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==Fees==
==Fees==
For students joining in Y7, Y8, Y9, or Y10, the fee per term is £4,841, including lunch and personal accident insurance but excludes textbooks and other extras. For students joining in Y12, the termly fee including lunch and insurance is £5,204. Music lessons, extra sports coaching and life drawing classes are charged extra and, thus, the costs on average amount to roughly £20,000 a year.
For students joining in Y7, Y8, Y9, or Y10, the fee per term is £4,841, including lunch and personal accident insurance but excludes textbooks and other extras. For students joining in Y12, the termly fee including lunch and insurance is £5,204. Music lessons, extra sports coaching and life drawing classes are charged extra and, thus, the costs amount to approximately £20,000 a year.


==Scholarships and Bursaries==
==Scholarships and Bursaries==

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This article is about the school in London. For the school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, see St Paul's School for Girls
St Paul's Girl's School
Location
Map
Hammersmith

England
Information
TypeIndependent school;
all-female
Established1904
High MistressMs. Clarissa Farr
Grades7-Sixth Form
WebsiteSt Paul's Girls' School website

St Paul's Girls' School is a senior independent school, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in west London, England.

History

In 1904 a new day school for girls was established by the trustees of the Dean Colet Foundation (founded by John Colet), which had run St Paul's School for boys since the sixteenth century. The buildings for the school were designed by the architect Gerald Horsley, the son of the painter John Callcott Horsley and one of the founder members of the Art Workers Guild.

The school has had several distinguished directors of music, most notably Gustav Holst (1905-34) and Herbert Howells (1936-62). Holst composed his St Paul's and Brook Green suites for the pupils at the school.

Present day

Students range from 11–18 years old, with approximately 720 pupils in total. The school emphasizes both academic and extracurricular activities. It has a strong musical tradition: Gustav Holst was Director of Music at the school during the period he composed his orchestral suite, The Planets; and John Gardner followed in his footsteps, writing many memorable pieces for the School, including his popular Christmas carols Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day and The Holly and the Ivy. Students progress to university after their secondary education, with 40-45% gaining entrance to the Oxbridge Colleges. Former and current pupils are known as Paulinas. There is no uniform (except for sports uniform for the younger years), which encourages individuality within the school community. St Paul's is a school with "many opportunities to offer". It is known for its academic excellence and the girls' confidence and freedom throughout the school and sometimes tops league tables in the UK.[citation needed] According to the Good Schools Guide, "For the bright, talented, motivated and confident girl, [it is an] exhilarating start to the big adventure."[1]

As measured by its position in the national league tables of GCSE and A level performance, and by its excellence in Music and the arts, the school has earned a reputation which today places it foremost among girls' schools in the country. In 2007, the school gained the highest-ever recorded GCSE results, with 87.1% gaining A* grades, and 99.1% of entries gaining A* or A.[citation needed]

Sport

The school has several sports fields, halls and tennis courts at its disposal. Generally regarded as the schools' main sport, lacrosse remains a focus, with teams regularly touring. Netball is also popular, as is rowing. In sport, the school is a traditional rival of Lady Eleanor Holles, Godolphin and Latymer (another indepenent girls' school situated in Hammersmith), and Latymer Upper School.

Writing

The school has numerous pupil-run magazines and newspapers: these include The Marble, M2, Marmor (the classics magazine, Latin for "marble"), The Concourse, exclusive to the sixth form, and Words, a creative writing magazine.

The main school creative writing competition, the Monica Dickens, runs once a year, although there are others, and the school is also represented at national creative writing competitions: in the past two years alone Paulinas have won or been placed in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year competition, the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year competition, the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition with Corpus Christi, the Martin Wills (three Paulinas were shortlisted in the 2009 competition), the Artsrichmond Young Writers Festival. Every year a delegation attends the Arvon courses, entry into which is competitive.

Fees

For students joining in Y7, Y8, Y9, or Y10, the fee per term is £4,841, including lunch and personal accident insurance but excludes textbooks and other extras. For students joining in Y12, the termly fee including lunch and insurance is £5,204. Music lessons, extra sports coaching and life drawing classes are charged extra and, thus, the costs amount to approximately £20,000 a year.

Scholarships and Bursaries

Bursaries

The school awards up to ten means-tested bursaries to students who join in Y7 (two of which are funded by HSBC), and up to five more bursaries for students arriving in Y12. For candidates who join in Y12, there is also the Ogden Trust science award for a UK citizen currently at a non-independent school who wants to study both physics and maths at A level. Bursaries fund up to 100 per cent of tuition fees on a sliding scale depending on annual family income, assets and other information, plus exam entry fees and a grant towards textbooks. Holders of 100 per cent bursaries entering in Y12 also receive an extra package to cover the cost of sports uniforms and equipment, travel (where not covered by free London bus travel for under 18s), an annual contribution towards school visits and free tuition in one musical instrument.

Scholarships

Year 7: The school awards up to four academic scholarships and two music scholarships to 11+ entrants(worth £100 a year; the music scholarship also includes free tuition in one instrument).

Year 12: The school may also award two music scholarships to current students and two more to new joiners (worth £250 a year plus free tuition in two instruments), and two art scholarships (worth £250 a year) to internal and external candidates. The Nora Day music scholarship (worth up to 50% of school fees plus free tuition in two instruments) is awarded every other year to a new joiner who shows exceptional music potential. St Paul's also awards scholarships worth £250 a year for academic distinction in the 'Senior Scholarship', a dissertation written by students in Y12 during the Summer holiday following their AS exams.

High Mistresses of St Paul's Girls' School

The headmistress of St Paul's Girls School is known as the High Mistress.

  • Frances Ralph Grey OBE (d.1935), High Mistress 1903-1927
  • Ethel Strudwick CBE (1880-1954), High Mistress 1927-1948
  • Margaret Osborn (1906-1985), High Mistress 1948-1963
  • Dame Alison Munro DBE (1914 - September 9, 2008), High Mistress 1964-1974
  • Lady Brigstocke CBE (Heather Renwick Brigstocke, created Baroness Brigstocke 1990) (1929-2004), High Mistress 1974-1989
  • Helen Elizabeth Webber Williams (b. 1938), High Mistress 1989-1992
  • Janet Gough (b. 1940), High Mistress 1993-1998
  • Elizabeth Mary Diggory (1945-2007), High Mistress 1998-2006
  • Clarissa Mary Farr (b. 1958), High Mistress 2006-

Notable Old Paulinas

Alumnae of the school, known as Old Paulinas, include:

Politics

Journalism

The arts

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/st-pauls-girls-school.html
  2. ^ REYNOLDS, Barbara at Who's Who online (accessed 26 November 2007)
  3. ^ [http://www.vogue.co.uk/biographies/080422-alexandra-shulman.aspx*
  4. ^ TATE, Mavis Constance at Who's Who online (accessed 26 November 2007)
  5. ^ Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams from UXL Newsmakers (2005) (accessed 27 December 2007)

External links

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