The school opened on 31 January 1960 and takes its name from St Paul's School in London. St. Paul's School offers an academic and technical education as well as a range of co-curricular activities.
Leadership and sub-schools
St Paul's School's Principal is Mr John O'Sullivan Williams.[1] Within the school there are 4 sub schools:
Pre-Prep
New to school
Junior School
Prep to Year 6
Senior School
Year 7 to Year 12
International School
Provides education in Australia for international students
In 1857 the site of the school was first settled by Scottish settlers. In 1859, the British colony of Queensland was founded. In 1886 the original wooden building, the Old Farmhouse, was built. It still stands today.[4] On 13 February 1958 the Church of England acquired the property via a bequest from Sir Edwin Tooth for the "establishment of an all boys grammar school".[5] The Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Reginald Halse, was a former student of St Paul’s School in London and named the school after the one in London. The school also adopted the London school's motto "Fide et Literis” (“By Faith and by Learning”).[6]
The school opened on 31 January 1961 with a small staff of three and an enrolment of sixty-four boys between grades eight and twelve. Years later the school expanded its clientele and became fully co-educational. This allowed for a substantial increase in funds, which meant much-needed facilities could be built.
Campus
Location
St Paul's Campus is located in Bald Hills, approximately 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of the Brisbane central business district.[7] The school is situated on the bank of the South Pine River, on the border between the Brisbane City Council and Moreton Bay City Council. The area surrounding the school is a mix of residential and rural properties.[8]
Grounds and facilities
The School occupies a single 51-hectare (130-acre) campus, which includes both the school's buildings as well as its sporting fields and grazing land. A pair of hoop pines which were originally planted in the 1850s are now heritage-listed.[9]
Many of the buildings on the school campus are 40 years old. More modern facilities include the School Chapel, the Music Centre, the Middle School, the renovated Design/Technology building, the Geise Library and the new Science Laboratories. Construction was recently completed on the new Sutton Building, which replaced the old building of the same name at the beginning of 2012. It includes the school's first café – Sippers@Suttons as well as English classrooms and the international school.
The original blocks 1 & 2 used for Language classes, Food Technology and Computer Studies of the school are currently under revision.[10]
Sports
TAS (The Associated Schools) Sports
The St Paul's Anglican School sporting program is centred on membership of:
Junior TAS Competition (JTAS) for students in Years 4–6, the premier co-educational sporting associations of South East Queensland.
The School participates in TAS & JTAS Saturday Sporting fixtures over 3 trimesters. Each trimester is approximately nine weeks. The School also participates in Interschool Carnivals in Swimming, Cross-country and Athletics.
House system
Prior to 2017, the St. Paul's School house system consisted of ten secondary school houses and four junior school houses. The secondary school houses were Arnott, Baker, Gartside, Grindrod, Halse, Ivor Church, Stewart, Strong, Sutton, and Tooth, whereas the junior school houses were Rudd, Ingpen, Klein, and Theile. However, in late 2016, it was decided to establish a set of new houses across the entire school, based on elements of the school crest (Shield, Sword, Mitre, Crown, and Scroll) and to abolish the former junior school house system altogether. The new houses are:[11]
Founded
House
Head of House
2017
Boek
Lisa Bolger
2017
Gladius
Neil White
2017
Mitre
David Fenwick
2017
Scudo
Sophie Hughes
2017
Taja
Erica Trudgian
Sexual abuse
In 2003, St Paul's School was the subject of intense public scrutiny after former students stated that they had been abused by Kevin Lynch, a staff member employed at the time. Lynch was employed as a school counsellor at Brisbane Grammar School during the 1970s and 1980s, and subsequently at St Paul's School.[12][13] The students claimed that they were tortured, hypnotised and required to perform sexual acts for Lynch, and alleged that they had told St Paul's School staff about Lynch's activities, but were ignored.[12][14] In 1997, shortly after having been charged with the sexual abuse of students at Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul's, Lynch committed suicide.[12]
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