St Pauls Catholic College, (

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as St Pauls), is an independent, fee-paying, Roman Catholic single-sex school for boys, located in Greystanes, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. The college is located on Old Prospect Rd. The college caters for students in years 7-12, with over 1,000 students and over 120 teachers. Famous alumni from St Pauls include Lewis Ward, Ryan Bath, Anthony Alam, Chuck Smith, Anthony Melhem, Dylan Bragg, Harley Codd and Chrissy Craven. The college is noted in honour of the

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. It was originally named St Simon Stock High School and Newman High School. It is behind the OLQP Parish in Greystanes and next to OLQP Primary School. Its vicinity becomes the host of the annual

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Festival around September.

History

St Paul's Catholic College was founded in 1958, built by Frank Cefai. It was commonly referred to as the new Catholic School in the district of Pendle Hill. It was originally named St Simon Stock School. The school took its motto ''Esto Vir'', which means "Be a Man". Over the years, the school took on a new name and motto. The 19th-Century English convert and thinker

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was the inspiration for the new name and the new motto was "Heart speaks to Heart". The school's library and resource centre adopted his name and named it 'John Henry Newman Library'. In 1999, the school was renamed again to St Paul's. The new motto for St Paul's is "Many Gifts – One Community".

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