From the St Paul’s School Primary World Cup Football Day run by our staff and pupils, to inter-school sport within the West London Partnership, this funding can help us maximise the impact of our facilities and allow our boys to build links with the local community through sport, in collaboration with school and charity partners. Our ultimate aim would be for each major sport to have a partnership element, using our space and pupils to maximise local impact.

Music and Drama provision is under threat in the state sector. Through partnership with St Paul’s Girls’ School and the Jupiter project as well as the Barnes Music Festival and local theatres, we are perfectly placed to offer a local programme. We would also like to bring in primary sessions (e.g. drumming) as part of the St Paul’s Lower Eighth volunteering programme.

An area of strength for Partnerships. Help us build on our award winning summer schools and impactful regular programmes. Within this area, we would like to increase capacity in the Engineering department to grow various projects, including Lego League and Firefly Racing, for our own pupils and those at state schools.

*(various independent projects within – including mobile planetarium)

From Philosophy for Children at Primary School to our Sixth Form West London Partnership annual conference and Summer Schools, help us balance the focus on STEM. The current geopolitical environment emphasises the importance of the liberal arts and we would like to play our part in supporting that agenda.

St Paul’s is one of the leading UK schools for supporting pathways to top global universities. Help us collaborate within the West London Partnership and beyond, to ensure disadvantaged students have equal access and the support to succeed at the most competitive universities. As an example, over 80 students attended our Year 12 Oxbridge Day in June and we supported with interview
preparation in the Autumn Term, resulting in 23 offers for pupils.

We are also looking to partner with the Brilliant Club to take PHD-level learning to our partner schools and there are opportunities to support this work.

As we enter what some call the fourth industrial revolution,  teaching and developing generic soft skills – including the specific skills of enterprise – will be central to young people’s future success.

In 2018/19, Start It, the West London Partnership’s Sustainable Entrepreneurship Programme was founded to provide teaching, mentoring and meaningful opportunities for young people to become the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Please help us build on this success by using this model to facilitate more regional partnership groups between independent and state schools.

For over a decade, our weekly GCSE Latin programme has allowed state school pupils to study a subject that is not available in their schools. Help us expand this programme to maximise its impact on both ancient and modern languages. We would also like to introduce more language conferences where we could invite participation from state school partners.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Winnie the Pooh and our links with the book through the illustrator and Old Pauline, E.H. Shepard, we would like to use this moment to improve our forest school facilities. Our hope is to create an inspiring setting that can be used by pupils and partner schools. We are also looking to build sustainability more into our school community, both through the taught curriculum and wider action.

Since spring 2022, we have been working closely with St Mary’s Ukrainian School in London to help Ukrainian refugees access education. Please help us fund further camps, revision classes and potentially taking Colet Mentoring into Ukraine.

In 2023, more than ten teachers from St Paul’s have been working in local schools each week. As well as developing their own practice, they have supported the development of curriculum and teaching and learning strategies.

In 2025, St Paul’s School plans to establish an Initial Teacher Training hub in West London for Maths and Physics, expanding to other subjects in the following years to increase our long-term impact on teaching and learning.

We are also exploring seconding senior staff to local state school partners as a regular placement/exchange, bringing mutual CPD benefits in turn back to St Paul’s.

*(number of discrete opportunities within this area)

During the pandemic, we partnered with Tech start-up Easy A to launch Colet Mentoring, a peer-learning app that has enabled Paulines to provide circa 5,000 tutoring-type sessions to a range of pupils from UK primary schools to teenagers in South Sudan.

Building on this success, St Paul’s now wants to offer the best of what our teachers offer in classrooms via an online platform, St Paul’s Online: a series of courses that would stretch and challenge pupils in our unique way.

Alongside our residential summer schools, this will help us to support education beyond West London, building on links with several Multi-Academy Trusts.