Vision
When we celebrated 500 years of St Paul’s in 2009, we looked to the past with gratitude — and forward, to an exciting future. These are some of the aims we have set ourselves.
- To take a leading role in education: retaining the best of traditional academic education, we must seek to use our
independence and status to innovate and to lead.
- To create a meritocracy: our founder, John Colet, saw his school as committed to the value and richness of diversity. We will always welcome bright and able boys on the basis of their potential, regardless of race or religion.
- To have a needs-blind entry: we aspire to become the first leading academic
school in the country to adopt this approach, welcoming gifted young pupils regardless of economic background.
- To provide inspirational teaching: we seek to lead the way in recruiting top graduates into teaching,
to find the best qualified and most inspirational teachers with the energy and
commitment to lead and inspire inside and outside the classroom.
- To continue to provide outstanding pastoral care: care of the individual must always rank alongside our academic
and extra-curricular ambitions — unhappy
boys do not succeed.
- To commit to the community: service is integral to our foundation. The development of our innovative and wide-ranging community programmes is a priority.
- To construct an inspirational physical environment: we must strive for quality without ostentation, for a physical environment that will educate and enhance the quality of our pupils’ lives.
Central to all our aims and ethos is the realisation that what a young man does outside the classroom can inform, influence and change his life as much as what takes place within it.
Professor Mark Bailey,
