St Paul's Girls' School is an

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day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in

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, in

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, England.

History

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St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the

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in 1904, using part of the endowment of the foundation set up by

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, to create a girls' school to complement the

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he had founded in the sixteenth century. The governors hold proprietorial responsibility, and some are representatives of the Universities of

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and

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. The buildings for the school were designed by the architect Gerald Horsley, 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

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(1905–34) and Herbert Howells (1936–62). Holst composed his '' St Paul's'' and ''

'' suites for the pupils at the school. Holst also composed what is arguably his best known work, " The Planets", while teaching at St Paul's. John Linton Gardner held a part-time position as director of music at the school.

Exam results

St Paul's girls regularly perform extremely well in the

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s and

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. In 2014, 99.3% of GCSEs were graded at A*s or As with 93.6% graded at A* alone. This was the highest ever A* percentage achieved by the school and in the country. In 2016, the school achieved the highest A Level results in its history with 60.0% of entries achieving an A* grade and 93.8% of entries achieving A* or A grades. St Paul's Girls' School in London W6, spring 2013 (3)

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In the 2020 GCSE and IGCSE results, students were awarded the higher of their centre-assessed grade and the statistically adjusted calculated grade. 86% of entries were awarded a 9 grade (1% point higher than the 2019 outcome) and 97.9% of entries gained an 8 or 9 (which are equivalent to the old A* grade). In the 2020 A level and Pre-U results, 64.6% of entries attained an A* grade at A level or the Pre-U equivalent D1 or D2, while 92.4% of entries achieved an A* or A grade and 98.4% a B grade or higher (or the Pre-U equivalent).

Music

was director of music at the school from 1905 to 1934 when he died, including the period he composed his orchestral suites, including ''

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'' and '' The Planets''. He was succeeded by Herbert Howells before John Gardner followed in the 1960s. Gardner wrote many memorable pieces for the school, including his popular Christmas carols '' Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day'' and ''The Holly and the Ivy''. Hilary Davan Wetton was director of music from 1979 to 1994. In 1988 a CD with ''Children's favorite songs'' was released on the label Spectrum records. St Paul's Girls' School in London W6, spring 2013 (5)

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Drama

The school's main theatre, where most school productions are staged, is named after alumna

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. Other productions are staged in the drama studio which is a smaller space.

Bursaries and scholarships

Bursaries

The school awards means-tested bursaries to students who join in Y7 and for students arriving in Y12. Bursaries fund up to 100% of tuition fees on a sliding scale depending on family income and assets, plus exam entry fees and a grant towards textbooks. Holders of 100% bursaries entering in Y12 also receive an extra package to cover additional expenses, such as the cost of sports equipment and music tuition.

Scholarships

Year 7: The school awards up to four academic scholarships and, usually, about three or four music scholarships to 11+ entrants (worth £100 a year; the music scholarship also includes free tuition in two instruments). Year 12: The school may also award music scholarships to current students and to new joiners (worth 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 musical potential. The school also awards scholarships worth £250 a year for academic distinction in the "Senior Scholarship", a dissertation written by students in the summer holiday following Y12.

Sport

Rowing

The school has an active

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club called the St Paul's Girls' School Boat Club which is based on the

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. The club is affiliated to

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(boat code SPG) and has produced four British champion crews at the 1992 British Rowing Championships,

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2003 British Rowing Championships The 2003 British Rowing Championships known as the National Championships at the time, were the 32nd edition of the National Championships, held from 18–20 July 2003 at the Strathclyde Country Park in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. They were or ...

and 2011 British Rowing Championships.

High Mistresses

The headmistress of St Paul's Girls' School is known as the High Mistress. *Frances Ralph Grey (d.1935), High Mistress 1903–1927 * Ethel Strudwick (1880–1954), High Mistress 1927–1948, daughter of the

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painter

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*Margaret Osborn (1906–1985), High Mistress 1948–1963 * Alison Munro (1914–2008), High Mistress 1964–1974 * Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke (1929–2004), High Mistress 1974–1989 *Helen Elizabeth Webber Williams (born 1938), High Mistress 1989–1992 *Janet Gough (born 1940), High Mistress 1993–1998 *Elizabeth Mary Diggory (1945–2007), High Mistress 1998–2006 *Clarissa Mary Farr (born 1958), High Mistress 2006–2017 *Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress 2017–present

Old Paulinas

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

Arts

Gillian Ayres Gillian Ayres (3 February 1930 – 11 April 2018) was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination. Early life and education Gillian Ayres was bo ...

