Saint Paul's In The News

A success story!

Channel FIVE News

Saint Paul's was once again a feature on Channel FIVE news! The role of Saint Paul's within this feature, based on the annual report from Ofsted inspectors, focused on the strategies put in place to ease behaviour management. It pointed out the effective staggered breakfast and lunch routine we have in place.

We, as stated in our prospectus, run breakfast for different classes at different times between 8.15 and 9.45 am which is the timing of period one and 30mins for lunch between 12.25 and 2.10 pm. Previously, students would have been sent outside for a 15 or 30-minute break each morning/afternoon all at the same time, making the playground extremely overcrowded and the likelihood of incidents far greater.

Our staggered break system enables us to reduce congestion and overcrowding whilst also reducing the demand for behavior management; having 200 students in the playground at any one time is far more manageable than a whole school of 800+ students.

These rotational breaks also bring about a calming atmosphere around the school and a reduction in any potential bullying.

To quote the report, Saint Paul's was also referred to as 'one of Greenwich's success stories' echoing our top position within Greenwich GCSE performance league tables.

Gaelic football is catching on

The Time Educational Supplement (09/02/2007)

The stars of the game are far from household names and the rules are a little hard to grasp, but an unusual sport is exercising pupils at an inner-London school.

Gaelic football has become the surprise hit at St Paul's academy in Greenwich, south London, where it was introduced six years ago and is now the main summer sport. It forms part of the GCSE PE curriculum.

Niall McCann, the director of sport, said: "The passion the pupils show when they play is phenomenal. "There is always a great buzz around the school when the Gaelic football season is on."

The school teams play weekend games against London clubs and 25 boys will travel to Ireland in May for a tour on the sport's home soil.

David Marley