St Paul’s Girls’ School, High Master / High Mistress

The emphasis on liberal learning was established at St Paul’s Girls’ School from the
outset and it finds expression today in an academically adventurous curriculum
which encourages intellectual freedom, discovery and the joy of scholarship. St
Paul’s provides its students with a lively, creative, forward-thinking and open-
minded academic community equipped with excellent facilities for all subjects and
activities. There is a vibrant co-curricular life as well as a busy programme of
partnership and service activities, demonstrating the importance of collaboration,
diversity, and inclusion.

St Paul’s believes passionately that it is its moral duty to contribute to social
mobility through education. The school’s bursary programme currently provides
financial support to 10% of students, and the school is at the early stages of an
exciting journey to double that figure.

An education at St Paul’s is underpinned by a commitment to supporting student
wellbeing, enabling its capable young students to contribute now and in the future.
The school values kindness as highly as courage, inclusivity and intellectual
curiosity.

To support the curriculum and learning, the school is investing significantly in a
programme of building works and refurbishment, including a new Centre for
Design and Innovation.

St Paul’s is also at the beginning of an important new chapter in its history with the
recent opening of its first international sister school in Chengdu, China, and plans
to develop a network of International schools in China and beyond.

This is an exceptional opportunity to lead an extraordinary school. Not only does St
Paul’s regularly achieve amongst the best public examination results in the
country, but it has a truly distinctive ethos, focused on nurturing creativity,
curiosity, and a love of academic discovery. St Paul’s is a school full of opportunity
and the new High Mistress / High Master will relish working in such an energising
environment, building on the solid foundations of the past to ensure that the
education provided today remains forward-looking and responsive to future needs.
The new High Mistress / High Master will have the opportunity to contribute to
and shape this vision and to drive it onwards, working closely and openly with a
supportive Chair and governing body.

The search for a new High Mistress / High Master for St Paul’s Girls’ School is being
led by RSAcademics and the new post-holder will be selected by the Governors,
chaired by Mr Simon Wathen, Chair of Governors.