– artist *

Mischa Barton Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British-American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's '' Slavs!'' and took the lead in James Lapine's ''Twelve Dreams'' at Ne ...

– actress * Nicola Beauman – publisher, founder of

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Helen Binyon Helen Francesca Mary Binyon (9 December 1904 – 22 November 1979) was a British artist and writer. She was also a watercolour painter, an illustrator and a puppeteer. Biography Binyon was born in Chelsea in London, her father being the poet an ...

– artist * Lesley Blanch – author * Justin Blanco White – architect * Celia Brayfield – author *

Sophie Hunter Sophie Irene Hunter (born 16 March 1978) is an English theatre director, playwright and former actress and singer. She made her directorial debut in 2007 co-directing the experimental play ''The Terrific Electric'' at the Barbican Pit after her ...

– theatre and opera director *

Brigid Brophy Brigid Antonia Brophy, Lady Levey (12 June 19297 August 1995) was a British writer and campaigner for social reforms, including the rights of authors, and animal rights. The first of her seven novels was ''Hackenfeller's Ape'' (1953), a story c ...

– dramatist * Lucy Briers – actress * Margaret Calvert – graphic artist *

Miranda Carter Miranda Carter (born 1965) is an English historian, writer and biographer who also publishes fiction under the name MJ Carter.Jake Kerridge ''The Telegraph'', 23 April 2015. Education Carter was educated at St Paul's Girls School and Exeter Col ...

– biographer *

Edie Campbell Edith Blanche Campbell (born 25 September 1990) is an English model. In 2016, she made her second appearance on the cover of British Vogue. She has been a model for Chanel, Burberry and Hermès and is also an accomplished horse rider. Career ...

– model *

Cecilia Chancellor Cecilia Chancellor (born 1 September 1966) is a British model who has worked consistently since the 1980s and has been referred to as the living embodiment of the "London Girl" by ''British Vogue'' creative director Robin Derrick in his book ' ...

– model * Joan Cross – singer * Emma Darwin – author *

Monica Dickens Monica Enid Dickens, MBE (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Biography Known as "Monty" to her family and friends, she was born into an upper-middle-class London family to Henr ...

– author *

Suzi Digby Susan Elizabeth "Suzi" Digby, Baroness Eatwell Order of the British Empire, OBE (née Watts; born 1 July 1958) is a British choral conductor and music educator. She is an internationally renowned choral conductor and music educator. Digby foun ...

– conductor and musician * Flora Fraser – author *

Justine Frischmann Justine Elinor Frischmann (born 16 September 1969) is an English artist and retired musician. She was the lead singer of the Britpop band Elastica after forming Suede, before retiring from the music industry and pursuing a career as a painter ...

– musician * Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein) – artist * Francesca Gonshaw – actress *

Imogen Holst Imogen Clare Holst (; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her education ...

– musician * Ursula Howells – actress *

– actress *

Rachel Johnson Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including '' The Pledge'' on Sky News and BBC One's debate programme, '' Questi ...

– journalist and editor * Jane M. Joseph – musician and composer * Amy Key Clarke – poet and author * Marghanita Laski – author * Nicola LeFanu – composer *

Amanda Levete Amanda Jane Levete CBE, RA (17 November 1955) explores the transformation of space through her numerous buildings and furniture pieces. Levete enjoys creating the unexpected, and exploring the utilization of opposition. Levete is known for the ...

– architect *

Alice Lowe Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977)England & Wales births 1837 – 2006 is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Dr. Haynes in '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in '' Garth Maren ...

