St Paul's School, Bald Hills

Infobox Aust school
name = St Paul's School


motto = "Fide et Literis"
(Latin:"By Faith and By Learning")
established = 1961
type = Independent
principal = Mr Paul Browning
city = Brisbane
state = Queensland
country = Australia
campus = Bald Hills
enrolment = 1600 (Prep - 12)
colours = Cardinal Red & Bottle Green
homepage = [http://www.stpauls.qld.edu.au/ www.stpauls.qld.edu.au]

St Paul's is a co-educational private school in the Anglican tradition located in Bald Hills on the northside of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The school first opened on 31 January 1961 and is named after St Paul's School in London.

Headmasters

*Mr Peter Krebs (1960 - 1978)
*Mr Gilbert Case (1979 - 2000)
*Mrs Margaret Goddard (2001 - 2007)
*Mrs Patricia Evans - Interim Head (2007 - 2008)
*Mr Paul Browning (2008 - Present)

House System

Every student at St Paul's is a member of one of the ten Houses listed below. Each House is named after an influential figure in the history of the school:
*Arnott: Archbishop Felix Arnott, successor to Strong, and head of the School Council until 1980.
*Baker: Mr John Baker - a teacher at St Paul's for twenty-three years. He was heavily involved, with Ken Sutton, in establishing and running the sporting life of the School.
*Gartside: Mr Horace Gartside was associated with the School from the outset.
*Grindrod: Bishop Sir John Grindrod offered support and guidance to the School during his period as Archbishop of Brisbane throughout the 1980s.
*Halse: Archbishop Halse, as head of the Diocese and an old boy of St Paul's, London, was associated with the School's formation. Archbishop Halse had been founding headmaster of All Souls' Charters Towers.
*Ivor Church: Canon Ivor Church, associated with the Committee who selected the School site.
*Stewart: John Stewart, the original Scottish settler on the present School site (1857). Bunya and hoop pines planted by John Stewart are still standing.
*Strong: Archbishop Sir Phillip Strong, successor to Halse, a past chairman of the School Committee.
*Sutton: Mr Kenneth G. Sutton was one of the three original staff members of St Paul's and became the first Senior Master. He served at the School from 1961 to 1982 and was responsible for establishing many of the School traditions. He also served as President of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Qld.).
*Tooth: Sir Edwin Marsden Tooth, a Brisbane Company Director and philanthropist whose bequest was responsible for the School's formation.

The junior school has its own four houses which are named after famous Australian authors:
*Ingpen
*Klien
*Rudd
*Thiele

Cocurricular

port

The school is a member of The Associated Schools (TAS): a group of independent schools similar to the GPS competition, formed for the purpose of inter-school sporting competition. St Paul's competes in the following sports at the senior level:

;TAS Boys Years 8–12Cricket, volleyball, swimming, cross-country, rugby, tennis, athletics, basketball, soccer.

;TAS Girls Years 8–12Cricket ,Basketball, swimming, tennis, hockey, netball, cross-country, soccer, softball, volleyball, athletics.

;Other (non-TAS) Senior and Middle School sportsBadminton, fencing, mountain biking, AFL, touch football, golf.

Debating

St Paul's School actively encourages student participation in cultural pursuits such as debating. The school competes in competitions run by two organisations, enjoying great success in both:the Queensland Debating Union and the Circuit Debating Society.

Music

St Paul's is renowned for the quality of its Music Department and state-of-the-art facilities. The school has many bands, vocal groups, ensembles and strings groups.

Every year St Paul's produces a School Musical. These alternate between Middle School and full-school Productions. In recent years, musicals such as Tom Sawyer, Into The Woods, Guys and Dolls and Footloose have been performed.

The tradition of evenings of one act plays began with the trial scene from "The Merchant of Venice". Other earlier productions include: Annie Get Your Gun (1977); South Pacific (1978);
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996); Glamalot (1997); The Hound of Music (1998); and Anything Goes (2000).

St Paul's also enjoys an annual 'Battle of the Bands' competition. The event was originally started in 1998 as a fundraiser for Arnott house by former house captains Luke Pomery and Reginal Ram.

Notable Alumni

*Daryl Somerville - Chairman, Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Club
*Rod Welford - State Minister for Education, Training and the Arts, former Attorney-General; member for Everton
*Peter Dutton - Former Federal Assistant Treasurer; member for Dickson
*Joe Dawes - 1987 - Queensland Bulls fast bowler
*Lee Zahner - 1990 - Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Volleyball team
*Ben Tune - 1994 - Queensland Reds & Australian Wallabies player
*Geoff Trappett - 1996 - Australian Paralympian 2000 (Gold 100m T54, Silver 4x100m T54) & 2004 (Silver 4x100m T53-54)
*Troy Coker - Australian Wallabies player
*Bronwyn Knox - Australian Water polo Player, Australian Olympian

exual abuse incident

In 2003, St Paul's School was the subject of public scrutiny after former students claimed that they had been abused by Kevin Lynch, a staff member employed at the time. Lynch was employed as a school counselor at Brisbane Grammar School during the 1970s and 1980s, and subsequently at St Paul's School. [http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20700679-3102,00.html Courier Mail] ] [http://www.personalinjurylawyers.com.au/case.asp personalinjurylawyers.com] ] [ [http://www.australianpolitics.com/states/qld/2003/03-04-30_anglican-report.pdf Anglican report (pdf)] .] 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. [ [http://ncrnews.org/abuse2005b-archives/013342.html ncrnews.org] ] In 1997, shortly after having been charged with the sexual abuse of students at Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul's, Lynch committed suicide. [http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20700679-3102,00.html Courier Mail] ] In 2003, the former students rejected out-of-court compensation from the school, and pursued compensation through the law firm Shine Roche McGowan.

References

ee also

*List of schools in Queensland

External links

* [http://www.stpauls.qld.edu.au/ St Paul's School website]