Writing
The school has numerous pupil-run magazines and newspapers: these include, but are not limited to, The Marble, M2, Marmor (the classics magazine, Latin for "marble"), "Words" (the creative writing magazine), and The Foreigner (the modern languages magazine).
The main school creative writing competition, the Monica Dickens, runs once a year, although there are others, and the school is also represented at national creative writing competitions: in the past two years alone Paulinas have won or been highly commended in the Foyle Young Poet of the Year competition, the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year competition, the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition with Corpus Christi, the Martin Wills (three Paulinas were shortlisted in the 2009 competition), the Artsrichmond Young Writers Festival. Every year a delegation attends the Arvon courses, entry into which is competitive.
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