The staff and students of St Paul’s High School are fully committed to promoting and developing the school’s outreach agenda. The school anticipates and promotes educational and charitable relationships, which ensure that pupils have opportunities to make a positive contribution to the local and wider community, including the global community.
During the school year fundraising is organised regularly with many local and national charities receiving significant donations as a result of our students’ hard work and the generosity of the wider community.
A link has been established with St Patrick’s Missionary Society, Kiltegan and with their communities in Londiani, Kenya and São Paolo, Brazil.
To increase civic awareness among students within Sixth Form, an aid mission to the orphanages and hospitals of Romania is organised annually in collaboration with St Patrick’s College, Dungannon and St Patrick’s High School, Lisburn.
Students have the opportunity to work with pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Armagh during our Annual Pilgrimage to Lourdes, and the school assists a community of young people in Bethlehem.
eTwinning, funded by the EU, is a network of schools around Europe collaborating online on common cross- curricular projects.
More than 335,000 teachers from 148,000 schools in 42 European countries are involved in eTwinning and run thousands of projects every year.
In St Paul’s High School, pupils start their international journey by taking part in eTwinning projects which are integrated into the Key Stage 3 curriculum. The school is currently involved in three eTwinning projects involving the French, Spanish, Irish, Art and LLW departments.
Current eTwinning Projects
Postcards for European Day of Languages 2017
In this short project pupils in Years 8 and 9 wrote and exchanged cards in English and in French or Spanish with fifteen other schools, presented their towns and schools in French and participated to a mini-Eurovision competition, which was won by pupils representing St Paul’s. This project was awarded a Quality Label in December 2017 and the project was presented as a sample of good practice in the International School Award Ceremony in November 2017 in Belfast.
Me voilà! Et toi…c’est qui?
This one-year project aims to encourage pupils in 08/49 and 09/A to practice their French on a regular basis enabling the pupils to gain confidence, and to build friendships with students from Germany and Italy while improving their linguistics and digital skills.
‘We are Europe’ is a bi-lingual project in English and French. The project aims to increase awareness among the pupils of the EU, its facts and the history while exploring our own identities. By participating in the project students will develop tolerance across cultures and collaborate with pupils in eight other countries.
