the need for an ‘Environmental Club’. Their first project was to clean and refresh the Spiritual Garden at St Peters Springfield, originally provided by the Lutheran Laypeople’s League. The club will plant new flowers and herbs. They hope the Spiritual Garden will be a space of relaxation and inspiration.
It was wonderful to see our students being so selfless and generous with their free time, truly reflecting the College’s ethos of showing care, dignity and respect to others around them. The students decided that their first project was to create messages of encouragement for students who were going to sit for their NAPLAN in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. The Kindness Crew created ‘Pots of Kindness’. These pots held handwritten notes to help ease students into the testing period. Students in these NAPLAN years
Plus Ultra | June 2022
At St Peters Springfield, the concept of serving others is important to teach our students. Our Year 11 students have recently focused on serving others as they ready themselves for being leaders of the College next year. The students have volunteered their free time to help the
