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History

John Colet founded St Paul's School for boys in 1509. In 1904 a new day school for girls was established by the trustees of the Dean Colet Foundation, which had run St Paul's School 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. John Colet, (January 1467 – September 10, 1519), was an English churchman and educational pioneer. ... St Pauls School St Pauls School is a boys public school. ... 1509 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a holder of property on behalf of some other beneficiary. ... John Colet, (January 1467 – September 10, 1519), was an English churchman and educational pioneer. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... John Callcott Horsley (January 29, 1817 - October 18, 1903), English painter, son of William Horsley, the musician, and grand-nephew of Sir Augustus Callcott, was born in London. ... The Art Workers Guild is an organisation established in 1884 by a group of young architects associated with the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. ...

Students range from 11-18 years old, with approximately 680 pupils in total. The school emphasizes both academic and extracurricular activities. It has a firm musical tradition. Gustav Holst was Director of Music at the school during the period he composed his orchestral suite, The Planets. John Gardner followed in his footsteps, writing many memorable pieces for the School, including his popular Christmas carol Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day. Most students progress to university after their secondary education, with 35-40% gaining entrance to the Oxbridge Colleges. Former and current pupils are known as Paulinas (rhymes with 'lip-liner'). The school, in common with many independent schools, employs an idiosyncratic nomenclature for the different years: Extracurricular activities are activities performed by students that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education. ... Gustav Holst Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - May 25, 1934) [1] [2] was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. ... An orchestral suite is a suite of stylized dances for orchestra, either originally composed (like the four Orchestral Suites by Bach) or as a series of brief orchestral excerpts from a longer work, such as a ballet or opera. ... LP album, Zubin Mehta conducting CD album, Herbert von Karajan conducting The Planets (also known as The Planets Suite), opus 32, [1] is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. ... John Gardner, CBE (born 1917 in Manchester, England) is an English composer of classical music. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Oxbridge is a name used to refer to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world. ...

• Year 7 is known as the Middle Fourth
• Year 8 is the Upper Fourth
• Year 9 is the Lower Fifth
• Year 10 is the Fifth
• Year 11 is the Sixth
• Year 12 is the Seventh
• Year 13 is the Eighth

The current High Mistress is Clarissa Farr, who replaced Elizabeth Diggory in the Autumn Term of 2006. Sadly, Miss Diggory died on March 18th 2007, only 8 months after retirement, following the third recurrence of breast cancer, a disease she had managed bravely to fight off during her career.

Notable alumnae

• Rosalind Franklin - scientist
• Shirley Williams - former Labour Education Secretary and co-founder of the SDP
• Rachel Weisz - actress
• Jane Bonham Carter - Liberal Democrat peer and former TV executive
• Georgina Rylance - actress
• Monica Dickens - writer
• Sophie Raworth - broadcaster
• Natasha Richardson - actress
• Harriet Harman - Labour MP and Government Minister
• Celia Johnson - actress
• Susan Kramer - Liberal Democrat MP
• Imogen Stubbs - actress
• Jessica Rawson - Warden, Merton College, Oxford
• Emily Mortimer- actress
• Alexandra Shulman - magazine editor
• Rachel Johnson - Author and sister of MP Boris Johnson

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External link

• St Paul's Girls' School website