St Peter’s culture of respect, openness and inclusivity prepares its students for life beyond school.

St Peter’s culture of respect, openness and inclusivity prepares its students for life beyond school.

As an Anglican school, St Peters’ espouses Christian values in every facet of activity, with a deep-seated culture of respect across colour, creed and background as outlined in the school’s Mission statement and Core Values of respect, honour, compassion, collaboration, resilience and responsibility.

 Code of Conduct

What is more important though is that the College’s Code of Conduct ensures that that the common thread of respect, openness and inclusivity is firmly embedded in every aspect of daily school activities. The Code of Conduct provides a framework for orderly and purposeful education but eschews traditional punitive measures in favour of a “restorative, responsible and self-disciplined approach.” It puts forward “enjoyment and fellowship with peers” as an integral part of a healthy learning environment and promises action when presented with viable concerns.

This set of fundamental values and principles is underpinned by a strong recognition of reciprocal fairness and social justice. It promotes a student-centric approach to education, encouraging individualism and self-efficacy, diversity and inclusion and fostering respect for cultural and religious differences. St Peter’s approach aims to prepare its students for life way beyond their school years and promotes acceptance of each stakeholder’s role and responsibilities within the school system.

Teachers

Teachers are expected to present the same positive work ethos in the classrooms and during all College activities as is expected from the Students. They undertake to treat all students with fairness, courtesy and respect and while discipline is implemented to correct inappropriate behaviour; positive recognition and reward are acknowledged as the first resort for sustained acceptable behaviour and achieving potential.

Parents

The College firmly embraces the role of parents in the learning process; seeking their active support of the College’s teaching efforts, encouraging them to lay down a moral, ethical, and disciplinary framework for the student in the home environment and encouraging open and free communication with the College team.

Students

For the students themselves, the principles of behaving courteously, responsibility, respectfully and without prejudice both in and outside of the school are offset by a set of student rights outlining what they may expect in return.  Here, the rights “to be treated with respect and fairness, irrespective of race, religion, creed, intelligence, gender, physical ability, language, sexual orientation, shape or size” and “to be taught by teachers who are fair, competent, socio-economic-political, and religiously conscious and sympathetic to our needs” indicate a forward-thinking ethos that will produce a well-balanced, strong, sensible and thoughtful next generation of leaders.