Clubs & Organizations

Middle School

Middle-school clubs are varied and change yearly according to the interests of both the students and the teachers.

• Middle School Green Key Society: Members serve as school hostesses.





• Destination Imagination: This organization fosters creative problem-solving skills. At the beginning of the year, the girls choose a challenge from DI’s list of problems and spend the year preparing for the regional tournament.


• French Club: Students explore activities that promote French language and culture.


• Creative Writing Club: Girls meet during lunch to work on creative writing pieces. They do a small publication twice a year.


• Crafter's Club: Girls work on a variety of projects including painting, faux marbleizing wooden jewelry boxes, basket-making, etc.


• Scrabble Club: Girls get together and work on their word recall and creativity while playing scrabble.


• Podcasting Club: Girls get together and learn how to use podcasting and netcasting. They record and edit a book club discussion and feed them to other students on the SPSG network.

Upper School

• Academic Club: This club is designed to encourage students to develop skills that are necessary for academic competitions.


• AIDS Awareness Club: This club is designed to make the SPSG community more aware of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They will also raise funds and help local and national AIDS organizations.


• Amnesty International Club: This club seeks to promote and defend global human rights through its status as a registered student group of the larger Amnesty International organization. Activities include letter writing and email campaigns in defense of human rights, interaction with other area student groups, and education about the subject of international human rights both within the group and to the larger school community.





• Black Awareness Club: The Black Awareness Club provides an atmosphere in which students of African-American ancestry and other ethnic groups may engage in meaningful dialogue for the purpose of sharing feelings, ideas, and issues relating to their cultures. The club also seeks to share with the SPSG community various cultural aspects of African-American and other ethnic groups.


• Community Alliance/Student Diversity Leadership Council (SDLC): The Community Alliance/SDLC actively seeks to unite the student body in the effort to increase respect and fairness for all.


• Confetti: This club publishes the literary magazine, Confetti. Throughout the year, members gather, discuss, and vote on the submissions and organize the material into a magazine format. In addition, the club is responsible for organizing activities during Literary Week in April.


• Fighting against Cancer with Treatment (F.A.C.T.): This club raises awareness within the SPSG community of cancer prevention and treatment, raises money for research, and visits cancer patients in local hospitals. Members also provide support to members of the SPSG community who are affected by illness.


• Fellowship Service: Open to all members of SPSG, members share time and serve others within and beyond the school community.





• French Club: Students interested in the French language, food, culture, and other customs are encouraged to be involved in the French Club.


• Gay-Straight Alliance: The GSA is a student-led and student-organized club that aims to create a safe, welcoming, and accepting school environment for all youth, regardless of sexual orientation.


• Green Key Society: Members of this group serve the school community by greeting visitors and serving as tour guides for prospective students and their parents. Important in the daily running of SPSG as well as for special events, the society is open to girls in Grades X-XII.


• Helping Others with Life (H.O.W.L): HOWL is a club with the purpose of increasing environmental awareness throughout the school. Members work at community, national, and even international levels to promote a living environment and a sustainable future. They enjoy participating in clean ups and drives around the community.


• The Green Years: Club members get a chance to learn more about publishing by portraying the school community in our yearbook. Opportunities are available in photography, layout, design, copy writing, and selling of advertisements. The club is open to anyone willing to learn.





• Jewish Awareness Club: JAC shares with the SPSG community aspects of Jewish Culture and religion. JAC also provides a forum for discussion of issues related to the Jewish culture among members of the SPSG community and those of other religious backgrounds.


• Math Club: Math Club’s objectives are to increase enthusiasm for mathematics and to support the upper-school mathematics faculty.


• Model U.N.: Open to all upper-school students, this club studies the actual procedures and topics of the United Nations. Each year the SPSG delegation represents a country at a mock U.N. meeting sponsored by a university.


• Political Activism Club: Political Activism’s purpose is to raise awareness of the nation’s issues to the St. Paul’s community without catering to either end of the political spectrum. All are welcome to participate in debates, political demonstrations, and a generally liberating experience!


• Recycling Club: Students interested in recycling and in helping the environment by supporting the school’s Green School initiative are encouraged to get involved in this club. They also help to empty recycling containers throughout the school.


• SADD: Members of Students against Destructive Decisions are dedicated to educating the community on the dangers of drinking and driving and on encouraging people to think before they act.


• Spirit Club: This club’s goal is to improve school spirit and actively involve all members of the community in all aspects of school.


• Students for Disability Awareness: This club seeks to make students sensitive and aware to the needs of the disabled. It offers opportunities for members to bring to the school sensitivity training and understanding of those with disabilities. It also offers opportunities in academic, service programs, and adaptive sports that non-disabled and disabled students may do together.


• Tutoring Club: The Tutoring Club offers a community service opportunity through a non-profit organization called My Sister’s Circle in which students tutor middle-school girls from Baltimore City.


• World Service Club: This club increases school awareness of the world’s poor and helps to make a difference by sponsoring a child from Thailand by raising money for living and social expenses.