Welcome to St Paul's High School Booragul!

St Paul's Booragul is a secondary co-educational high school for students in Year 7 to Year 12.

St Paul's High School commenced in February 1984. The school opened with an enrolment of approximately 240 in both years 7 and 8. 1994 saw the completion of the permanent library and its official opening. The school commenced senior studies in 2000. Our current enrolment is approximatly 900 students in years 7 to 12.

 

Principal's Message:

2010 HSC Results 鈥� St Paul鈥檚 First In the Diocese

It was with much celebration, that we unpacked the HSC results last year, to reveal that we had attained the best HSC results since the school extended to Yr 11 and 12 back in 2000. We were contacted by the Newcastle Herald to be the lead story on the HSC results across the Hunter and Central Coast. Many of you might have seen the article and I had many positive comments from parents and students past and present.
This result hasn鈥檛 just happened by accident or because we had one particularly bright Yr 12 group. As a school and staff we have been working on a Three Year Plan to gradually improve the Academic Results at the top level of the HSC. It was great to see over the past few years our number of Band 6s increasing.

While it is great to celebrate our top students, Newspapers never report on how schools do wonderful things with students at the lower end. Two statistics to demonstrate success at the Band 1 and 2 level:

• 32 out of our 36 courses had no Band 1鈥檚
• 21 out of our 36 courses had no Band 2鈥檚

Obviously the students and their families need to be congratulated on their efforts. However, I would like to make particular mention to the dedicated staff across the whole school for their tireless efforts in striving to help students reach their full potential.

There was one misquote from the Herald article that I would like to correct. It reported that I was disappointed with the 2009 results. This is NOT CORRECT. In fact, the 2009 results were our best results until 2010!

I would like to single out three students for particular mention:

• Nikita Panicker and Nicola Moss who were on the NSW All-Round Achievers List for achieving 90 or more (Band 6) in 10 or more units.
• Nicola Moss and Tara Ehsman for coming 4th and 5th in the State in German Beginners. A very special achievement for them and their teacher Mrs Edwina Pichler.

P & F Meeting, Wednesday 2nd February
Our first meeting of the new year will occur tonight. Besides the usual information pack, engaging and brief meeting, I will present the HSC & SC results from 2010.

It鈥檚 Moments Like These 鈥︹��.that Make me proud to be the Principal of St Paul鈥檚

In the last week of last year two students found money in the yard and class rooms and handed it into the Office. Congratulations to Tysen Maybury (Yr 10) and Joshua Brown (Yr 12) for your honesty.

Student Achievement
Congratulations to Hayden Sheard (Yr 10) on his selection in the final selection trials for the IOC鈥檚 2012 Youth Olympic Winter Games Individual Skills Challenge. If selected, Hayden will be only one of fifteen who would compete in these games in Austria. Hayden鈥檚 sport is Ice Hockey and it is a very high honour to reach this stage.

Thought of the Week鈥︹��...
鈥淭he real measure of wealth:
Is how much you鈥檇 be worth
if you lost all your money.鈥�

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Mr. Tony Stevens.