– actress/author *

Jessica Mann Jessica Mann (13 September 1937 – 10 July 2018) was a British writer and novelist. She also wrote several non-fiction books, including ''Out of Harm's Way'', an account of the overseas evacuation of children from Britain in World War II. Biog ...

– author *

Yvonne Mitchell Yvonne Mitchell (born Yvonne Frances Joseph; 7 July 1915 – 24 March 1979) was an English actress and author. After beginning her acting career in theatre, Mitchell progressed to films in the late 1940s. Her roles include Julia in the 1954 BBC ...

– actress/author *

Emily Mortimer Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British-American actress. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performanc ...

– actress * Santha Rama Rau – author * Joely Richardson – actress * Natasha Richardson – actress *

Georgina Rylance Georgina Elizabeth Rylance (born 20 April 1976) is an English actress, best known for '' Dinotopia''. Early life Born in Ladbroke Grove in 1976, Rylance has a younger sister, Charlotte, and is the daughter of Judge John Rylance QC, a circuit ju ...

– actress * Katherine Shonfield – architect * Dodie Smith – playwright *

Catherine Storr Catherine Storr, Baroness Balogh (born Catherine Cole; 21 July 1913 – 8 January 2001,Eccleshare (2005) gives the date of her death as 8 January; Eccleshare (2001) and Thwaite (2001) give it as 6 January.) was an English children's writer, best ...

– author * Imogen Stubbs – actress *

Emma Tennant Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a femin ...

– author *

Angela Thirkell Angela Margaret Thirkell (; , 30 January 1890 – 29 January 1961) was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, ''Trooper to Southern Cross'', under the pseudonym Leslie Parker. Early life She was the elder daughter of ...

– author * Mary Treadgold – author *

Salley Vickers Salley Vickers (born 1948) is a British novelist whose works include ''Miss Garnet's Angel'', ''Mr. Golightly's Holiday'', ''The Other Side of You'' and ''Where Three Roads Meet'', a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last mo ...

– author * Samantha Weinberg – author *

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– actress * Antonia White – author

Business

* Isabel dos Santos – wealthiest woman in Africa as of 2020 * Grace Beverley – founder of Tala and Shreddy

Culinary arts

Thomasina Miers Thomasina Jean "Tommi" Miers, OBE (born February 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is the co-founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants. Early life Thomasina Jean "Tommi" Miers was born in F ...

– chef and founder of ''Wahaca'' restaurant chain * Henrietta Lovell – founder of the Rare Tea Company

Education

Eleanora Carus-Wilson Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson (1897 – 1 February 1977) was a British economic historian. She is known for her work on rural Medieval textile industries in England. She made significant contributions to the understanding of Medieval technology in ...

– economic historian * Sheila Forbes – principal,

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Henrietta Harrison Henrietta Katherine Harrison, (born 1967) is a British historian, sinologist, and academic. Education and career Henrietta Harrison was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith, Newnham College, Cambridge (BA 1989), Harvard Universit ...

– professor of Modern Chinese Studies,

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* Jessica Rawson – warden,

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Barbara Reynolds Eva Mary Barbara Reynolds (13 June 1914 – 29 April 2015) was an English scholar of Italian Studies, lexicographer and translator. She wrote and edited several books concerning Dorothy Sayers and was president of the Dorothy L. Sayers Soci ...

– scholar *

Joan Robinson Joan Violet Robinson (''née'' Maurice; 31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British economist well known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. She was a central figure in what became known as post-Keynesian economics. ...

– economist

Humanitarianism

* Myrtle Solomon – pacifist and former chair War Resisters' International

Law

Sonia Proudman Dame Sonia Rosemary Susan Proudman, DBE (born 30 July 1949), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Proudman, is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. Education Proudman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxf ...

– High Court Judge

Journalism and media

* Emily Buchanan – BBC World Affairs correspondent *

Clemency Burton-Hill Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill (born 1981) is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress. In January 2020 she suffered an AVM brain haemorrhage and underwent eme ...

– broadcaster and author *

– model and socialite *

Victoria Coren Mitchell Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell (' Coren; born ) is a British writer, TV presenter and professional poker player. Coren Mitchell writes weekly columns for ''The Telegraph'' and has hosted the BBC television quiz show ''Only Connect'' since 2 ...

