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The school first opened on 31 January 1961 and is named after St Paul's School in London. January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... St Pauls School St Pauls School is a boys public school, founded in 1509 by John Colet. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Headmasters

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

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.

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 this year's Footloose have been performed. Tom Sawyer (born 1833?) is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). ... Into the Woods is an award-winning musical featuring a score by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. ... Guys and Dolls Original Broadway Cast recording (1950) Guys And Dolls is a hit 1950 musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser. ... Footloose is a 1984 movie that tells the story of Ren McCormick (played by Kevin Bacon), a teenager who was raised in Chicago and moves to a small town where the town government has banned dancing and rock music. ...

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) This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the song by Guns N Roses, see Anything Goes (song) Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. ...

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

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
• Geoff Trappett - 1996 - Australian Paralympian 2000 (Gold 100m T54, Silver 4x100m T54) & 2004 (Silver 4x100m T53-54)
• Tim Trudgian - 2001 - Monash Scholar, Oxford University
• Lee Zahner - 1990 - 2000 Sydney Olympian in Volleyball

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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. The Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) is a non-denominational, independent boys school located in the suburb of Spring Hill in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ... The Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) is a non-denominational, independent boys school located in the suburb of Spring Hill in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ... Suicide (Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally taking ones own life. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Courier Mail
2. ^ personalinjurylawyers.com
3. ^ Anglican report (pdf).
4. ^ ncrnews.org

See also

• List of schools in Queensland

According to the Education Queensland website, there are, or have been, at least 2185 registered schools in Queensland. ...

External links

• St Paul's School website