St Paul's School, Bald Hills

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St Paul's School

Fide et Literis (By Faith and By Learning)
Established	1961
School type	Independent
Principal/ Headmaster	Margaret Goddard
Location	Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Campus	Bald Hills
Enrollment	1500 (Prep - 12)
School colours	Cardinal Red & Bottle Green
Homepage	http://www.stpauls.qld.edu.au/

St Paul's is a co-educational private school 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.

1 Headmasters
2 House System
3 Cocurricular
- 3.1 Sport
- 3.2 Debating
4 Music
5 Notable Alumni
6 Sexual abuse incident
7 Notes
8 External links

[edit] Headmasters

Mr Peter Krebs (1960 - 1978)
Mr Gilbert Case (1979 - 2000)
Mrs Margaret Goddard (2001 - Present)

[edit] 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 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

[edit] Cocurricular

[edit] Sport

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 8–12

Cricket, volleyball, swimming, cross-country, rugby, tennis, athletics, basketball, soccer.

TAS Girls Years 8–12

Basketball, swimming, tennis, hockey, netball, cross-country, soccer, softball, volleyball, athletics.

Other (non-TAS) Senior and Middle School sports

Badminton, fencing, mountain biking, AFL, touch football, golf.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 this year's 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)

[edit] Notable Alumni

Rod Welford - State Minister for Education, Training and the Arts, former Attorney General; member for Everton
Peter Dutton - Federal Assistant Treasurer; member for Dickson
Joe Dawes - 1987 - Queensland Bulls Fast bowler
Ben Tune - 1994 - Queensland Reds & Australian Wallabies player
Tim Trudgian - 2001 - Monash Scholar, Oxford University

[edit] Sexual 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 1970's and 1980's, and subsequently at St Paul's School.^[1]^[2] ^[3] 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.^[1]^[4] In 1997, shortly after having been charged with the sexual abuse of students at Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul's, Lynch committed suicide.^[1] In 2003, the former students rejected out-of-court compensation from the school, and pursued compensation through the law firm Shine Roche McGowan.