– presenter, poker player * Daisy Donovan – TV presenter * Stephanie Flanders – BBC Economics editor *

Amelia Gentleman Amelia Sophie Gentleman, (born 1972) is a British journalist. She is a reporter for '' The Guardian'', and won the Paul Foot Award for reporting the Windrush scandal. Early life and education Born in London in 1972, Gentleman is the daughter ...

– journalist *

Bronwen Maddox Bronwen Maria Maddox (born 7 May 1963) is a former journalist who has served as the director and CEO of think tank Chatham House since August 2022. Prior to this, she was the Director of the Institute for Government between 2016 and 2022. Maddo ...

– senior journalist at '

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' newspaper * Veronica Pedrosa – Al Jazeera English correspondent * Sophie Raworth – news reader * Susanna Reid – news presenter * Anne Scott-James – journalist and editor * Alexandra Shulman – editor-in-chief, Vogue 1992–2017 * Carol Thatcher – journalist * Erica Wagner – author, critic, and literary editor of ''

'' * Eirene White, Baroness White – journalist and Labour politician *

Petronella Wyatt Petronella "Petsy" Aspasia Wyatt (born 6 May 1968) is a British journalist and author. Most recently, she has described herself as an ornamental fountain. Early life and education Wyatt was born on 6 May 1968 at 12 Devonshire Street, West Londo ...

– journalist

Politics

* Jane Bonham Carter – Liberal Democrat peer * Vicky Ford, Conservative MP and formerly MEP *

Harriet Harman Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell and Peckham, formerly Peckham, since 1982. A member of the Labour Party, she has served in various Cabi ...

– Labour MP, former Acting Leader of the Labour Party, former Leader of the Opposition and former Cabinet minister *

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– former Liberal Democrat MP * Mavis Tate – Conservative MP and women's rights campaigner * Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Conservative MP *

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– member of the British House of Lords * Eirene White, Baroness White – Labour

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then

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Shirley Williams Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, (' Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from ...

– former Labour Education Secretary and co-founder of the

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Science

* Kate Bingham – venture capitalist * Ruth Bowden – anatomist * Caroline Deys – doctor *

Rosalind Franklin Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, ...

– scientist, research led to discovery of the structure of DNA * Jean Ginsburg – physiologist, endocrinologist * Christine Hamill – mathematician *

Kathleen Kenyon Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...

– archaeologist *

Irene Manton Irene Manton, FRS FLS (born Irène Manton; 17 April 1904, in Kensington – 13 May 1988) was a British botanist who was Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds. She was noted for study of ferns and algae. Biography Irene Manton was th ...

– botanist *

Sidnie Manton Sidnie Milana Manton (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was an influential British zoologist. She is known for making advances in the field of functional morphology. She is regarded as being one of the most outstanding zoologists of the twentieth ...

– entomologist * Onora O'Neill – philosopher * Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – astronomer * Catherine Peckham – doctor and scientist * Joan Beauchamp Procter – zoologist, herpetologist

Sport

* Kitty Godfree – tennis player *

Lara Prior-Palmer Lara Prior-Palmer (born 24 June 1994) is an athlete and writer. She is the niece of British equestrian Lucinda Green. Mongol Derby In 2013 Prior-Palmer became the first woman to win the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race, as well as ...

– equestrian * Cecilia Robinson – cricket * Zoe de Toledo – rowing

Notable former staff

Margaret Cole Dame Margaret Isabel Cole (née Postgate; 6 May 1893 – 7 May 1980) was an English socialist politician, writer and poet. She wrote several detective stories jointly with her husband, G. D. H. Cole. She went on to hold important posts in Lo ...

– socialist politician, former

Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

teacher *

– composer, pioneer of music education for girls * Nicola LeFanu – director of music during the 1970s

Controversy

The school was in the news in November 2017 with allegations of sexual abuse between the 1970s and 1990s. One teacher resigned on 22 November 2017 amidst these allegations.

References

External links

Official School Website
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